Win Today's Back-To-School Shopper 10/7/2016
NPD Office Supplies Industry Analyst Leen Nsouli discusses the back-to-school season and how K-12 shoppers differ from college shoppers. These insights can help you target specific demographics based on their in-store preferences.
Here are some highlights:
- Back-to-school makes up 35% of dollar sales that are done during the year in the office supplies category.
- Back-to-school brings in a variety of shoppers including moms, dads and teachers.
- The K-12 shopper is looking for a well stocked school supply section, quality school supplies and the store advertised brands and prices.
- The collage shopper is looking for other products across multiple departments i.e. dorm room.
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