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Placer.ai White Paper Recap – September 2024

Discover the impact that wellness clinics can have on grocery stores in our latest white paper recap.

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Lila Margalit
September 26, 2024
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In September 2024, Placer.ai released two white papers: The Healthcare Opportunity in Grocery and Pricing Strategies Driving Restaurant Visits in 2024. Below is a taste of our findings from The Healthcare Opportunity in Grocery – which dove into the data to explore the impact that wellness offerings can have on grocery store visitation patterns.

Uncovering the Healthcare Opportunity in Grocery

Today, many grocery stores offer a range of services – from primary and urgent care to dental and mental health care. In addition to providing an important community service, in-store clinics can boost foot traffic at chains, help health providers reach more patients, and allow shoppers to manage their health and home needs in one convenient trip. 

Health Clinics Lead to Healthy Foot Traffic Boosts

Analyzing foot traffic to grocery stores with and without in-store clinics shows that across chains, locations with on-site healthcare offerings drew more visits in H1 2024 than their chain-wide averages.

The Kroger Co., for example, has been a leader in in-store healthcare services since the early aughts. The company introduced its in-store medical center, The Little Clinic in 2003 – and today operates over 225 Little Clinic locations across its Kroger banner, as well as regional chains Dillons, Jay C Food Stores, Fry’s, and King Soopers.

And in H1 2024, the eight Dillons locations with clinics saw, on average, 93.0% more visits per location than the chain’s banner-wide average. Jay C, which offers two in-store clinics, also saw visits to these venues outpace the H1 2024 banner-wide average by 92.9%. For both chains, relatively small overall footprints may contribute to their outsize visit differences: Indiana-focused Jay C operates just 22 locations, all in the Hoosier State, while Kansas-based Dillons has some 64 locations.  

But similar patterns, if somewhat less pronounced, could be observed at Kroger (43.0%), Fry’s (19.2%), and King Soopers (16.5%) – as well as at H-E-B (14.5%), which boasts its own expanding network of in-store clinics. 

Convenience for All: Clinics Draw Families

An analysis of household compositions across the potential and captured markets of Kroger-owned stores with and without Little Clinic offerings suggests that families with children are extremely receptive to these services. 

In H1 2024, Kroger, King Soopers, Fry’s, Jay C, and Dillons all featured captured markets with higher shares of STI: PopStats’ “Households With Children” segment than their potential ones – highlighting the chains’ appeal for families. But the share of parental households in those stores with Little Clinics jumped significantly higher for all five banners. 

The share of families with children in King Soopers’ overall captured market stood at 28.3% in H1 2024, higher than the 27.2% in its potential one. But the households with children in the captured markets of King Soopers locations with Little Clinics was significantly higher – 30.6% – and similar patterns emerged at Jay C, Dillons, Kroger, and Fry’s. 

This special draw is likely linked to the clinics' focus on family health services like physicals, nutrition plans, and vaccines. The convenience of being able to take care of healthcare, grocery shopping, and pharmacy needs all in one go makes these stores particularly attractive to parents. And this jump in foot traffic shows the strategic advantage of incorporating healthcare services into the retail environment.

Read the full report here to learn more about the impact of healthcare services on grocery visits and customer loyalty. Are shoppers more or less likely to make repeat visits to grocery stores with healthcare services? And how does the addition of a clinic affect the demographic profile of a grocery store’s captured market

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