Inventory

Kroger will use RFID sensors to enable item-level digital identification for greater inventory accuracy to enhance freshness, reduce waste and save associates time.

ShopRite stores are using Tally, Simbe’s autonomous item-scanning robot, to enhance inventory and operation insights.

After a successful pilot, SpartanNash will expand the use of Simbe's autonomous inventory robot, Tally, at 60 additional stores.

Following a 20-store pilot, Wakefern will bring Tally robots to more ShopRite stores as a way to reduce out-of-stock rates and free up associates' time for other tasks.

The partnership leverages Acosta's analytics, in-store data and merchandising solutions as well as Pensa’s AI-powered shelf intelligence to provide CPGs and retailers an actual view of shelf inventory.

The Walmart-owned warehouse chain leverages its machine learning forecasting, which considers things like weather, trends, events, holidays, shelf life and proper substitutions down to the hour and club level.

The agreement will launch with KPM feeding its SKU-level store inventory data daily to Omnicom's open operating system.