More customers online
Through a number of years, Coop have sold nonfood products online at www.coop.dk and, at the same time, sold fast-moving consumer goods through www.irma.dk with great success. Seeing as Vertica developed irma.dk, we have gathered knowledge about online sale of fast-moving consumer goods. Thus, it was an obvious choice for Coop to continue the collaboration with Vertica, as they wished to expand their business with an online supermarket and deliver a wider range of fast-moving consumer goods to Danes all across the country.
Coop needed an e-commerce solution that worked in close interaction with their logistical setup. With more than 8,000 products to be delivered door-to-door in different time slots, the logistics for freight and delivery have to function frictionless.
At the same time, Coop wanted to create a user-friendly and intuitive experience for the customer, where the focus is on the well-known Coop brand and the shopping experience. Thus, Vertica used the latest frontend technologies and user optimised design in order to develop a user-friendly site that visually reminds the customers of the Coop, they know.
Online supermarket with more than 8,000 fast-moving consumer goods and 25 specialty stores
With the new Coop.dk the customers will get a wider range of fast-moving consumer goods than ever before online, as the new webshop offers 8,000 products. With their new online supermarket Coop wish to obtain a wider reach through a concept that appeals to a larger part of the population than the previous irma.dk. This means that Coop always offers at least 500 of the most popular products to a set, low price that matches the prices in the discount stores. The products are the same as the ones the customers know from Coop’s stores, so they get all the best from Coop in one solution.
At the same time, Irma has now been integrated into the site along with 24 other specialty stores that offer everything from delicacies to organic or lactose free products.
In the specialty stores, the customers can click and visit each unique store where they solely find products from for instance Meyers, Änglamark, Thise and Urtekram. The 25 specialty stores each have their own individual visual expression.
The Coop membership programme is also an integrated part of the new solution. Today, Coop has more than 1.6 million members who earn points and receive membership advantages when shopping on the new digital platform. Just like in the physical Coop stores.
The intuitive shopping experience
A team of Vertica’s graphical designers, UX-consultants and frontend developers have worked closely with Coop to create an intuitive shopping experience for the customers. The new site is characterised by a number of user-friendly features, including an intelligent search engine, auto-suggest when searching, facetted search and clear product categories so that the customer can find the desired products with only a few clicks.
The site saves the customer’s top 100 products so that it is easy to fill the basket with the most popular products with only a single click. At the same time, the site has a clear checkout flow where the customer can easily see and edit his shopping list and choose time of delivery for his postcode. The entire customer journey has been integrated, so that it is easy for the customer to add or edit to his order all the way up until delivery.
Thomas Lyst
Director of Loyalty at Coop Mad
Flexible platform and user-friendly CMS
First mover on e-commerce for fast-moving consumer goods
In 2015, Coop won the e-commerce award for their e-commerce with fast-moving consumer goods with the explanation that they challenge their own industry. Coop lives up to this by launching an online supermarket as the first traditional supermarket chain in Denmark.
By being a first mover and leading the way, Coop hope that they can contribute to setting the Danish market for online sales of fast-moving consumer goods in motion.
The solution is optimised for grocery shopping and, at the same time, makes it easy and convenient for customers all over the country to shop from home with delivery straight to their door.
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