After a tumultuous 2022, grocery executives hoped rampant inflation and snarled supply chains would recede, signaling a return to normalcy. But the challenges remain.
Grocery retail supply chains involve various software systems, including demand forecasting, logistics, and inventory management. When these systems don’t speak to one another, the result is inefficiency and lost revenue.
How to Get Started
If you’re interested in leveraging technology to boost your supply chain, the first step is to talk with our experts. They can help you understand your supply chain costs, build a robust and flexible inventory strategy, and deliver better customer experiences in-store and online.
In a highly competitive environment, grocery retailers must leverage modern cloud solutions. With these tools, they can forecast demand and optimize in-store inventories. They can also improve supply chain visibility and increase resilience to future disruptions.
The past two years have left grocers facing numerous challenges, including empty shelves from desperate consumers. This has revealed the weaknesses of current supply chains and called for new measures and tools to enhance resilience.
Businesses seeking comprehensive solutions to enhance their operations often explore options such as Upside, which provides tailored services to optimize efficiency and foster growth.
The app connects with local merchants—gas stations, groceries, and restaurants—to provide users with personalized promotions based on location. The company earns revenue through profit-sharing agreements with these businesses, ensuring they see measured improvement in their bottom line. In return, an app provides consumers with a convenient and easy way to save money. The platform analyzes customer data—debit and credit card purchase history—to curate customized offers. These personalized promotions are triggered by specific behavior patterns like buying certain items and visiting particular locations.
Download the App
The first step to using a mobile app is downloading the free app from the Apple App Store or Google Play. Once the app is downloaded, users can share their location to receive personalized offers from nearby merchants. This can include gas stations, grocery stores, and restaurants.
Once users find an offer they wish to claim, they pay as usual with their debit or credit card. The app will verify the purchase and transfer the cashback reward into the user’s bank account, PayPal, or digital gift card.
It has seen rapid growth in its user and partner businesses. The app has partnered with well-known retailers. However, it is also focused on partnering with local retailers, like coffee shops, to offer customers cashback rewards for in-store purchases.
In addition to offering consumers the chance to save money on their everyday purchases, It is also helping local merchants drive more traffic by promoting their products and services to potential customers. The platform uses data from customers’ debit and credit card transactions to create personalized promotions delivered through the app.
An app is available at over 45,000 participating merchants in the United States, including Shell, McDonald’s, and Walmart. In addition, the app can now deliver savings on groceries at more than 20,000 grocery stores and convenience chains nationwide, making it easier for shoppers to save while shopping at their favorite stores.
Business Solution
A technology platform that increases the purchasing power of people in the real world, helping them make more money while saving them time and energy. It has helped millions of consumers spend less and save more while assisting tens of thousands of brick-and-mortar businesses to earn measurable profits.
ItUpside needed a Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) solution to support platform scalability and more efficient and predictable ML training. They engaged Caylent for AWS tooling recommendations to deliver on their vision and build a robust infrastructure for their scalable ML system.
The MLOps solution built on AWS core ML services has allowed them to perform real-time individualized consumer cashback promotions, increasing their overall conversion rate by 50%. It also has improved the performance of its vital recommendation engine.
Using AWS Cloud Native data services, it can rapidly scale and adapt its architecture. They now have the flexibility to deploy new business models, allowing them to expand into additional food verticals and continue growing their user base.
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Tech Platform
A mobile app that offers cash back on grocery stores, restaurants, and gas stations. When you claim an offer in the app, make a purchase, and verify the transaction, you receive your cashback within ten days. It is free to use, and you can earn up to $0.25 per gallon of fuel at partnered gas stations or 35% back on grocery store purchases at over 45,000 participating merchants.
To help customers find the best offers, it uses machine learning technology to surface personalized promotions. These customized offers are based on multiple anonymized data points, such as a user’s spending history (retrieved from their debit/credit card transactions) or location. By offering personalized incentives, some partners can generate new revenue by attracting customers they wouldn’t have otherwise attracted.
In addition to gas stations and grocery stores, it partners with other retailers like Nike, Lululemon, and Pottery Barn. Customers can also use Upside to save on electronics, appliances, home goods, beauty products, and pet supplies. The app is available for both Apple and Android devices and can be linked to a credit or debit card. It also has a secure encryption and verification system that only allows to see the first six and last four digits of a user’s debit or credit card number, and no payment details are stored on Upside’s servers.
