Longitudinal archive
Millions of images across hundreds of retailers. When something changes, we can show you what it looked like before.
See your stores the way your customers do.
Retail intelligence, store diagnostics, and competitive analysis from one of the industry's most experienced operators.
Hundreds of reportsHundreds of clients17 yearsMillions of images
What we do
Five ways to work together. Each shaped around what you need.
Store audits
A diagnostic and fix programme for retail estates. Every store visited, every problem paired with a fix and an owner.
A rounding error against a multi-billion-pound estate
Store visits
Walk yours, competitors, or the wider market. UK or overseas. Truth at the shelf edge, in a single day.
One day to see what months of internal reviews miss
Market briefings
Exec sessions, conference keynotes, investor briefings. The market through sharper eyes, in your room.
An hour that shapes a quarter of decisions
Expertise
90+ areas of retail advisory. Build your brief interactively and send it to Steve in one click.
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Kanops AI
Computer vision for retail. Millions of images, a suite of production models, pricing intelligence.
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The depth behind the work
Every recommendation is grounded in real data, real visits, and real photography. Not theory.
17 years
9+ retailers
Walked every week
The same fascias visited consistently, plus convenience and variety. Trends surface because the baseline holds.
AI-powered
Cartwright retail intelligence
A suite of production models running on every image: category classification, seasonal detection, product recognition, text extraction, share of shelf, pricing.
First-hand
Not second-hand, not delayed
Every retailer walked by the same pair of eyes, every observation written in the same voice, every week. No desk research.
What others say
From CEOs to fund managers, the feedback is consistent.
"Steve is one of the best retail operators I've ever come across. He's a true force to be reckoned with."
"His no-nonsense approach helped anchor our discussions and provided retail expertise without the overhead of large consultancy firms."
"The team at Channel Islands Co-op benefitted immensely from working with Steve and the team at Grocery Insight."
Sixteen years of it, free to read
477 pieces written from the shop floor between 2009 and 2023, kept exactly as they were written. The blog that became Grocery Insight, and the notes subscribers received the week of the visit.
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