How to Fix Stagnant Retail Data and Apply It Where It Matters Most — In Stores

By Kelly Jacobson | July 14, 2025

Your Retail Data Is Talking. Are You Listening?

If you’re leading visual merchandising in a large retail organization, you’re surrounded by data — but not the kind you can act on.

Dashboards, spreadsheets, printed reports…

And still, your team struggles to execute faster, smarter, or more consistently in stores.

The truth is: Most retailers don’t lack data. They lack direction.

While leadership pushes for hyper-localization, tighter accountability, and stronger proof of ROI…

You’re stuck using tools that don’t reflect what’s actually happening on the floor.

This isn’t a visibility issue.

It’s a data-to-action gap, and it’s holding back your results, your team, and your strategy.

The Data-to-Action Gap, Explained

Let’s say a display drove a sales lift in a few key stores.

Was it the signage? The product mix? Or flawless in-store execution?

Now imagine that same display underperformed in others:

Was the reset delayed? Was the content incorrect or unavailable? Did stores even receive what they were supposed to?

Without a way to connect planogram assignments, content distribution, compliance rates, and sales outcomes, you’re left guessing.

And when you’re guessing, you can’t scale what’s working (or fix what’s not) in time to make a difference.

Remember: You can’t manage what you can’t measure.

And you can’t measure what you can’t see.

Store Insights: The Missing Link Between Data and Results

That’s why we built Store Insights, the first retail analytics solution designed specifically for visual merchandising.

More than another dashboard, it’s a retail intelligence layer that connects your planning, execution, and performance data in real-time:

  • Define KPIs across planogram compliance, campaign lift, inventory health, and task resolution.
  • Track live execution: Visibility into compliance photos, issue counts, login activity, and regional trends.
  • Search by campaign, store, fixture, content type, vendor, or floorplan.
  • Monitor campaign health: Stock availability, total cost, vendor data, and content coverage.
  • Customize dashboards for HQ, field teams, and store associates.

This isn’t static BI retrofitted for merchandising.

It’s precision retail analytics — built to connect strategy to results, in the real world. It’s digitized, dynamic, and deeply usable data.

From Static Reports to Real-Time Results

Visual merchandising isn’t about shelf diagrams anymore.

It’s about delivering brand consistency, driving ROI, and creating measurable lift — store by store.

But you can’t do that if you’re working with outdated data, fragmented tools, or lagging reports.

Store Insights makes visual merchandising measurable and actionable:

  • Track execution and compliance across every store and campaign.
  • Monitor real-time content fulfillment and inventory levels.
  • Spot SKU-level performance trends before they snowball.

And it speaks your language. Ask questions like:

“Which fixtures underperformed this week?”
“Where did compliance dip last month?”
“What’s our best-performing region for the back-to-school campaign?”

Our AI-powered chatbot delivers answers instantly — complete with charts, summaries, and suggested next steps.

No SQL. No delays. No guesswork.

Whether you oversee 300 stores or 3,000, Store Insights gives you real-time retail analytics — tuned for how merchandisers think and act.

Why Now?

Because disconnected data doesn’t just create inefficiency. It creates unnecessary risk.

  • If store teams can’t see what’s working, they can’t execute.
  • If executives can’t measure impact, they can’t invest.
  • If merchandisers can’t connect the dots, they can’t lead.

Store Insights fixes that — without disrupting your tech stack.

Powered by One Door’s Digital Store Model and AI-led analytics engine, it integrates seamlessly with your architecture (including Snowflake, Microsoft OneLake, and more) to deliver fast, flexible, and future-ready insights.

No more noise. Just clarity, confidence, and control.

Read how a leading consumer electronics retailer magnified their merchandising data with Store Insights.

From Insight to Execution

Store Insights was built for leaders like you — the few responsible for turning strategy into shelf-level impact.

Whether you’re:

  • Building an in-store data strategy
  • Unifying disconnected analytics
  • Or connecting visual merchandising to store performance

Store Insights helps you turn insight into action — and action into measurable results.

Ready to bridge the data-to-action gap?

Request a demo to see how Store Insights helps visual merchandising teams digitize, connect, and lead with the data that matters most.