U Écommoy • France
How did the Hyper U store at Écommoy cut down its shrinkage by 12% in one year?
Store surface area: 7,129m2
Solutions: Smartdecision • Smartdiscount
U Écommoy • France
How did the Hyper U store at Écommoy cut down its shrinkage by 12% in one year?
Store surface area: 7,129m2
Solutions: Smartdecision • Smartdiscount
What was the store’s shrinkage policy before partnering with Smartway?
Smartway has been supporting the store in the fight against food waste since 2018. The objectives for the partnership are clear: to repurpose as many food products as possible while engaging the store in an anti-waste approach.
Before using the Smartdecision and Smartdiscount solutions, the Hyper U store at Écommoy manually applied discount labels to short-dated products. This solution was unsatisfactory because it was tedious, error-prone, not very effective, without a dedicated section, and confusing and damaging to the image consumers had in the “traditional” aisles.
✔ Guarantee consumers shelves with products without short dates
✔ Allow consumers to increase their purchasing power and participate in repurposing
✔ Reduce shrinkage and throw away less product
✔ Engage employees in an anti-waste approach
Each Smartway solution responds to a specific problem in the store
Guide each product into its second life with Smartdecision
The store teams no longer have to wonder about what to do. Smartdecision helps them choose the best channels for repurposing unsold goods: discounts or donations to charitable organisations.
By using the artificial intelligence-driven Smartdecision solution, the store has been able to increase the repurposing of unsold goods in the store by 7%. In one year alone, no less than 55 tons of products were saved!
Repurposed shrinkage up by 7%
55 tons of products saved
Labelled products made easy with Smartdiscount
Smartdiscount, a secure labelling station for short-dated products, is an easy-to-use solution that can be set up quickly in a food store. Teams at the Hyper U store at Écommoy readily adopted the use of Smartdiscount and they have been able to increase the labelling of short-dated products by 9% in just one year!
Our expert field teams also advised the store to install Zero Waste shelves. This space, which brings discounted products together in one unit, is now very popular with the hypermarket’s customers. A short-dated product placed in this section has a 72% chance of being sold!
Labelling of short-dated products up 9%
72% resale rate
An anti-waste approach that paid off in the first year
In addition to underlining its commitment to the fight against food waste, the Hyper U store has seen a boost in profitability in a very short time. For every €1 invested in Smartway solutions, the store earns €30.
Simplified shrinkage processing, teams who save time every morning, and a commitment shared by Smartway teams and in-store teams—this is the winning formula of the Hypermarché U store at Écommoy, how they saved €210,000 worth of food products in a single year!
€1 invested for €30 earned
€210,000 worth of products saved in 1 year
Each Smartway solution responds to a specific problem in the store
Repurposed shrinkage up by 7%
55 tons
of products saved
Guide each product into its second life with Smartdecision
The store teams no longer have to wonder about what to do. Smartdecision helps them choose the best channels for repurposing unsold goods: discounts or donations to charitable organisations.
By using the artificial intelligence-driven Smartdecision solution, the store has been able to increase the repurposing of unsold goods in the store by 7%. In one year alone, no less than 55 tons of products were saved!
Labelled products made easy with Smartdiscount
Smartdiscount, a secure labelling station for short-dated products, is an easy-to-use solution that can be set up quickly in a food store. Teams at the Hyper U store at Écommoy readily adopted the use of Smartdiscount and they have been able to increase the labelling of short-dated products by 9% in just one year!
Our expert field teams also advised the store to install Zero Waste shelves. This space, which brings discounted products together in one unit, is now very popular with the hypermarket’s customers. A short-dated product placed in this section has a 72% chance of being sold!
Labelling of short-dated products up 9%
72%
resale rate
€1 invested for €30 earned
€210,000 worth of products saved in 1 year
An anti-waste approach that paid off in the first year
In addition to underlining its commitment to the fight against food waste, the Hyper U store has seen a boost in profitability in a very short time. For every €1 invested in Smartway solutions, the store earns €30.
Simplified shrinkage processing, teams who save time every morning, and a commitment shared by Smartway teams and in-store teams—this is the winning formula of the Hypermarché U store at Écommoy, how they saved €210,000 worth of food products in a single year!
“Ensuring the freshness of our shelves, saving as many products as possible, and offering discounted short-dated products—this is the winning trio we’ve managed to achieve.”
“Ensuring the freshness of our shelves, saving as many products as possible, and offering discounted short-dated products—this is the winning trio we’ve managed to achieve.”
“The teams are happy to use the Smartway solution because it’s very well thought out, efficient and fast. Even untrained staff members can use it, since everything is automatic.”
Samuel Roussel, Head of the Business Department
