The retail media consortium for regional grocery and convenience stores

How it started

The year was 2022—everyone was talking about cookie deprecation and the rise of retail media networks, and you couldn’t open LinkedIn or read an article online without coming across it. Anyone with an audience was trying to figure out how to bring more relevant advertising to their customer base.

Over in Los Angeles, the Bridg team was doing what it does best–converting our customers’ transactional and loyalty data into 2-3x larger reachable audiences than they previously could identify.

With Bridg’s mission to drive indisputable revenue, our team, along with retailers and consumer brands, began exploring questions like, “What if we could leverage this first-party data in other ecosystems?” and “Who would use and benefit from it?”

How it’s going

In August 2023, Rippl was announced. The first retail media consortium for regional grocery and convenience stores starting with inaugural partners Schnucks and National Retail Solutions [NRS].

In early 2024, Wegmans, PDI Technologies, and Giant Eagle joined the mix pushing Rippl to over 70M shopper profiles.

In Summer 2024, Rippl’s audiences became available on syndicated marketplaces such as LiveRamp, The Trade Desk, and Yahoo!.

In Fall 2024 we welcomed Lowes Foods, GoPuff, BevMo, Associated Food Stores, and KwikTrip to the network.

In December 2024 Rippl surpassed 100M unique shopper profiles, making us the ONLY retail media consortium for regional grocery and convenience stores to reach scale.

And as of March 2025, we've reached over 130M profiles, welcoming new partners like Coburns and Brookshires while adding extended purchaser audiences, giving advertisers access to segments that truly reflect their target demographics!

Our partnership with Rippl is a powerful one: The combination of Rippl's deterministic purchase data and our supply-side curation capabilities enables buyers to reach highly targeted audience segments that align with their campaign objectives.
Brian Chisholm
SVP of Strategic Partnerships
,
OpenX
Rippl is differentiated by its behavioral insights into deterministic purchasers and hard-to-reach channels, including regional grocery and convenience stores. By adding these unique audiences to the LiveRamp Data Marketplace, advertisers can improve discovery and access to quality data, helping them fill gaps in customer intelligence and improve campaign performance.
Tore Tellefsen
VP & GM of Marketplace
,
LiveRamp
“We are thrilled to partner with Rippl, a first-of-its-kind collaboration for regional retailers and advertisers. Giant Eagle takes a customer-first approach to everything we do, and working with Rippl is helping Leap achieve winning outcomes for customers, CPG partners, and for our brand. Rippl allows us to do this while upholding Leap’s ongoing commitment to prioritizing consumers’ data privacy.”
Justin Weinstein
Executive Vice President of Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer
,
Giant Eagle
“At Universal Media Inc., we are proud to provide our clients with a data-driven, consumer-centric approach that boosts their return on advertising spend. We are confident that Rippl’s unparalleled SKU-level first party data footprint across regional retailers will be a valuable addition to our existing offering, and will ensure that our clients are benefitting from multi-retailer campaigns with consistent measurement and maximum impact.”
Anne Carnathan
President & CEO
,
Universal Media
“National Retail Solutions (NRS) is focused on arming independent retailers with innovative solutions to compete with larger chain stores, and we see Rippl as an exciting addition that is highly aligned with our mission. Advertisers will leverage shopper data from our 20,000+ convenience store partners across the U.S., helping them uncover insights from audiences that are often difficult to reach. Our retailer partners will benefit from advertiser investments that drive increased visits and spend.”
Eli Korn
Chief Operating Officer
,
National Retail Solutions (NRS)
“Rippl is a game-changing introduction to the market that gives our advertiser partners a level of granularity and transparency to their shopper data that is far beyond what they are receiving from their existing investments in retail data and media. Rippl will forge productive new partnerships between regional retailers like Schnucks and some of the most prominent advertisers today, improving the shopper experience, unlocking new revenue streams, and resulting in a win for all involved parties.”
Tom Henry
Chief Data and Deputy Chief Information Officer
,
Schnucks Markets

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