Game launches interactive stores

“Shopper focused assistance in navigating and selecting brands is what Gameactive is all about,” says Tyronne Viera, national merchandising director at Mass Discounters. “One-on-one help that is friendly and informed energises brands and adds to the shopping experience in our stores whether people are buying nappies, chocolate, toys or a cellphone.”

The team of special assistants help brand owners to evolve a creative approach to promoting their products and integrating the plan with the marketing, merchandise and operations teams to ensure a seamless execution and measurement of promotion success.

The service has a flexible design to create brand awareness, build and enhance brand positioning and point of difference, educate shoppers about new formats, new products, re-launches, explain brand benefits and drive sales volumes.

“Christmas is around the corner and most brand owners and retailers are already gearing up for the busiest shopping period of the year,” says Viera. “Companies need to maximise their sales volumes in a tough economy with an industry generally characterised by lower volumes and tighter margins. Gameactive is designed to help them achieve exactly that and equip teams by recruiting, training, attiring and developing interactive and proactive brand ambassadors as opposed to straightforward brand promoters.”

The Gameactive service also ensures full supervision to provide quantitative and qualitative feedback that is essential to making improvements and ensure success.

The Sales Tracker component of the service will track a number of achievement values before, during and after promotions.