What Smart Shelves save on your route
Set your route below. The estimate shows the best case for four things: time back at every restock, the labor that time costs, expired product that FIFO rotation prevents, and the sales a full, faced shelf keeps. A 5-cooler route at the starting numbers gets up to 121 hours a year back and up to $5,172 in total.
Your numbers
Up to $5,172 a year. Kits pay for themselves in about 7 months.
Every year on your route, up to
- Time back14 minutes saved on every restock
- 121 hours
- Labor savedthose hours at your labor cost
- $2,427
- Less expired productFIFO date rotation on every shelf
- $945
- More gross profitfrom $3,600 more sales on full, faced shelves
- $1,800
Kits for 5 coolers cost $3,000 and pay for themselves in about 7 months.
- Organized: every lane faced, labels to the cameras, oldest dates in front
- Better use of the cooler: back rows are easy to reach, so every lane stays full
- Safer loading: one shelf open at a time, never far enough to tip
A best-case estimate, not a guarantee. It uses the OE-L’s up to 70% faster loading, $1,500 in sales per cooler a month at 50% product cost, 3% of product expiring with FIFO rotation preventing up to 70% of it, and up to 4% more sales from full shelves (retail research by Corsten and Gruen found stock-outs can cost up to 4% of sales). Your route’s results will vary.
Shop kits for your coolersHow the estimate works
- Time back is your restocks a year times the minutes each one takes, times the share of that time pull-out trays save.
- Labor saved is those hours times your labor cost per hour.
- Less expired product is your yearly sales, times your product cost share, times the share thrown out for dates, times the share FIFO rotation prevents.
- More gross profit is your yearly sales times the sales lift, minus the product cost of those extra sales.
- Payback is what the kits cost divided by the yearly total.
- Fixed assumptions: $1,500 in sales per cooler a month, 50% product cost, 3% of product expiring, FIFO preventing up to 70% of that, up to 70% faster loading and up to 4% more sales.
Organization, safer loading and fuller back rows are real too, but they are left out of the dollar total. Ready? Shop kits by cooler model: one price per machine plus flat shipping.
Savings calculator questions
How much time do pull-out shelves save when restocking a smart cooler?
The Smart Shelves OE-L is designed for up to 70% less loading time, because the tray comes out to you instead of you reaching past the front row. The calculator shows that best case: on a 20-minute restock, up to 14 minutes back on every visit.
How do pull-out shelves cut expired product?
With the tray pulled out and locked open, new stock goes behind old stock in every lane, so the oldest dates sell first. On a fixed shelf that rotation is slow, so it often gets skipped.
Why would full shelves sell more?
AI coolers sell what customers can see, and a lane that is empty at the front looks sold out. Retail research by Corsten and Gruen found stock-outs can cost retailers up to 4% of sales, and the calculator uses that as the best case.
How fast do the kits pay for themselves?
With the starting numbers (5 coolers, 2 restocks a week, $20 an hour) at the best case, kits at $599.95 a machine pay back in about 7 months.
Is the estimate a guarantee?
No. It is the best case for the route you enter, using the assumptions in the fine print. Labor cost, product cost, sales and how often you restock vary by route.