OBSERVING & BLOGGING
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Product Voids: A Frustrating Reality for Consumer Packaged Goods Brands
Let's be real. There's nothing more frustrating for a CPG brand than a product void. You've worked hard to create an amazing product. You went through the whole process of iterative R&D and field testing. You figured out branding and packaging. You got production...
Smarter negotiations with shelf data
Below is an interview with Hugh Holman, the CEO and Co-Founder of Observa. You worked at a CPG brand prior to founding Observa. What challenges did you face while working there? When I worked at Aqua Star, I wanted to help buyers to optimize their planograms by using...
Shelf-level data is the new POS data
The following is an interview with Joseph Peck, the COO of Observa. Could you provide a brief overview of Category Intelligence? Category Intelligence is a single source of truth for CPG brands. It brings together the metrics that matter, so you can make data-driven...
Know Your Shelf With Category Intelligence
The following is an interview with Erik Chelstad, the CTO of Observa. Could you provide a brief overview of Category Intelligence? Observa adapts quickly to the retail environment by being constantly in it. We have hundreds of thousands of Observers in stores across...
Quick Feature Overview of Observa’s Customer Portal
Getting Started This is meant to be a quick introduction to the features of Observa’s customer portal and reporting. Not a full documentation on everything, as you should login and try it out with your data. We made it to explore and discover! Landing Page This...
The Journey of Shelf Scout
At the beginning of 2020, a pandemic was on its way, and no one was quite sure how to handle it or what effects it was going to have. Specifically, for our company, the majority of our customers are in the consumer packaged goods business, and we were starting to see...