Schnuck Markets, a US family-owned grocery retailer, has announced an industry-first chainwide expansion with Simbe Robotics to further elevate the grocer’s business operations and customer experience.
The multi-year full-scale roll-out will bring Tally robots to all 111 Schnucks locations across the USA, reportedly making Schnucks the first grocer in the world to utilise AI-powered inventory management technology at scale.
By incorporating Simbe’s solution into chain-wide operations, Schnucks should gain greater visibility into store conditions, with deeper levels of business insights.
“We are facing a ‘new normal’ in the grocery industry, and Tally has been instrumental to ensuring we continue to provide an exceptional store experience while rising to meet new operational challenges,” said Dave Steck, vice president of IT infrastructure and application development, Schnucks.
“By deploying Tally to all stores, we are fully operationalising these insights into our supply chain and expanding our ability to leverage real-time data to make revenue impacting decisions.
“Tally has become an integral component of our stores, streamlining operations and ultimately creating a better store experience for our customers and teammates.”
Schnucks first piloted Tally in July 2017 and expanded to additional stores in 2018 and 2020. Tally traverses store aisles up to three times per day and autonomously captures on-shelf data including inventory position, price accuracy, and promotional execution.
Additional benefits of Tally include detecting 14 times more addressable out-of-stocks than manual scans; enabling a 20-30% reduction in out-of-stock items; increased price tag and promotional execution compliance in stores across tens of thousands of products per day; and increased accuracy of real-time inventory integrated into Schnucks’ automated replenishment system, streamlining ordering and ensuring store shelves are restocked quicker to meet customer needs.
