"We'll show you what your customers see."
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What we do
Driving sales in retail, both physical and online, starts with understanding what is and isn’t working for your customer.
The best way to get these retail insights is to regularly put yourself into the customers’ shoes, to see and experience what they see and experience.
Acting as your critical friend, we visit dozens of stores every week and take thousands of photos, distilling our findings into concise reports that demystify the retail environment and give you expert insights with actionable recommendations.
How we help

Retail Image Dataset
A structured image dataset of more than 1,000,000 retail images. Built for AI/ML teams, expert captured, folder tagged and never, ever scraped. Perfect for training models on the real store environment.

Reports
Know what’s happening ‘on the ground’ with weekly reports flagging what’s new, what’s working (and what isn’t) and how customers are reacting. With expert insights and sales-driving recommendations.

Strategic Advice
Anyone can visit a few stores and take a few photos. We dig deeper, interpret our findings then offer recommendations, strategies and training, to help you make sound sales-focused improvements.
Who we help
Win pitches and shape strategies with retail gems and insights.


"Enough improvement points to fill a 3-year plan"
How can we help?
Every business is unique with unique challenges. We begin with a conversation to get to know more about your business, your challenges and how our retail insights can boost your bottom line.

Steve Dresser, CEO
"The man supermarket CEO's turn to" - BBC
Let us do the work for you
As much or as little help as you need, when you need it. We’re your expert on the ground, getting to the root of a problem, building a strategy, sharing insights, whatever you need.

Ongoing support
Acting as your partner, we focus on your business needs, giving you bespoke insights, photos, straight-talking advice and strategies for growth and development.

One-off projects
Tailored research on an ad hoc basis to help you solve a problem, strengthen a category, plan for a seasonal opportunity or whatever it is that you need to improve.

Retail by Email
Regular updates on the week’s retail environment, delivered hot off the digital press to your inbox. With our observations, recommendations and expert retail analysis.
Self service

Retail Image Dataset
Explore our 1,000,000 strong image dataset, track execution trends, benchmark performance and train smarter retail models. Learn from us.

Report Store
Discover the latest developments, seasonal activity, who’s doing what well and more, all with our expert perspective and candid photos, in our detailed Retail Reports.

Grocery Insights Blog
Dip into our extensive bank of blogs sharing our expertise on everything from industry overviews to brand events and new store openings
Latest Reports
£4,995.00 Original price was: £4,995.00.£995.00Current price is: £995.00.
Dip into our reports store and choose the insights that you need. We have hundreds of reports dating back from 2014.
Latest Bite-sized Retail Insights
Read our bite-sized retail insights written by Steve Dresser, founder of Grocery Insight.
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For over a decade, we’ve been walking stores and capturing how UK supermarkets execute seasonal events, not just at Christmas,...
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My first long read on our beautiful new website is to be focused on Morrisons and what may lie ahead...
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Follow a good retail diet: Where we have spoken before about the need to follow a good diet (in store)...
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& Lidl to some extent. Whenever one visits a discount store, typically, I’m amazed at how hard working the colleagues...
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The emergence of online shopping, digital and technological development meant that the stores were finished (or so I heard). Yet...
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This is an example of a note on the new Mere discount store in Preston from our retail by email...
