A camera watches each cooler. The moment a shelf runs out, whoever is on shift is told which door to walk to — by cooler and by shelf. Then the assistant tells you what to order, and how much. No POS integration, no wiring, no training.
Out-of-stocks are not a rounding error, and a shopper who finds your cooler empty rarely waits for you to fill it.
lost by retailers worldwide every year to stockouts — a level that has held for most of the past decade.
of intended purchases are lost when the product a shopper came for is unavailable.
of shoppers go to another store when their usual choice is out; 70% may switch brand.
of sales is what shelf out-of-stocks cost a typical retailer — with earnings per share falling about as much.
They sell fastest, they are bought on impulse, and nobody walks the coolers between rushes. A shelf that empties at 4 pm on a Friday can stay empty until close — that is the window CoolerScout removes.
Every frame becomes history. The assistant learns each shelf's rhythm — which days it empties, how fast it drains after a delivery, what the weather and the weekend do to it — and turns that into an order you can approve in one tap.
“Shelf 4 empties Friday and Saturday evenings — fill it before 5 pm.” Plain sentences, not a dashboard to interpret.
Shelves that never empty are money sitting in the back room. The assistant trims them as readily as it adds.
Tap any recommendation to see the frames it came from. You can always overrule it — and it learns when you do.
Magnet mounted, no drilling and no electrician. The whole setup runs from a phone, including handing the camera your store Wi-Fi.
One tap while the cooler is stocked is the entire calibration. No planogram to upload, no SKU list to maintain, nothing to keep in sync.
Alerts name the cooler and the shelf, once per shelf per hour, only on the transition into empty. Quiet hours keep 3 am off your phone.
Staff turnover is high, so nothing depends on training or remembered convention. Red means go and fill something. No colour means nothing is wrong. A cooler that has gone quiet ranks with the problems, because silence is never good news.
Mount inside the cabinet or on the outside of the door. Frames where a customer is holding the door open are discarded, not counted as an empty shelf.
Most coolers fit a rows-and-columns grid you set in the app. For the ones that don't, drag the regions to match the real shelves.
Coolers group by store, worst first. An owner sees every location in one list; a shift worker sees only the store they are standing in.
A single cooler door turning over one extra case of drinks a week at typical convenience margins pays for the camera watching it. Everything past that — the shelves you stop over-ordering, the customers who stop finding your cooler empty — is upside.
We ship the camera, you stick it on the glass, and at the end of the month you get your own empty-shelf report. Keep it or send it back.