Retail Data Collection

Real-Time Retail Data Insights and Actionable Results

Traditional retail data collection is time-consuming, error-prone, and challenging to scale. Without real visibility, decisions about inventory, displays, promotions, and staffing are often guesswork. That means missed sales, excess costs, and inconsistent shopper experiences.

Driveline’s advanced tech stack captures and visualizes complex retail data with over 95% accuracy, allowing you to spot trends, address issues, and optimize outcomes instantly. We deliver verified shelf-level insights powered by AI, image recognition, and automation to accelerate performance. From identifying out-of-stocks to capturing promo compliance, we collect and provide the data that fuels fast, profitable action. 

What You Can Do With Advanced Data Visualization Tools

With decades of field experience and cutting-edge technology, Driveline gives retailers and brands a clearer view of what’s really happening in-store. Explore how you can use retail data insights.

Planogram Compliance and Reset Readiness

Accurate product placement is critical to reset success, and Driveline ensures it’s done right the first time. AI-powered shelf imaging captures detailed visual data across thousands of stores to verify planogram execution and fixture compliance. 

Our proprietary workflow platform, SmartPMX, alerts teams to discrepancies and enables rapid issue resolution for fewer reworks, better compliance, and faster resets that stay on schedule.

New Product and Promotion Visibility

Using image recognition and location-based tracking, Driveline confirms new product cut-ins, promotional displays, and signage are executed correctly for time-sensitive promotions. Live dashboards track compliance and highlight execution gaps so you can course-correct quickly. 

Store Recovery and On-Shelf Availability

Driveline helps brands regain control after experiencing disruptions like staffing shortages, resets, or stockouts. Our retail data visualization tools detect out-of-stock or missing items and track restocking progress across retail locations. Predictive analytics highlight availability risks before they escalate, helping teams maintain continuity and customer trust.

Retail Operations Optimization and Turnover Tracking

Retail inventory is a moving target. Driveline’s in-store data tools monitor stock levels, turnover rates, and shelf status to help you manage inventory with precision. By identifying slow movers and shelf gaps in real time, you can reduce excess inventory, avoid stockouts, and improve store-level efficiency, which drives down costs while keeping shelves productive.

Customer Experience and Shopper Behavior Insights

Our innovative retail data visualization technology reveals how customers interact with products in-store. Insights like dwell time and eye-level placement allow you to personalize layouts and assortments to match buyer behavior, creating more engaging experiences that encourage loyalty and higher sales. 

Why Driveline?

See how we deliver data that leads to action:

• Advanced tech you can trust: We leverage proprietary platforms, AI image recognition, and automation tools to deliver retail data with over 95% accuracy.
• Actionable business intelligence: We link insights to real-world retail execution. Our platforms help you identify issues, deploy field teams, and track resolution instantly.
• No broker bias: Our data is independent, verified, and designed to reflect what’s really happening on shelves. 
• Coast-to-coast coverage: With 15,000 fully employed W-2 retail professionals in all 50 states, Driveline executes with speed, consistency, and regional expertise at every scale.
• Retail shelf management you can rely on: We specialize in keeping shelves organized, planograms compliant, and displays spotless so your brand looks its best in every store.

Turn Retail Data Into Your Competitive Advantage

Your retail success is only as good as your visibility. Driveline’s Retail Data Collection solutions combine automation and advanced analytics to give you actionable insights you can trust. Whether you need to validate a reset, track a launch, or fix a shelf execution issue fast, our AI-driven tools and national workforce get it done accurately, at scale, and on time. 

Connect with our expert team to convert your store-level data into smarter, more profitable decisions. 

Frequently Asked Questions

Why Is Accurate and Timely Data Collection Important in Retail?    

Accurate and timely retail data collection empowers retailers to make rapid, informed decisions at scale. It optimizes inventory management, product displays, promotion execution, and staff allocation. Businesses can reduce missed sales opportunities and operational costs.

What Are the Limitations of Traditional Retail Data Collection Methods?    

Manual audits and spreadsheets are time-consuming, prone to error, and difficult to scale across a wide network of stores. Reliance on outdated processes results in inconsistent shopper experiences and preventable stockouts or overstock. Traditional methods leave your business vulnerable to competitors leveraging more advanced, data-driven strategies.

How Does Driveline’s Retail Data Collection Service Work?    

Driveline Retail Merchandising utilizes artificial intelligence, advanced image recognition, and shelf-edge automation. We can capture and visualize complex shelf-level data with over 95% accuracy. Images taken in-store are instantly transformed into verified insights, providing actionable direction to field teams and retailers. 

What Kind of Data Can Driveline Collect?    

Driveline’s retail data collection solutions capture in-store and shelf-level metrics, including:

• Planogram and fixture compliance.
• Reset readiness and execution.
• New item cut-ins and promotional display/signage deployment.
• On-shelf availability and out-of-stock trends.
• Turnover rates, shelf gaps, and slow-moving SKUs.
• Shopper behavior indicators (dwell time, placement effectiveness).

This data enables retailers to systematically enhance compliance, maximize promotional impact, and drive profitable execution across every location.

How Does Driveline Ensure Planogram Compliance and Reset Readiness?    

Driveline leverages AI-powered shelf imaging across thousands of stores to verify planogram execution and reset readiness in real time. Our SmartPMX workflow flags discrepancies, triggers tasks, and tracks resolution, driving on-time resets and reducing costly rework. 

How Does Driveline Track New Product and Promotion Visibility?    

To bring shoppers to your shelves, your products and promotions must be visible and correctly presented. Driveline leverages image recognition and location-based tracking to confirm that new product cut-ins and promotional displays are well executed. Live dashboards provide real-time compliance data and immediately highlight any execution gaps. Your team can course-correct with agility during time-sensitive promotional windows, ensuring maximum ROI on your marketing budget.

How Does Driveline Help With Store Recovery and On-Shelf Availability?    

We detect out-of-stocks and missing items, monitor restocking progress across all locations, and use predictive analytics to flag availability risks before they impact your bottom line. This proactive approach to store recovery and on-shelf availability maintains operational continuity and reinforces customer trust in your brand, even in the face of market disruptions.