Camera recognition system tackles empty shelves...
By Nick Heath, 31 January 2008 15:42
The technology is currently ready to pilot and Accenture is in discussions with retailers and consumer packaged goods companies, which can lose up to 25 per cent of their investment in product compliance agreements by items being in the wrong place.
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1. Ollie Clark
Have Accenture actually asked any retailers if they want or need a system like this? When I worked in Tesco, we had an amazing system of informing the shelf stackers that shelves needed filling. They walked around whilst they were filling shelves, took a note of empty shelves and then went to get some stock to fill them up. I can't see any advantages this system has over that and it's going to cost a lot more than paying shelf stackers to look at shelves.