Carrefour Market Pénestin: AI‑powered date control, 80% faster with Smartdetection Flash Evo
2-2.5 hours
before Smartway
1 hour
with Smartway
30 min
with Flash Evo
Zero
Expired products on shelves
Faster short-date management to ensure zero expired products on shelves
Before adopting Smartway and Vusion solutions, Carrefour Pénestin managed short-date products entirely manually. Each product had to be checked one by one across all aisles, meaning over 5,000 items needed verification every day. This method was time-consuming and unreliable: employees spent 2.5 hours daily on the task, yet some expired products still slipped through, remaining on shelves.
Looking to automate this process and ensure zero expired products on shelves, Carrefour Pénestin implemented Smartway’s Smartdetection solution. This innovation allows teams to check only 4% of products instead of scanning the entire store. The result? Significant operational time savings, enabling employees to focus on higher-value tasks.
To further accelerate the process, the store later adopted Smartdetection Flash Evo, a combined solution integrating Vusion’s electronic shelf labels.
Why AI date control matters for supermarket food waste management
Smartway puts AI at the heart of date control, turning a tedious manual task into a strategic lever for supermarket food waste management. Instead of scanning every item on every shelf, Smartway’s algorithms identify only the products that truly need attention, guiding teams directly to short-dated items. This dramatically reduces the time spent on checks, cuts the risk of human error, and keeps expired products off shelves. By surfacing the right products early, Smartway also makes it easier to apply targeted markdowns, donations, or other actions that protect both margins and brand image. In practice, AI‑driven date control becomes a powerful way for supermarkets to reduce waste, free up staff time, and deliver a more reliable shopping experience for customers.
Record time savings with Smartdetection Flash Evo
With Smartdetection, employees are guided via a PDA, which directs them to the exact products needing verification. No more searching through the entire store—only short-date products are flagged, leading to massive time savings.
The real breakthrough came with Smartdetection Flash Evo, the joint innovation by Smartway and Vusion. Flashing electronic shelf labels from Vusion instantly highlight products to check.
An intuitive solution, adopted in just days
The installation of Smartdetection Flash Evo was seamless. In just a few days, employees had fully integrated the tool into their daily routines.
“Before, it was tedious and error-prone. Now, the task is clear, fast, and efficient. Our employees can learn how to use it in just three minutes.”
Luc Duluard, Store Manager, Carrefour Pénestin
The solution also simplifies training for new hires. From their first week, they are fully operational.
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"With Smartdetection Flash Evo, there’s no more searching. The labels flash, so we know exactly where to go. We’ve saved an additional 50% of our time!"