Whether you manage 10 stores or 1,000, here are the most impactful AI technologies reshaping brick-and-mortar retail today
AI inventory platforms help retailers maintain accurate stock levels, flag anomalies, and reduce losses tied to overstocking, understocking, or phantom inventory.
By analyzing POS transactions, shipment data, and sales velocity, these systems can automatically suggest reorders, identify high-risk SKUs, and highlight discrepancies that signal theft or operational issues.
Many also integrate exception reporting to identify when inventory changes deviate from the norm – like sudden shrinkage in a high-margin category or unusually fast depletion of limited-stock items. These tools support better replenishment decisions while surfacing loss-related red flags that would otherwise go unnoticed.
Computer vision and sensor-driven AI can map how customers navigate your stores – tracking dwell time, foot traffic, and engagement with displays or products. This data can help you optimize store layouts, improve signage placement, and make better merchandising decision.
For example, if AI heatmaps reveal customers consistently skipping a specific section, you now have the data you need to redesign that area, relocate items, or adjust staffing during peak periods.
Solink empowers physical retailers to combat shrink, streamline operations, and improve visibility across all locations through video and data analytics, all without the need to rip and replace their existing hardware.
Solink is more than a video platform, it’s a vision intelligence system that integrates security footage, POS data, and AI to surface real-time insights and automate incident detection.
Solink links your video footage with key store data, making it easy to investigate issues like theft, procedural violations, and cash discrepancies. You can search footage by transaction, keyword, or behavior (e.g., “no-scan at self-checkout”), saving hours of manual review.
With the insights you get from Solink, you can gain complete visibility into what’s working, what’s not and where to act across your business to prevent loss and drive profit margins.
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