Retail Merchandising Insights
Explore Survey’s latest resources, blog posts, and client success stories that will help make an impactful difference to the retain management strategy of your organization. From how to guides and solutions relating to the retail and CPG industry, to all the latest retail news and sector developments, Survey’s retail merchandising blog covers all the areas that you will need to improve the bottom line of an organization and help optimize its retail management implementation.
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Childhood brands shape our retail perspective by connecting products with memories, traditions, and trust. When retail execution keeps those products available, visible, and easy t...
Childhood brands shape how we experience retail by connecting everyday products with memories, traditions, and trust. Growing up in Honduras, certain brands were simply part of family life — in our kitchens, at family gatherings, and in the meals we shared. Today, working at Survey, I see those same kinds of brands from a new perspective: not just as products on a shelf, but as familiar touchpoints that rely on strong retail execution to remain available, visible, and easy to find for the shoppers who have made them part of their lives. Behind every product, there’s a story — and sometimes, that story feels a little like home.
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How to Choose a Merchandising Partner That Drives Retail Execution ROI
A strong merchandising partner helps brands improve on-shelf availability, increase display compliance, resol...
Learn how to choose a merchandising partner that improves retail execution, increases compliance, reduces out-of-stocks, and delivers measurable ROI through real-time retail intelligence.
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Retail strategy is often won or lost at the shelf.
Brands invest millions in promotions, pricing strategies, merchandising programs, and retail partnerships. Yet many of those init...
Survey analyzed 18,522 convenience stores across the United States to uncover trends in pricing accuracy, display compliance, product availability, and retail execution performance. Download the full benchmark report.
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Retail audits have become one of the fastest growing categories in retail intelligence.
Brands today have more options than ever. New retail audit platforms such as Hetal Retail ...
Compare leading retail audit providers including Survey, Hetal Retail, and Eileen. Learn the five questions every brand should ask before selecting a retail audit partner and discover why combining shelf visibility with retail execution drives stronger retail performance.
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By Hannah Qian, Data Scientist
Retail execution has always been a challenge of decisions.
What needs attention?
Which stores matter most?
Where should resources be deployed...
Retail execution is evolving from simply collecting data to making smarter decisions. Discover how AI, operational intelligence, and real-time insights are helping brands and retailers turn visibility into action and execute with greater confidence at scale.
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Retail success is no longer determined by how many store visits are completed. It depends on how quickly brands can identify issues at the shelf, prioritize corrective action, and ...
Upgrade your merchandising model with Survey's Dynamic Merchandising and Flexforce — the modern, flexible and on-demand merchandising solution.
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Quality assurance transforms store-level activity into trusted retail intelligence.
For years, brands have invested heavily in retail execution sending teams into stores, co...
Retail visibility is only valuable when brands can trust the data behind it. As part of Survey's Retail Performance Suite, Quality Assurance serves as a built-in trust layer that validates every store visit through photo verification, GPS confirmation, execution monitoring, and continuous performance review. By combining trusted data, actionable intelligence, and scalable execution, brands can move beyond task completion and focus on what matters most: improving shelf performance, compliance, and business outcomes.
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Why brands need store signals, not just sales signals
The Retail Signal Gap: Store conditions affect execution, execution affects shoppers, and shopper experience ultimately ...
Sales data shows what happened. Store signals reveal why it happened. Learn how shelf audits, photos, field observations, and execution history help brands identify where retail performance is breaking — and where to act next.
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5 Questions brands can answer with Retail Visibility part of the Survey Retail Performance Suite
“Which stores need attention?” and other questions Shelf Performance data can a...
5 Questions brands can answer with Retail Visibility part of the Survey Retail Performance Suite
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I walked into a grocery store for laundry detergent and hair dye. What I walked into instead was a glass enclosure — floor-to-ceiling panels, sliding doors, a separate checkout s...
Locked shelves may reduce theft but they also reduce sales. Learn how retail product lockups distort demand, shrink conversion, and quietly push customers to competitors.
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You have the star product – the investment and effort done in designing, development, production, marketing has paid off! Your product is popular, wanted, you have bagged the big...
Closing the gap between reported inventory and true shelf presence is critical to driving sales. Even when products are “in stock,” they’re often missing from the shelf. Learn how identifying phantom inventory, restocking gaps, and execution issues can improve on-shelf availability and increase sell-through.
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A nationwide execution network driving 100K+ retail visits monthly, capturing 1.4M data points each week and 400K verified in-store photos sounds impressive on paper.
But volume al...
Retail execution moves fast, but shelf conditions change even faster. From misplaced inventory to missed promotional execution, the difference is not who shows up. It is who can identify issues, respond in real time, and turn store-level insight into consistent sales performance.