You’re Not Alone: Turning Beverage Ops Pain into Opportunity
In beverage retailing, small problems never stay small.
An empty shelf here, a missed temp spike there and suddenly sales slip, product quality dips, and field teams spend the day chasing fires instead of driving growth.
If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Every store manager, regional leader, and merchandise planner we talk to faces the same uphill battles. The good news? Once you call the problem by name, you can start fixing it.
What’s Holding Beverage Teams Back?
These aren’t just headaches. They’re hidden drains on revenue, loyalty, and time.
Disconnected Dashboards
Inventory here, temp logs there, planograms somewhere else. None of them synced. When data lives in five different places, quick decisions become impossible.
Frequent Stock outs
Nothing kills momentum like an empty cooler. Stock outs eat up as much as 8% of daily beverage sales. Without live visibility, you’re always reacting too late and restocking only after the sale is gone.
Manual Audits
Floor teams spend hours counting facings, logging temps, snapping photos, and typing it all in later. It’s slow, repetitive, pulls focus from selling, and still leaves room for miscalculations that could result in inaccurate data to leaders.
Cooler Performance Failures
When a cooler slips, drinks go warm and trust goes cold. Up to 7% of annual shrink comes from these breakdowns. Without 24/7 eyes, you won’t catch everything in time.
UPC Turnover Chaos
With seasonals, promos, and limited runs, your UPC list changes nonstop. SKUs are up 30% in the last few years. Good for consumers, brutal for manual planogram updates.
How Stoc Flips the Script
Stoc was built to cut the noise and give your team clarity. One platform. One source of truth. No guesswork.
Unified Data, One Dashboard
Cooler images, temperature logs, and planogram compliance checks all in one place. No more switching tabs or reconciling spreadsheets.
Stock outs Caught in Real Time
StocVision cameras flag low-stock SKUs before shelves go empty. You prevent the loss, instead of reacting after it happens.
Planogram Compliance Checks, Automated
On-device AI scans every cooler shelf against the layout. Misplacements are flagged instantly. No clipboards, no wasted time.
Cooler Insights, Always On
Sensors track temps, door swings, and performance 24/7. If a cooler’s off, you know first before customers even notice.
UPC Changes Made Simple
Seasonal launch? Holiday promo? Stoc pushes planogram updates across your network automatically. No retraining, no manual checks.
The Road Forward
Disconnected systems, blind spots, and endless firefighting aren’t just frustrating; they’re expensive. But they don’t have to be the way you operate.
Stoc brings live visibility, smart alerts, and actionable insights together in one platform. Instead of reacting to problems, you’re ahead of them. Instead of losing sales to empty shelves, you’re locking in revenue and trust.
You’re not the only one dealing with these challenges. But with the right tools, you won’t stay stuck.
Let’s fix it together. Learn more or book a demo at hellostoc.com.