Related
E+T Magazine

Morrisons has begun trialling robots in select stores that roam the aisles to monitor how products are being displayed on shelves.

The Tally robots, developed by California-based company Simbe, have been deployed at three stores – in Wetherby, Redcar and Stockton.

Tally is able to automate the tedium of scanning store shelves to conduct product audits. The roughly 1.5m tall robot traverses store aisles to carry out inventories of the shelves and floor displays, delivering real-time data about mispriced products and stock shortages.

The platform integrates multiple advanced sensing technologies – including computer vision cameras, RFID readers and precision depth sensors – to create a complete digital twin of the retail environment. As Tally traverses store aisles, this multi-sensor array captures and processes up to 30,000 products per hour, detecting out-of-stock products, pricing errors and misplaced items with exceptional accuracy.

Simbe’s AI-powered analytics engine then synthesises...

Click here to read the full article

  • After my retirement I took a part time job doing inventory audits, usually conducted after the store had closed for the day. I counted dog's pig ears in a pet store, women's underwear in a department store, PVC piping and wood in a hardware store, and CD's, LP records at a book store. I really doubt that Tally audit robots would be able to handle all these types of products. Here in the US, the big box food stores effectively sell locations. "End caps" at eye level are the highest priced location. For products like Beer, the manufacture's representative comes into the store with new stock, sets up displays, conducts a physical audit and restocks when necessary, and removes old stock, all with no direct cost to the store . Peter Brooks Palm Bay FL

Community Rules & Guidelines