U Melesse • France
How did the Super U store in Melesse reduce its shrinkage by 20% in 2 months?
Store surface area: 3,700m2
Solutions: Smartdecision • Smartdiscount
U Melesse • France
How did the Super U store in Melesse reduce its shrinkage by 20% in 2 months?
Store surface area: 3,700m2
Solutions: Smartdecision • Smartdiscount
What was the store’s shrinkage policy before partnering with Smartway?
Before entering into a partnership with Smartway in May 2019, Super U Melesse was applying discount stickers on its products manually to avoid wasting unsold food. This process was error-prone and did not guarantee the traceability of products in the store. With the Smartdecision and Smartdiscount solutions, Super U Melesse wishes to optimise the management of unsold goods while selling as many products as possible without having to throw them away.
✔ Optimise discount
✔ Refine the orders to waste as little as possible
✔ Sell products without losing them
✔ Reduce waste
✔ Convey a positive eco-responsible image
Each Smartway solution responds to a specific problem in the store
Smartdecision offers an efficient way to guide products to their second life
Smartdecision is a tool based on Artificial Intelligence, allowing the store to choose the most appropriate repurposing channel for unsold products: labelling or donation to charities. Super U Melesse therefore preserves the maximum value of products that should have been thrown away.
Smartway’s retail experts provide the store with access to regular reviews of their anti-waste policy. Therefore, the store has a better understanding and ensures improved shrinkage control. It specifically knows which items are most frequently stickered on a daily basis; product traceability is ensured while allowing better management of food orders and stocks. As a result, Super U Melesse’s shrinkage rate is decreasing, and 19 tonnes of products were saved in just one year!
19 tonnes worth of products saved in 1 year
View of the top 20 most stickered items
Label end-of-life products easily with Smartdiscount
The partnership set up with Smartway allows Super U Melesse to improve shrinkage management. The Smartdiscount terminal used by the teams to label short-dated products with discounts features a simple interface that can be quickly understood by all users. The printer is mobile and can be adapted to the daily work of the teams.
Smartdiscount‘s ease of use allows teams to improve their productivity: 95 % of the stickering is easily completed before the store opens in the morning. Thanks to the involvement of the Super U Melesse teams in the global approach and the support of Smartway experts: technical assistance and Customer Success Manager, the store’s anti-waste results are unquestionable: the equivalent of 10,000 meals was saved in just one year!
41,000 Zero Waste products labelled in 1 year
95% of stickering completed before the store opens
Each Smartway solution responds to a specific problem in the store
19 tons
worth of products saved in 1 year
View of the top 20 most stickered items
Smartdecision offers an efficient way to guide products to their second life
Smartdecision is a tool based on Artificial Intelligence, allowing the store to choose the most appropriate repurposing channel for unsold products: labelling or donation to charities. Super U Melesse therefore preserves the maximum value of products that should have been thrown away.
Smartway’s retail experts provide the store with access to regular reviews of their anti-waste policy. Therefore, the store has a better understanding and ensures improved shrinkage control. It specifically knows which items are most frequently stickered on a daily basis; product traceability is ensured while allowing better management of food orders and stocks. As a result, Super U Melesse’s shrinkage rate is decreasing, and 19 tonnes of products were saved in just one year!
Label end-of-life products easily with Smartdiscount
The partnership set up with Smartway allows Super U Melesse to improve shrinkage management. The Smartdiscount terminal used by the teams to label short-dated products with discounts features a simple interface that can be quickly understood by all users. The printer is mobile and can be adapted to the daily work of the teams.
Smartdiscount‘s ease of use allows teams to improve their productivity: 95 % of the stickering is easily completed before the store opens in the morning. Thanks to the involvement of the Super U Melesse teams in the global approach and the support of Smartway experts: technical assistance and Customer Success Manager, the store’s anti-waste results are unquestionable: the equivalent of 10,000 meals was saved in just one year!
41,000 Zero Waste products labelled in 1 year
95% of stickering completed before the store opens
“The monthly product statistics reports are very practical and very efficient for our order management. They have become essential tools!”
“The monthly product statistics reports are very practical and very efficient for our order management. They have become essential tools!”
“The tool is directly linked to our internal solution and automatically suggests the discounts to be applied, which is just great.”
Raphaël Guillemot, Deputy Commercial Director
