-> Find out what real-time shelf compliance looks like.
Walk any aisle the day after a planogram audit and you’ll catch it. A tag curling off, a display scooted over to make room for a late shipment, products out of order because someone restocked fast to keep the line moving. Yet on the dashboard, that same store just scored 96% compliant.
That’s the everyday contradiction retail teams live with. Audits promise control, but what they really capture is yesterday’s shelf.
Audits were built to bring order, but they freeze a moment that’s already gone. Reps snap photos, upload them, and HQ runs reports days later. By the time the findings circle back, the store has already shifted again. And shoppers did what shoppers do: bought what was there and ignored what wasn’t.
It’s not that audits are useless. They just stop too soon. And when execution teams are going after that snapshot, they’re always playing catch-up instead of fixing the present.
Every retail team knows the routine: photos go up, reports come down, and somewhere in the middle, a week disappears. The delay itself isn’t ideal, but it’s the disconnect that breaks execution. Store teams see what’s wrong but can’t act without direction. HQ sees the data but not the shelf. So decisions stall in translation.
According to research by LTIMindtree, a ten-point rise in compliance can cut out-of-stocks by one percent. But here’s the kicker: about a quarter of those so-called stockouts aren’t true stockouts at all. The product’s there—it’s just sitting in the backroom or misplaced on the shelf, often because assortment plans and real store conditions drifted apart. It’s a problem about visibility, but also about communication.
Speed makes compliance cleaner and execution profitable. A shorter loop between detection and action means fewer missed facings and less of those awkward conversations about why “compliant” stores are still low on numbers.
Traditional compliance tools do a fine job collecting data. The next generation does something with it.
Adding another reporting layer won’t help. Retail field teams need a system that spots the problem, shows where it is, and helps fix it before the shopper notices.
The best tools today do a few things differently:
That’s what turns compliance from a box-checking exercise into a working rhythm that makes the data flow both ways: store to HQ and back again.
Vision Group built Store360 to close the lag between what the shelf shows and what the team can do about it.
Reps take a photo of the shelf, and within seconds, Store360 flags missing facings, pricing errors, misplaced displays. HQ sees the same feed, live. And the moment a fix happens, the score updates.
For field managers, that’s the difference between chasing problems and watching them disappear in real time. The Senior Director of Retail Execution at one of the top 5 beauty brands in the world put it best:
“The Store360 tool is so powerful. Photos plus reporting make it easy to get store managers to act.”
That’s the loop closing in action.
But visibility alone doesn’t keep shelves in shape. Once teams see issues instantly, the next challenge is keeping that rhythm going.
From there, ClickToWin keeps the loop alive, turning daily compliance into a simple game of progress for store teams. They earn daily scores, recognition, and rewards that make compliance something they want to maintain. It builds a rhythm of small wins that builds up across locations and regions.
Store360 and ClickToWin run on the same devices teams already use, so adoption isn’t a fight. As a result, the conversation shifts from “who missed this?” to “we already fixed it.”
Planogram compliance used to be the end goal: get the photo, prove the plan, hit the score. But the shelf has never waited for that.
When compliance becomes continuous, the goalpost moves. You’re not proving you did the work; you’re preventing what breaks it. That’s the shift Vision Group’s customers are making every day: keeping shelves aligned, promotions on time, and sales steady without adding more checklists or field hours.
If you’ve been running audits, reports, and store checks the same way for years, this is your moment to see how fast it can actually move. Book a personalized demo and we’ll show you.