Case 07 · Grocery Gateway · Longo's Speculative Work · Strategy & Planning Boot Camp, Miami Ad School Toronto, 2019

Time Saved Is Time Gained

Before Covid changed habits, this strategy tried to change behaviours.
Category entry strategy for an untried behaviour · Strategist — Campaign & Behavioural Strategy

95% of Canadians hadn't tried online grocery delivery. The barrier wasn't trust — it was imagination.

The Brief

95% of Canadians hadn't tried online grocery delivery. Not because the product was bad — but because they hadn't framed their existing grocery shopping as a problem worth solving.

The Pivot

Standard category entry strategy introduces the new behaviour by selling its benefits. The more powerful move is to make the current behaviour feel costly first — then the alternative becomes obvious.

The Execution

"What if you could add 5 days to your life?" A campaign that quantified the time cost of grocery shopping across a year, then reframed that time as recoverable. Microsite, print, OOH, and Instagram stories.

"Nobody thought grocery shopping was a problem. The strategy's job was to make them feel what it was costing them before offering the solution."
The Solution

A behaviour-change campaign built around the hidden cost of the status quo. The pandemic proved the insight right. The campaign proved it first.

Category EntryBehavioural ChangeCampaign LeadershipDigital StrategyCanada
The Work, Shown
Grocery Gateway — Campaign Creative 1
Campaign Creative 1
Grocery Gateway — Campaign Creative 2
Campaign Creative 2
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