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SimStore Layout Simulator

Objectives

The main objective is to "improve shopping experience":
  • Reduce congestion
  • Save time for customers
  • Increase impulse purchases
  • Increase cross product sale
Simulation Strategy

Visual Representation
  • Establish an encoded representation
  • Display store layout
  • Use customer checkout data to display high density purchase locations
  • Assess the distribution of hot and cold spots in the store
Top-down approach
  • Estimate High density customer flows by linking most popular locations
  • Optimise (Minimise or maximise) the length of "most popular customer path"
  • Optimise the distribution of hot / cold spots
 Bottom-up simulation
  • Simulate customer movements using their shopping lists (from checkout, handscan),
  • Observe emerging congestion patterns in the store,
  • Derive Customer Path Densities by adding all customers footprints,
  • Optimise Store Layout with a view of customers (customer type and time) in mind.
Optimisation Strategy

Optimise Store Layout so that it will satisfy multiple objectives:
  • Minimise Congestion,
  • Maximise Impulse Purchase Opportunities
  • Maximise Cross Product Sales
  • Maximise time saving for purchasing other items
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