A person uses the Stoc mobile app to check planogram compliance on a beverage cooler, with color-coded shelves displayed on screen showing stock gaps and product placement insights.

How to Create a Planogram with Stoc

Planogram Recap Planograms have been around for decades, but too often they’re treated like static shelf maps that get updated a few times a year and never reflect what customers actually want. In the fast-moving world of beverage sales, that approach doesn’t cut it anymore. Shopper habits change every week, new products hit shelves every…

A beverage cooler analyzed by Stoc’s AI, showing item-level performance data and planogram metrics like sales percentages and shelf compliance through visual overlays.

Replacing Regional Planograms with Location-Based Intelligence: The Future of Retail Optimization

he Problem with Traditional Planogram Management Walk into a convenience store anywhere in the country and you’ll probably see the same product layout in every cooler. That’s not by chance—it’s the result of regional planograms that dictate product placement across hundreds of stores. The problem? A downtown Chicago store and a suburban Milwaukee gas station…

Illustration of a Stoc smart camera scanning beverage coolers to verify shelf compliance, detecting out-of-stock products with red Xs and confirming accuracy with a green check mark.

Retail Automation: From Action to Verification

AI Agents in Retail Eliminate Bottlenecks Retail operations are hitting a ceiling. Despite heavy investment in digital transformation, many retailers remain stuck in a loop: powerful systems on one end, frontline teams on the other, and humans caught in the middle manually pushing tasks from detection to execution. It’s a legacy model, and it’s slowing…

A smiling store manager uses a handheld device in front of beverage coolers while Stoc’s smart sensor and mobile dashboard display real-time stockouts, low stock, and planogram compliance data.

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…

Drowning In Data?

In the beverage game, data isn’t the problem, it’s the noise. Every cooler in the field is capable of spitting out a torrent of information: stock levels, temperature logs, planogram compliance, door swings, dwell time. You name it, it’s there. And yet… teams are still flying blind. Because here’s the brutal truth: Data doesn’t drive…