Beyond the Yellow Label: Transforming Retail Operations with Smart Technology

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Tom Coe, VP of Growth at Retail Insights, shares how data-driven solutions can tackle the perennial challenges of retail operations while empowering store colleagues to deliver better customer service

• Retail Insight provides in-store operations analytics software for over 50,000 stores globally
• The complexity of modern retail operations creates compliance challenges as colleagues juggle multiple responsibilities
• Process execution suffers when labour models are tight and colleagues are overwhelmed with competing priorities
• Date checking for fresh products exemplifies a mundane but critical process where poor execution leads to waste and financial loss
• Smart systems can track inventory expiration dates and direct colleagues to check only specific items requiring attention
• Data collected provides valuable analytics for head office teams to improve forecasting, ranging, and supply chain decisions
• Successful AI implementation in retail requires balancing technological sophistication with practical simplicity
• Data quality is essential for any effective retail technology solution
• Future applications include democratizing analytics through conversational AI and enhancing root cause analysis

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Chapters

1. Beyond the Yellow Label: Transforming Retail Operations with Smart Technology (00:00:00)

2. Introduction to Tom Coe (00:00:09)

3. Retail Insight's Analytics Solutions (00:03:19)

4. The Compliance Challenge in Retail (00:06:04)

5. Date Checking Process Example (00:10:09)

6. Technology Solutions for Compliance (00:15:31)

7. AI in Retail: Successes and Failures (00:18:14)

8. Future of AI in Retail Operations (00:24:29)

9. Closing Remarks and Contact Information (00:28:01)