Author name: Nancy J. Miller

Nancy is a Product & Retail Expert on the Goods Checker team at IBA Group, specializing in retail analytics, digital transformation, and AI-driven solutions for the FMCG sector. With 15+ years of experience, she has led product launches, consumer campaigns, and digital automation projects that directly increased sales and operational efficiency for retail clients across Europe. At Goods Checker, Nancy covers topics at the intersection of data and retail practice — from shelf availability and price monitoring to AI-powered assortment management — helping brands turn raw data into real business decisions.

You are a merchandiser. You are responsible for the presentation of goods in stores: layout, placement of advertising materials, monitoring of warehouse stock balance. To provide evidence of the completion of work, you take photos of store racks, generate reports and send them to managers. Stores do not always provide good conditions for taking a …

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Merchandising is an important part of sales. According to statistics, 80% of buyers decide to buy convenience goods while standing near the supermarket shelves. Therefore, manufacturing companies and distributors employ a good pool of merchandisers to ensure that the goods are displayed correctly, and supervisors to monitor this display. But in the real world things …

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