Lipton Fit Cart

The Lipton Green Tea Fit Cart was a “gym on wheels” introduced in supermarkets to encourage healthier lifestyles during everyday grocery shopping. The smart cart tracked distance, steps, calories burned, and time spent in-store, subtly reminding shoppers of their physical activity. By placing simple, relevant health data at the right moment, the idea aimed to disrupt routine behavior and inspire people to make healthier choices—both while shopping and in their daily lives.

Product DesignElectronic Hardware DevelopmentSoftware Development

Services

Experience Design
Hardware Engineering
Software Development

Tech Stack

Microcontroller Integration
Real-time Data Visualisation

Client

Lipton

Timeline

3 Weeks

Year

2016

01/Execution

Execution

We began by replacing regular shopping carts with our Fit Carts in various supermarkets. As part of the shopping process, we saw people conscientiously watch their fitness data accumulate as they pushed faster and shopped longer – all with health in mind. Groceries had a new agenda. The activation became a starting point, triggering what Lipton likes to call ‘#LiveGood reactions’. Once aware of their own natural metabolic function, shoppers took more steps and burned more calories in the supermarket itself. They even opted for greener, healthier, more wholesome foods. The cart was placed in stores delivering an explicit brand encounter, while a digital film was an online tool to further communicate Lipton Green Tea’s ‘Live Good’ message – a low-effort, high-benefit metaphor for its green tea product.

02/Result

Results

Business Growth: 10% FY 2016 Value Market Share: Q4’16 vs Q3’16: +100bps Reach: over 5M unique users, representing 70% of our target audience which is the max you can get on digital. Views: over 3.9M views with a view rate of 17%, 7% higher than average. Engagement: 1.8M engagement Free Press: over USD 300K The campaign, in simple words, was all about having customers push a cardio-customized shopping cart around a grocery store as part of their shopping experience, and observing changes in their health and fitness-related behavior. The cart was placed in stores delivering an explicit brand encounter, while a digital film was an online tool to further communicate Lipton Green Tea’s ‘Live Good’ message – a low-effort, high-benefit metaphor for its green tea product. We needed to find ways for people to easily adopt a healthier lifestyle. We found NEAT. Coined by Dr. James Levine in the early 2000’s, Non Exercise Activity Thermogenesis refers to all that energy expended for everything we do other than sleeping, eating or sports-like exercises. Research found that it plays an important role in weight loss or gain. Simple: if you are conscious about trivial everyday activities that require expending energy and embrace as much of them as you can, you are already living a healthier life. We then started analyzing the impact of wearables like Fitbit had on people. we found that users of this devices were extremely conscious about the amount of calories they were burning. If they didn’t consume a lot of energy in exercises, their diet for the day and choices would change. Our concept: Simple choices are the first step to a healthier lifestyle.

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