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Family Dollar selects dunnhumby for category management and merchandising

AI-powered platforms will help grocer choose which products should be at each store

Bill Wilson, Senior editor at Supermarket News

September 9, 2024

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The tech will allow Family Dollar to make more customer-centric decisions regarding merchandising. Getty Images

Family Dollar has selected customer data science provider dunnhumby as its strategic platform for category management and merchandising collaboration for its network of stores.

 

The tech will allow Family Dollar to make more customer-centric decisions regarding merchandising.

 

“Understanding and listening to what our customers want is at the very core of our mission to meet and exceed the needs of our shoppers,” said Larry Gatta, chief merchandising officer at Family Dollar. “With our new category and merchandising platform … we can tailor and fine tune our assortments to local purchasing preferences to ensure we provide our customers with the products they need at each of our stores.”

 

The Family Dollar category management and merchandising platform will be built on two platforms — dunnhumby Assortment and dunnhumby Shop.

 

Dunnhumby Assortment is an assortment solution that uses AI for predictive analytics to quantify which products should be selected for each store before forecasting the impact of assortment changes across each location.

 

Dunnhumby Shop is a web-based AI-powered tool designed to deliver aggregated insights about shopper behavior and deliver the latest category trends.

 

With this new platform, Family Dollar will be able to localize assortments to deliver its customers the correct assortments within an ideal time frame.

About the Author

Bill Wilson

Senior editor at Supermarket News

Bill Wilson is the senior editor at Supermarket News, covering all things grocery and retail. He has been a journalist in the B2B industry for 25 years. He has received two Robert F. Boger awards for his work as a journalist in the infrastructure industry and has over 25 editorial awards total in his career. He graduated cum laude from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale with a major in broadcast communications.

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