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Bottom of Basket: Shrink Control

Client

One of the largest grocery retailers based out of Texas

Business Problem

In the client’s departmental stores, items left on the bottom of the shopping cart during checkout is a major source of revenue loss

Objective

Identify “Bottom of Basket” items

Abzooba’s Solution:

  • Our computer vision solution scans the shopping cart
  • If the cart isn’t empty, the solution identifies the products
  • An alert is generated, and an automated invoice is created for the cashier to review
  • TensorFlow is used as the Deep Learning library
  • VGG (Visual Geometry Group) 16 pre-trained on ImageNet Dataset
  • Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been used to enhance the accuracy of the solution

Business Benefits:

  • Tighter shrink control
  • Increase annual revenue – between $4,500 to $6,000 per store per month
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