Compliance
Your POG (planogram) is perfect: every SKU mapped, every facing accounted for, and every promotional slot assigned. On paper, the shelf is exactly where it needs to be. But then a field rep walks into a store three states away, and the shelf tells a completely different story: A competitor’s product has crept into your […]
Augmented Reality
Walk into any grocery store and the shelves look full. But if you’re responsible for what’s on them, “looks full” isn’t good enough. A shelf can appear stocked while hiding one of retail’s most persistent and costly problems: products the system says exist, in locations where they simply aren’t. This is quietly draining revenue from […]
Merchandising
What is Perfect Store Execution? Have you ever gone out of your way to go to your favorite grocery store? Many Americans have, whether it’s for cleanliness, availability of a certain brand, or the offering of essential non-food products. 63% of Americans say that something as simple as a loyalty program influences where they shop. […]
GoSpotCheck by FORM
Image recognition powers everything from facial recognition in airports to object detection on retail shelves, but its precision varies dramatically depending on how it’s trained. Walk into any grocery store, and you’ll find close to 32,000 products competing for inches of shelf space. For Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands, every facing, every label orientation, and […]
GoSpotCheck by FORM
Grocery store operations live and die by two critical metrics: managing labor hours and maintaining strict on-shelf availability. When your teams rely on manual checks, verifying shelf conditions becomes a slow and highly inconsistent process that simply does not scale across hundreds of locations and high-variance departments. Image recognition technology solves this fundamental problem by […]
GoSpotCheck by FORM
Key takeaways Manual retail audits introduce human error, consume significant rep time, and produce stale data that arrives too late for meaningful corrective action Retail image recognition software replaces subjective manual counting with AI-powered, SKU-level shelf analysis A perfect audit is defined not by flawless store conditions, but by a consistent, objective, and action-linked process […]
Augmented Reality
This post was originally published at cloud-awards.com and has since been refreshed for accuracy. Retail shelves are in constant motion. Product placements shift, promotions refresh, and inventory ebbs and flows by the hour. For consumer-packaged goods (CPG) brands and retailers, staying aligned with these rapid changes has long been one of retail’s toughest challenges. Traditional […]
GoSpotCheck by FORM
David Gottlieb, Chief Revenue Officer at FORM, and Jeff Wrona, VP of Product for Image Recognition, recently joined Sri Rajagopalan and Peter V.S. Boudreaux on the CPG Guys podcast to discuss the FORM and Trax Retail merger, the real-world promise of agentic AI, and why flawless in-store execution has never mattered more. Below is an […]
Image Recognition
Key Takeaways Image recognition turns subjective store photos into objective data that brands and retailers can trust as a single source of truth. AI-powered audits eliminate manual counting, allowing field teams to analyze thousands of shelves in seconds rather than hours or days.The technology extends beyond standard shelving to track complex execution points like displays, […]
GoSpotCheck by FORM
All Your Retail Tech Questions, Answered: An Interview with GoSpotCheck VP of Sales Cory Knopp Our VP of Sales, Cory Knopp, recently spoke with Conversations on Retail about the current state of technology in retail, and how our image recognition AI solution is empowering frontline workers and improving profitability. Watch the full video here, and […]
FORM
What’s in Store for Retailers This Year The National Retail Federation’s Retail’s Big Show commenced two weeks ago, but it’s still fresh in our minds. With 40,000 attendees, 6,200 brands, and more than 1,000 other exhibitors, there was a LOT to take away from this event. Alexander Zagvazdin, Ph.D., Chief Product Officer at FORM, shared […]
FORM
Tech Trends for UK Retailers Last week, FORM industry experts and solution engineers attended the Smart Retail Tech Expo in London, where some of the most prestigious brands showcased game-changing retail tech and spoke on the future of the industry. Our team had a great time learning from and connecting with some of the UK’s […]