The Digital Shopkeeper: How Ocado Retail Activates the Online Shelf to Drive Discovery
For eCommerce, merchandising, trading, and digital product teams that want to make their websites easier to shop, more engaging for customers, and stronger commercially. While in-store shoppers naturally browse, online shoppers are highly direct, fast, and hyper-focused on their favorite items. They aren’t scrolling through your entire catalog. In this solo session, Katy from Ocado Retail will share how the merchandising team moves beyond maintaining a static storefront to actively disrupting the customer journey and driving genuine discovery, basket growth and commercial impact.
What you can expect to takeaway:
- How to use onsite merchandising to support real customer missions, not just product visibility
- Practical examples from Ocado Retail, including what New & Trending section can teach other retailers about discovery, inspiration and basket-building
- How to balance customer experience, trading priorities and commercial performance when optimising an eCommerce site

