This webinar series is dedicated to the latest advancements in grocery technology and will dive deep into the tools and innovations shaping the future of grocery retail, offering independent retailers actionable insights to stay competitive.
Is Your California Grocery Store Ready for the AI Revolution?
In today’s fiercely competitive grocery market, staying ahead means embracing cutting-edge technologies that fuel growth and elevate the customer experience. This exclusive webinar is your gateway to understanding the transformative power of AI and how it’s reshaping the grocery industry.
For years, AI felt out of reach for many grocers—whether large national chains, regional operators, or independent stores. But that’s changing. Today, AI is more accessible than ever, offering powerful tools to streamline operations, personalize customer engagement, and drive profitability.
This insightful session will demystify AI and show you how to harness its potential in your store. You’ll walk away with practical strategies, real-world examples, and actionable insights to kickstart your AI journey.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
- The AI Opportunity: Understand the financial impact of AI in grocery and why early adoption is key to staying competitive.
- Hyper-Personalization: Learn how to deliver tailored shopping experiences that boost loyalty and increase sales.
- Smart Assortment Planning: Explore AI-powered demand forecasting and inventory management to cut waste and improve efficiency.
- Waste Reduction: Explore AI-powered demand forecasting and inventory management to cut waste and improve efficiency.
- AI Smart Food Program: See how AI identifies surplus food and redirects it to CalFresh beneficiaries—helping you grow revenue, reduce waste, and expand access to fresh, nutritious food.
FEATURED SPEAKERS: Keith Taylor, Customer Solutions Executive @ r4 Technologies, Alberto Escalante, Solution Architect @ r4 Technologies
July 9, 2025
Unlocking Growth: How Shopper Data, Rewards, and Text Messages Drive Sales
Vori’s Free Privacy Policy Template
Standing out as an independent grocery store is more crucial than ever in today’s ultra competitive retail landscape. With price-sensitive and store-hopping shoppers that have endless choices for where to buy food and essentials, how do you ensure your store remains top-of-mind? The answer lies in the power of modern shopper loyalty programs and mobile marketing, and how you prepare your store and shoppers for these revenue increasing solutions.
For decades, advanced shopper engagement tactics—like digital loyalty programs, email, and SMS text message marketing—seemed out of reach for small and medium-sized independent grocers, and often considered exclusive to big box retailers and grocers with dedicated marketing personnel and IT resources. However, the tide has changed.
Today, even single owner-operators are successfully harnessing the same technologies and strategies of their larger counterparts, and transforming fair-weather shoppers into reliable levers of business growth, all without overburdening their existing staff.
Join CGA, Vori, IGA, and Ava’s Market for a webinar where you’ll learn how the most innovative California grocery stores prepared for and implemented loyalty programs and shopper engagement strategies that are increasing sales and boosting foot traffic with minimal effort.
WEBINAR HIGHLIGHTS:
- State of the Industry: Expert insights into shoppers’ price-sensitivities and why they are adopting new behaviors.
- Loyalty Program Preparation: A pre-loyalty playbook, featuring Ava’s Downtown Market & Deli’s successful loyalty program campaign to drive their first 1000 sign-ups.
- Personalization & Calculating Rewards for Profitable Programs: Tips for segmenting shoppers, selecting reward items, calculating points and discounts, and shopper communication practices and messages to maximize ROI.
- Shopper Data Privacy & Compliance: Best practices for collecting, managing, and using individual consumer data effectively and ethically. Receive a FREE privacy policy template.
PRESENTERS: Simone Hadley Wilson, Head of Marketing @ Vori, Sarah Rivers, Director of Digital and eCommerce Programs @ IGA, Jason Green, Founding Product Manager of POS @ Vori, Clinton Blackburn, Staff Software Engineer @ Vori, Juan Origel, Owner, Ava’s Downtown Market & Deli
October 30, 2024