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Hear From Shoppers Before a Launch, Not After.

Tracking says the line is down nine per cent. It does not say the new cap looks like the own-brand one, or that the size people wanted was never on the shelf. Interview hundreds of your shoppers at once, in their own language, and get the reasons back ranked, with the quotes behind them.

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Where 8x Research helps consumer brands & retail

  • 01

    Packaging & launches

    Put a new pack, format or flavour in front of hundreds of shoppers before it goes to print, not after the first month of sell-through.

  • 02

    Why shoppers switch

    Find out what someone bought instead of you, and what made them reach for it.

  • 03

    New markets

    Hear how a market you have not launched in yet talks about the category, in its own language.

What a study looks like for consumer brands & retail

01

What could we learn?

The part a sales report leaves out.

  • Packaging & launches: what shoppers notice, mistake it for, or walk past, while there is still time to change it.
  • Why shoppers switch: what they bought instead, and whether it was price, availability or something they will not say in a survey.
  • New markets: how a category is talked about somewhere you do not sell yet, before you commit to a launch.
  • Campaign response: what people took from the ad, as opposed to what the brief intended.
02

Who would we speak to?

The people who actually hold the product.

  • Your own customers, invited by email or a link after a purchase.
  • Shoppers in the category who buy somebody else, recruited for the study.
  • Lapsed buyers, interviewed while they still remember why they stopped.
  • People in a market you are considering, interviewed in their own language.
03

What would we get back?

Reasons, ranked, with the words people used.

  • Themes ordered by how often and how strongly they came up, each opening onto the quotes behind it.
  • Verbatims you can put straight in front of a brand team or a retailer.
  • What the study could not settle, named rather than rounded up.

An example study

“Why is the new pack selling in one market and not the other?”

THE RESEARCH
Two hundred shoppers in both markets, interviewed in their own language about what they picked up, what they put back, and what they thought this was when they first saw it.
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
The reasons ranked per market, with the quotes behind each, including the one nobody had considered: in the second market the new cap reads as the own-brand version.

How 8x works with you

We shape the study with you, speak to the right people, and bring back findings and recommendations you can act on.

  1. 01 / SPOT

    Start from the number that moved.

    A line that slipped, a launch that did not land, a market behaving differently from the rest. Bring the question rather than a questionnaire.

  2. 02 / FRAME

    Say it in your own words.

    Describe what you need to know and who you need to hear from. The study builder drafts the objectives, the screener and the interview, and asks only what it cannot work out.

  3. 03 / ASK

    Hundreds of shoppers at once.

    Interviews run in parallel, by voice or text, in the language each person actually speaks. The AI follows up when an answer is thin, which is where the real reason usually is.

  4. 04 / FIND

    Reasons, ranked.

    Themes come back ordered by weight of evidence, each one opening onto the passages that produced it, so a finding can be checked rather than taken on trust.

  5. 05 / TEST

    Ask again after the change.

    Run the same study after the new pack, price or campaign is live, and compare it with what people said the first time.

Less second-guessing.
More understanding.

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