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    Use cases, Retail

    Heat Maps in Retail: Understanding Zones of Interest

    Accurate data on store traffic hotspots and low-traffic areas helps retailers make precise decisions on layout and product placement
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    Challenge

    Better understanding the relationship between product placement and sales is a goal of retailers looking to improve conversion rates and space utilization. “Gut feeling” and designating staff to do manual counts with hand-clickers, methods that have guided placement decisions for decades, are woefully outdated. Modern retailers want accessible data on:

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      Footfall trends in different parts of physical locations

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      Product performance data based on positioning changes

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      Responses to product placement based on demographic splits  

    • Accurate Footfall Counting at a Bike Retailer

      Germany's Bike & Outdoor Company (BOC) implemented a Xovis sensor-based system for accurate footfall counting, improving customer analysis and in-store service across multiple locations.
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    Solution

    Actionable insights into store layout and the customer journey based on the popularity of in-store areas at different times accessed as an image including historical traffic flow maps help retailers to:

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      Identify areas with the highest and lowest in-store marketing potential  

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      Planning store layout in response to traffic trends

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      Testing the impact of product positioning, staff adjustment and store concepts 

    Xovis' 3D sensors offer brick-and-mortar stores a competitive edge by hastening the trial-and-error process for improved decisions and higher revenue.

    Olivier Delangre Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, Amoobi

    Benefits

    The real-time and historical data visualized as a traffic flow map help with:

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      Increasing conversion rates: right products, right place, right time 

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      Lowering operating costs: better positioning sales and support resources  

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      Maximizing infrastructure: adjusting staff planning and scheduling at a granular level

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