Turning Retail Analytics into Measurable Skill Growth

84.51° is a retail data science, insights and media company. They help Kroger, consumer packaged goods companies, agencies, publishers and affiliates create more personalized and valuable experiences for shoppers across the path to purchase. Powered by cutting-edge science, they utilize first-party retail data from over 62 million U.S. households sourced through the Kroger Plus loyalty card program to fuel a more customer-centric journey using 84.51° Insights, 84.51° Loyalty Marketing and our retail media advertising solution, Kroger Precision Marketing. Summary As 84.51° grew, it became more difficult to identify critical skill gaps, offer career mobility opportunities, and articulate learning ROI across its diverse workforce. The L&D team within data science saw an opportunity to leverage a data-driven approach to align learning goals with business goals, standardize skills, and scale up workforce development. To help achieve these goals, 84.51° turned to Degreed to harness its potential to unify resources, making the delivery of learning content much more targeted, and to enable data-driven decision-making at scale. Gamified badging programs, quarterly learning themes, and API-powered skill insights made possible by Degreed led to more employee engagement, increased efficiencies, and quantifiable business impacts.

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