Brick-and-Mortar & Grocery Retail
Transform physical stores into intelligent digital environments. Maximize shelf availability, eliminate checkout shrink, and understand true customer in-store pathing.
The Problem
Key Challenges on the Ground
How Proglint Solves It
AI Capabilities for Brick-and-Mortar & Grocery Retail
Self-Checkout Loss Prevention
Detect non-scanned items, ticket switching, and bottom-of-basket (BOB) skips.
Cognitive Frictionless Checkout
Barcodeless item recognition & Product Acquisition Box for rapid SKU onboarding.
Real-Time Empty Shelf Detection
Instantly alert store staff to empty shelf gaps.
Trial Room Queue Analytics
Monitor fitting room occupancy and queue wait times.
Thermal Spatial Heatmaps
Track store traffic flow, high-engagement zones, and aisle dwell times.
Operational Workflow
How It Fits Together on the Floor
These capabilities aren't independent features — they cover Brick-and-Mortar & Grocery Retail end to end as one continuous operational thread.
Store Floor
Thermal Spatial Heatmaps track traffic flow, high-engagement zones, and aisle dwell continuously, rather than as a one-off study.
Shelf & Inventory
Real-Time Empty Shelf Detection flags an out-of-stock gap the moment it occurs, independent of when the next scheduled shelf walk happens.
Fitting Rooms
Trial Room Queue Analytics monitors occupancy and wait times at the point where basket abandonment risk concentrates.
Checkout
Self-Checkout Loss Prevention and Cognitive Frictionless Checkout cover both existing barcode-based lanes and barcodeless product recognition at the point of sale.
ROI Framework
The Business Case
A qualitative framework for evaluating impact — no figures are invented; this is how to think about the case until deployment-specific numbers are measured.
Cost of Manual Monitoring
"We already have cameras — why isn't that enough?"
Camera coverage and operational visibility are not the same thing. Footage that is recorded but never analyzed is a passive archive, not a monitoring system — it only becomes useful after an incident is already reported through some other channel, and by then the operational moment has passed. The gap enterprises pay for isn't a lack of cameras; it's the absence of continuous analysis on the cameras already installed.
- Footage shifts from passive, after-the-fact evidence to a continuously analyzed signal.
- Coverage that once required a manual review request becomes visible as it happens.
- Existing camera infrastructure is read in real time instead of archived and overwritten.
Shrink & Revenue Leakage Exposure
"How much of our loss is currently invisible to us?"
Unrecorded voids, un-billed food prep, and self-checkout ticket swapping share a common trait: none of them leave a record in the systems built to catch loss. A POS system can't flag a transaction that never happened. Exposure exists whether or not it is measured — continuous correlation between visual activity and transaction records is what makes it visible and actionable instead of a line item nobody can explain.
- POS-visual discrepancies are surfaced as they occur, not discovered during a reconciliation cycle.
- Loss patterns that don't generate a system record become detectable for the first time.
- Investigation starts from a specific flagged event instead of a general shrink number.
What Changes
Proven Industry Results
Go Deeper
Related Solutions
Smart & Cognitive Checkout
Self-checkout loss prevention and barcodeless cognitive checkout — detecting non-scanned items, ticket switching, and enabling frictionless product recognition.
Shelf Intelligence & Inventory Monitoring
Real-time empty shelf detection and mobile-assisted stock verification to close the gap between what's on the planogram and what's actually on the shelf.
Customer Journey & Spatial Intelligence
Track footfall, visitor demographics, customer bounce, table occupancy, and trial room queue times.
Loss Prevention & Revenue Protection
Flag un-billed food prep, sweethearting, self-checkout shrink, and unauthorized cash till access in real time.
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