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CPG & Consumer Goods

From shelf to shopper: understand the full journey

~71.5M
CPG Daily Active Users
Retailer-Level
Granularity
Daily
CPG Feed
Multi-Channel
Attribution

Overview

Gain visibility into where consumers shop, what drives purchase decisions, and how your brand performs at the retail shelf. GSDSI helps CPG brands, distributors, and category managers optimize distribution strategy, measure promotional lift, and understand competitive share with real-world behavioral data.

GSDSI (Global Source Data Solutions Inc.) serves consumer packaged goods brands, distributors, and category managers with a shopper-journey stack anchored by ~71.5M daily active users generating ~390M purchase signals per day across 40+ CPG categories: complemented by device-level foot-traffic signals, 23M+ U.S. POIs, and the Euclidean Feed for CTV-to-purchase closed-loop attribution. Consumer packaged goods brands operate in one of the most competitive retail environments, where shelf space is finite, brand loyalty is declining, and the path to purchase increasingly spans digital and physical channels. GSDSI gives CPG companies the data infrastructure to understand the full shopper journey, from CTV ad exposure and online product research to in-store visits and actual purchase events. Our CPG Feed delivers SKU-level transaction data across 40+ product categories, so brand managers can track market share trends, measure promotional lift, and analyze brand-switching behavior at the retailer and channel level. When combined with our location intelligence products, CPG teams can answer questions that purchase data alone cannot: Which retailers are gaining or losing foot traffic? How does a competitor's store opening affect visitation to your key retail partners? Are consumers who see your CTV ads more likely to visit stores that carry your products? The Euclidean Feed connects these signals by deterministically linking CTV ad exposure to store visits and product purchases, providing true closed-loop measurement for media investment. Category managers use these integrated insights to optimize trade promotion spending, negotiate shelf space allocation with data-backed performance evidence, and identify high-potential distribution expansion opportunities based on actual consumer demand patterns.

Fast path (pilot)

If you’re evaluating this vertical, start with a matched sample and a success threshold that’s specific to your cohort and geography.

What to request

  • Schema + join keys (what you can actually connect to).
  • Refresh cadence + change control expectations.
  • Governance: exclusions, retention, deletion SLAs.

Provenance & compliance

If this use case touches sensitive categories or regulated outcomes, align on permitted uses and enforced exclusions before scaling volume.

Challenges We Solve

Limited visibility into actual shopper behavior at the store and category level
Measuring the impact of trade promotions and media campaigns on in-store traffic
Understanding brand-switching behavior and competitive share of wallet
Optimizing distribution and retail partnerships based on actual demand signals

How GSDSI Helps

Shopper Journey Analytics

Track how consumers move between retailers, channels, and categories to understand the full path to purchase.

Promotional Lift Measurement

Measure the incremental foot traffic and store visits generated by trade promotions, coupons, and media campaigns.

Competitive Share Analysis

Benchmark your brand's retail presence and shopper traffic against competitors at the store, chain, and market level.

Distribution Optimization

Identify high-potential retail locations and under-penetrated markets using actual shopper mobility data.

Ready to get started?

Request a custom quote tailored to your cpg & consumer goods data needs.

Frequently asked questions about CPG & Consumer Goods

How do CPG brands use GSDSI?

Audience definition (household demographic and lifestyle segmentation), new-customer prospecting (lookalike modeling off best-customer seeds), cross-retailer attribution (loyalty + location + identity), category-level competitive transaction benchmarking via the CPG feed (~71.5M DAUs, ~390M purchase signals daily), and retailer-media supplementary targeting.

Can GSDSI data be activated to retailer-media networks?

Yes, to the major retailer-media networks where they accept third-party audience activation, via hashed-identifier handoff or clean-room delivery. Specific retailer compatibility is scoped per use case during onboarding.

What about purchase-history data?

Item-level (where SKU is captured) and basket-level transaction signals from the CPG feed. The proportion of SKU-level coverage varies by retailer and category, full coverage detail is shared during sample evaluation. For receipt-image data, GSDSI works with partners on a per-engagement basis.

Can audiences be built from household composition?

Yes. Household composition (presence of children by age, multi-generational households, household size, marital status proxies) is a standard attribute set on the consumer file. Useful for category-targeting (baby care, pet care, multi-generational nutrition).

Is direct-mail activation supported?

Yes, postal-keyed audiences delivered to direct-mail-service-provider partners are a standard deliverable, including suppression-list handling and state-specific deliverability rules. Often paired with the CPG and identity feeds for closed-loop measurement.

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