The numbers tell you which stores. Not why.
Arist finds the operational, management, customer, and frontline blockers behind retail performance, by asking the people closest to the work across your whole store network.
Asking has always been the expensive part.
Retail reporting is good at telling you where to look. Sales by region, turnover by site, adoption store by store.
What it cannot tell you is what the people there would say if you asked. Getting to that has meant a small sample, a survey nobody finishes, or a consulting engagement measured in months. By the time there is an answer, the season has turned.
Research across the store network
- 01
Analyze
Dozens of internal data sources, from sales and labor to operations, read together to find the critical problems rather than the visible ones.
- 02
Interview
Thousands of associates, shift leads, and store managers, interviewed by AI voice over phone, Teams, Slack, or a web link. No app and no login.
- 03
Surface
Root causes and blockers organized by role, region, and store, with analysis informed by hundreds of enterprise deployments.
Retail decisions Arist can help inform
- Commercial excellence
Why these stores, regions or initiatives are behind
Why do comparable stores or regions produce different results? Find the operational, management, and frontline reasons behind the gap.
Sales performance - AI transformation
Why the AI investment isn't returning what it should
Understand what is preventing effective AI usage, why investments aren't producing the expected return, and whether the problem is technology, access, policy, workflow, management or proficiency.
AI transformation
- 100sof managers interviewed
- A national retailer
At a national retailer, Arist interviewed hundreds of managers to understand a year of commercial missteps, and help unwind them.
- 300%lift in effective AI usage
- About $5M less AI spend, within 8 weeks
At one of the largest grocery chains in the US, Arist diagnosed what had been blocking effective long-term AI adoption.
You know which stores are behind. Find out why.
We’ll help you understand why, in under 72 hours.