Operational efficiency isn’t just nice to have; it’s a necessity. Grocery retailers must constantly stay ahead of a myriad of tasks such as inventory management, pricing accuracy, and loss prevention. Thankfully, solutions are available to turn these challenges (and potential burnout) into opportunities for growth and innovation.
UNFI understands that the pressure to perform can be overwhelming, especially when your strength and passion lie in different aspects of your business. That’s why we offer a comprehensive portfolio of solutions designed specifically to complement your business strategy and save you time. With this strategy in place, you can focus on what matters most — your customers.
iUNFI Mobile Ordering: Simplifying Inventory Management
The iUNFI mobile ordering system is revolutionizing the way grocery retailers manage their inventory. This tool allows for better and faster ordering decisions right from the aisle, consolidating orders across all UNFI accounts onto a single device. The intuitive navigation, combined with favorite lists and search capabilities, ensures that you can quickly add items to your cart, reducing the time spent on manual order entry.
Automatic Price Change Management: Ensuring Pricing Accuracy
Long gone are the days of manually keying in price changes. UNFI’s software solution modernizes your pricing process, saving both time and labor. It automates price changes, temporary price reductions, ad pricing, and first-time buy records. Designed with small to medium grocery stores in mind, this technology not only reduces pricing errors but also protects shopper trust and supports your bottom line.
Strategic Pricing: Mastering Your Market Positioning
An essential component of retail success is strategic pricing — and understanding the impact of pricing on brand perception, profitability, and customer loyalty. UNFI offers tools for grocers to refine their pricing strategy through competitive price checks, benchmarking, data analysis, and implementation support. This collaborative process ensures a pricing strategy tailored to your unique business needs.
Shelf Tags and Labels: Impactful On-Shelf Marketing
Eye-catching shelf tags and labels can make all the difference in a consumer’s purchasing decision. UNFI continuously innovates in this area, catering to shoppers’ desires for easy-to-read health attributes and nutritional guidance directly on shelf tags and labels. Well-designed, understandable tags and signs not only guide customers but also drive more sales in the aisle.
Accelerate Grocery: Making Learning Engaging
UNFI has also addressed the need for efficient and effective employee training with Accelerate Grocery. This learning and communication software is customized for grocers, offering microlessons reinforced over time to ensure retention. Turn training into a fun experience complete with games, points, rewards, and leaderboards. Employees stay engaged and motivated, even with just 3-5 minutes of training a day.
Earned Wage Access: Enhancing Employee Benefits
UNFI has partnered with Branch to provide Earned Wage Access, a tool that allows employees to access up to 50% of their earned wages before payday. This free benefit improves retention rates and shift coverage and supports the financial well-being of your staff, beginning on their very first day on the job. In today’s competitive job market, it’s crucial to be able to attract and retain quality team members and perks like this are a huge help.
AI-Powered Loss Prevention: Reducing Retail Theft
Retail theft is a persistent issue for grocery retailers, and it’s only going to become more of an issue as time goes on. UNFI now offers an AI-powered loss prevention solution from Veesion that integrates with your existing video surveillance system. It uses advanced deep learning to detect suspicious behavior, providing real-time alerts and reducing theft by up to 60%.
Each of these solutions shows our commitment to empowering retailers like you to work smarter, not harder. Operational efficiency isn’t just about having the right tools; it’s about integrating these tools into a system that works seamlessly with your business so you can deliver an unparalleled shopping experience to your customers.
If you’re interested in learning more about these efficiency tools, contact us today! Your employees, your customers, and your bottom line will thank you for it. Embrace efficiency and grow your business with UNFI.
