How Does AI Empower Grocery Stores?
From traditional farmers’ markets in the 1990s to modern fresh food chain brands across the country today, driven by consumption upgrades and technological progress, China’s fresh agricultural product chain industry is experiencing rapid growth and change. By 2025, the market size is expected to reach 867 billion yuan, a 4% increase from 830 billion yuan in 2024. At the same time, as consumers’ requirements for food safety and quality are getting higher and higher, brands that can provide high-quality products and services are gradually standing out.
In this situation, Manpeng Grocery came into being. Founded in 2004, Manpeng Grocery was originally a professional vegetable distribution store.
The company gradually grew and began to try chain operations in 2009. In 2019, the Manpeng Grocery brand was officially launched and gradually developed into a full-industry chain enterprise integrating picking, sorting, sales and distribution. As of 2023, it has more than 300 stores.
Manpeng Grocery takes the “urban-rural bridge” as its core concept, connecting urban consumers with rural producers to ensure consumers can buy fresh and safe agricultural products. The success of Manpeng Grocery is not only reflected in the quantity but more importantly, it always adheres to high standards of product quality and service level to provide consumers with a high-quality shopping experience.
To cope with the increasingly fierce market competition and rapidly changing consumer needs, Manpeng Grocery actively embraced digital transformation. It cooperated with OVOPARK to jointly create a smart store management system.
By adopting the AI scene recognition + SaaS operation platform provided by OVOPARK, Manpeng Grocery has achieved intelligent upgrades in store operations. The store is equipped with newly upgraded monitoring equipment, which realizes all-round inspection coverage of the store environment.
In addition, an AI scene recognition algorithm suitable for Manpeng Grocery has been specially developed, which can automatically detect the hygiene conditions and product display in the store, and promptly remind the store manager to deal with it, greatly improving the efficiency of store management.
Turning store operations into technological management makes it more efficient and safer. Manpeng Grocery believes that in the future, digital management will play a vital role in store operations.
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