Store Managers
Empowering Store Managers with Focal's Retail Solutions
As a Store Manager, you play a pivotal role in overseeing all aspects of retail operations, from customer service to inventory management. With Focal's innovative solutions, you can revolutionize the way you manage your store, ensuring smoother operations and enhanced efficiency.
The Retail Store Manager's Role:
Store Managers are tasked with the responsibility of maintaining optimal store performance, ensuring customer satisfaction, managing inventory, and maximizing profitability. However, the challenges of supply shortages, labor constraints, and evolving consumer demands can pose significant obstacles to achieving these goals.
Challenges with Legacy Technologies:
Store Managers face numerous challenges in today's retail landscape, including supply shortages, labor constraints, and the need to meet evolving consumer demands. These challenges can hinder operational efficiency, impact customer satisfaction, and ultimately affect the store's bottom line.
Focal Systems' Solution:
Focal offers innovative solutions designed to address the challenges faced by Store Managers. From automated inventory management to adaptable planograms and real-time monitoring capabilities, Focal's solutions empower Store Managers to streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and deliver exceptional customer experiences. With Focal's support, Store Managers can overcome obstacles and drive success in the ever-evolving retail industry..
How it Works
Focal’s Shelf Cameras digitize your sales-floor, backroom, and top-stock hourly
By monitoring your shelves 24/7/365 with enterprise-grade, cost effective AI-powered cameras, we provide accurate and actionable information that feeds FocalOS to “drive” your store for you.
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Focal’s AI detects ins, outs, lows, POG non-compliance, spoiled produce, and more
Focal’s Deep Learning Computer Vision is the most accurate shelf digitalization technology in the world. Trained on over 1.4B labeled images, this is the heart of our secret sauce! First, we remove all “people-pixels” to eliminate all PII (Personally Identifiable Information). Then, we detect ins, outs, lows, POG non-compliance, spoiled produce, and more.
Focal’s easy to use Stocker Action Tool ranks outs by lost sales and empowers stockers to work outs in order of importance
Focal’s Stocker Action Tool is the most easy to use task management system. By “showing” the stockers exactly where to get product in the backroom and guiding them to where to stock it on the salesfloor, and which products to work first, Focal’s Stocker Action Tool leads to huge productivity savings and an increase in employee NPS.
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With FocalOS, you can virtually "teleport" to any store in your chain within seconds
As a leader, being present to witness operations firsthand is crucial—what the Japanese call "Genchi Genbutsu." However, amidst your demanding schedule, this isn't always feasible. Moreover, your team's awareness of your schedule may bias the information you receive upon arrival. Enter FocalOS: imagine visiting all your stores in just an hour, teleporting into any location in seconds to gain a true understanding of operations. With FocalOS, this becomes a reality.
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Cut the manual scan
The first and most obvious benefit of FocalOS for your store is to stop manually scanning your shelves. Focal’s real-time shelf digitization scans your shelves 24 times a day, at higher accuracy than your current system, for half the cost.
There is no more need to rely on manual scanning or on inaccurate Sales-based algorithms. Focal provides the most accurate picture (literally!) of what is actually happening on your shelves in real-time.
Stop chasing ghost inventory
Focal’s Shelf Cameras digitize your entire salesfloor and backroom every hour of the day, and will update IMS based on what it sees. If the cameras, do not see product in the backroom or salesfloor, we zero it out automatically. It does not matter what IMS says. This saves your associates hours each day hunting down ghost inventory and trying to find boxes in the backroom.
Real-Time produce management solutions by Focal"
Efficient fresh produce management is essential to minimize shrinkage. It's a challenging aspect of grocery store operations, requiring constant monitoring of culling, replenishment, and ordering to maintain freshness and prevent waste. With Focal's real-time shelf images and digitization, you gain immediate insights into every store's produce status, ensuring timely replenishment and minimizing out-of-stock instances. This proactive approach helps maintain the freshness and appearance of your produce section while preventing over-ordering and reducing shrinkage.
The most accurate ordering possible
Imagine if you had your team scanning your store every hour of the day, up until cut-off to the warehouse. How much more accurate would your ordering be? That is what Focal’s real-time shelf digitization enables. FocalOS scans your shelves and updates IMS hourly. This prevents over- or under-ordering which drives inventory and shrink down, and labor productivity way up
No more stale task lists
Because Focal’s Shelf Cameras are constantly scanning your shelves, the second an out of stock occurs, Focal detects it, checks your backroom to see if it is “Workable” and then re-prioritizes your stockers task list to ensure they are always working on the most important out of stocks first. This meaningfully increases recouped lost sales per labor hour. No more stale print-outs.
Measure stocker productivity down to the hour
Focal’s real-time shelf digitization detects “restock” events as well. With this information, you can measure each associate’s productivity down to the hour, to ensure every team member is hitting their labor rates consistently. This provides management the information they need to make the right staffing decisions; to praise top performance, and to coach or retrain weaker performers.
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