According to every document on your desk, the shelf situation is under control: the planogram locks in 8 facings, the paid share agreement covers 22% of the category, and last week’s field report came back without a single red flag. Then your rep visits the store on a Tuesday and finds 5 facings, a competitor …
A new product launch takes months of preparation and a significant trade budget. Six weeks after hitting the shelf, sell-through is 30% below plan and nobody has a clear explanation. Field audits show the wrong shelf position in half the key accounts, missing promotional pricing in a third, and stock gaps elsewhere. None of this …
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Your company tracks sales by SKU, by store, by hour. You know which products moved yesterday and which did not. But your shelf compliance report is three days old, assembled from handwritten forms, and covers maybe a third of your outlets. That gap is where most merchandising problems go unnoticed the longest: a product out …
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Goods Checker is expanding what it can do with surveillance cameras. Working with AVS Services, we’ve brought new cafe locations in medical facilities and universities online. The solution automatically spots empty spaces on shelves even with constantly changing ready-to-eat assortments and sends staff notifications when products need restocking. For high-traffic locations with short sales windows …
At retail conferences over the past three or four years, technology vendors would regularly take the stage and show cameras reading every SKU on a shelf in real time, robots restocking overnight and dashboards that guided field teams before they even arrived at the store. Almost none of it made it into daily operations. By …
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In 2026, no one accepts “the shelf looks great” as a performance report. Category managers want sell-out data. Commercial directors ask how a planogram change affected gross margin. Sales VPs want to know whether the promo display in Zone B actually moved units. In modern retail, merchandising effectiveness is increasingly measured through revenue contribution, margin …
Picture this: a customer walks into a cafe for their favorite pastry, but it’s not on display — staff didn’t notice the showcase needed restocking. The customer leaves for a competitor, sale lost. Sound familiar? In foodservice, these situations happen constantly. Staff physically can’t simultaneously deliver quality customer service and monitor product availability in displays. …
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Perfect Store programs have been part of FMCG strategy for over two decades. Yet research consistently shows that fewer than one in five companies execute them consistently at scale. This guide breaks down what Perfect Store actually means, why most programs stall, and what it takes to close the gap between the plan and the …
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Every day, thousands of cafes and bakeries are forced to throw away unsold food — sandwiches, croissants, fruits, fresh juices. Restaurants and foodservice businesses worldwide lose up to $2.6 trillion annually due to food waste. Yet every $1 invested in waste reduction returns $14 in savings on purchasing, storage, and disposal of products that get …
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The IBA Ukraine team gave an interview to All Retail, a leading Ukrainian retail publication, discussing how Goods Checker is transforming merchandising across retail. Sergey Baibara, Director of IBA Ukraine, shared the story behind this AI-powered shelf monitoring solution, its real-world results, and the future of computer vision in retail. Until recently, shelf control in …
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