Time Travel Store Checks

The shelf is where the story happens.

It’s where shoppers decide, competitors clash, and perfectly crafted category strategies either come to life… or quietly fall apart. And while most teams spend their time staring at dashboards and POS reports, the truth is that the shelf moves faster than the data. Planograms drift. Displays vanish. Prices change. Out-of-stocks show up. Store teams improvise. And by the time your numbers tell you something changed, you’re already late to the plot twist.

That’s why we wrote this white paper.

Time Travel Store Checks explores a new way to do an old (and wildly valuable) job: store checks, but supercharged with crowdsourcing and AI. Instead of being limited to the same few stores around the corner, imagine having a searchable, scrollable visual archive of your category across your entire retail network. The ability to “fly” store to store from your laptop. The power to rewind the shelf and see exactly what your shoppers were seeing.

In this report, we break down what it takes to consistently capture high-quality in-store photos over time, how AI can extract meaningful metadata from those images, and what you can do with it all once it’s indexed. You’ll learn how time-travel store checks can help teams track planogram compliance, monitor competitive moves, validate promotional execution, and uncover early patterns behind sales lifts (or sudden drops) before they show up in lagging data sources.

Download the white paper to explore why visual retail intelligence may be the next major advantage for Category Managers, and how the industry is just beginning to unlock what’s possible.