Simbe for Small Format Retail
Shopper-ready shelves for compact stores
Make every square foot work harder with real-time inventory and shelf intelligence
Small format retail can be a complex environment: dense assortments, lean staffing, and highly distributed locations acting as stores and local fulfillment hubs. Simbe provides continuous ground-truth to keep shelves stocked, prices correct, and associates focused on shoppers.
Convenience
Keep snacks, beverages, and prepared foods available for walk-in shoppers and delivery drivers. By automating manual shelf audits, Simbe helps staff maintain store conditions, manage fresh food, and keep checkout lines moving—improving repeat visits and loyalty.
Pharmacy & Drug
Protect margins across high-value, theft-prone categories like cosmetics and OTC. Simbe continuously audits shelves to detect phantom inventory and execution gaps, helping stores manage total loss while enabling teams to focus on front-end service and pharmacy patient care.
Discount & Dollar
Rapid expansion and lean staffing make consistent execution across thousands of locations difficult. Simbe identifies out-of-stocks, pricing mismatches, and planogram gaps, giving store teams and headquarters precise visibility into what needs attention without manual aisle walks.
Auto Parts
Deliver on your promise of fast, reliable fulfillment for DIY shoppers and professional mechanics. Simbe verifies shelf availability across thousands of complex parts so highly trained associates can provide expert advice instead of searching the backroom for missing inventory.
Pet
Pet owners are fiercely brand loyal and rarely substitute preferred items. Simbe ensures accurate shelves across dense assortments so customers—whether shopping in store or ordering online—always find the exact products they need for their pets.
Simbe’s Store Intelligence platform combines robotics and fixed sensors to deliver a complete, real-time view of store execution in small-format locations.
Simbe autonomously captures on-shelf availability, price accuracy, and merchandising compliance, so every store operates at the highest-performance level without adding a single hour of labor to your P&L.
Data Solution of the Year - Retail 2026
CEO Brad Bogolea, Top Retail Expert 2025
Most Innovative Company 2025
Best in Business 2024
On-shelf Availability 2024
Best Innovations of 2023
Best Use of Technology 2023
How Simbe helps every part of small format businesses
Store Operations
Take day-to-day ops to the next level.
Stay on Top of Shelf Stock
Inventory accuracy and on-shelf execution creates happy shoppers who visit more often, while staying longer and spending more.
Perfection is Possible
Make out-of-stocks, pricing errors, and promotional discrepancies a thing of the past.
Smoother Digital Orders
Ensure items promised online are actually found in store. Location-level accuracy enables faster picks, fewer cancellations, and a smoother shopper experience.
Finance
Imagine what truly precise data could do for financial planning and inventory management.
Better forecasting, less waste
When you have accurate data you can better predict customer buying patterns and seasonal demand. It’s that simple.
Raise the bar on reporting
No more errors in counts and valuation, no more phantom inventory issues, no more audit mishaps.
Greater profits
When you minimize out-of-stocks, capture lost sales and reduce operating expenses, everyone wins.
IT
Tech management should be easy. And it is with Simbe’s integrated solutions accessible across web and mobile platforms.
Super simple integration
Quick, easy, minimal disruption, no matter what existing systems you use.
Serious scalability
We’re the right partner for your growth, as the only multimodal solution purpose-built for retail with multiple chain-wide deployments.
Unmatched actionable data
Detailed reports, dashboards, and high-resolution images, available anywhere, on any device.
Merchandising
Valuable insights on where products and promos will resonate most.
Execution adherence
Guidelines are good. Simbe helps you follow planned merchandising guidelines and layouts.
Planogram compliance
Easily monitor and enforce compliance with realograms that show shelves exactly as they are.
Planogram optimization
Use near real-time visual data to refine product placement for maximum visibility and sales.
Supply Chain
Ensure up-to-date product availability with near-real time inventory data.
In Stock, On Shelves
Consistent, accurate daily insights on store inventory make your job that much easier.
Reduce Phantom Inventory
Say goodbye to both OOS and phantom inventory, and do it all while minimizing manual checks.
Take the Power Back
Empower your team to make timely, informed decisions that optimize procurement, inventory levels, and distribution strategies.
“Our goal is to ensure inventory gets to the shelf when it comes in and it gets in front of the consumer as quickly as possible.”
Todd Vasos
Former CEO
“We are focused on improving execution, expanding parts availability, and improving speed of delivery to better serve our customers.”
Philip Daniele
CEO
Operational expertise across retail sectors
Ready to see Simbe in your store?
With Store Intelligence, your teams can focus on delivering exceptional shopper experiences—while technology handles the tedious, time-
consuming tasks.
