Closing the Gaps: How CartManager® Ultra Strengthens Store Operations

While automation often provokes fears of job displacement, innovative technologies like the CartManager® Ultra are emerging as workforce multipliers rather than replacements. Technology such as CartManager Ultra enables existing employees to work more productively and more safely.

Physical Demands: Cart collection remains one of retail’s most physically demanding tasks. Employees manually pushing carts face constant lifting, bending, and navigating uneven parking-lot surfaces, moving vehicles, and weather hazards.  Powered by a brushless direct current motor, CartManager® Ultra enables employees to collect up to 3 times more carts while significantly reducing the risk of injury. Labor hours associated with cart collection can be reduced up to 50%.

As retailers automate and integrate AI into the next decade, it isn’t always about eliminating positions.  Often the best opportunity is  to effectively deploy resources to accomplish more with the workers they have. The old model of throwing additional bodies at the problem no longer works when those bodies simply don’t exist.

Rethinking Cart Collection: From Labor Drain to Strategic Efficiency

Cart collection perfectly exemplifies retail’s potential labor challenge. It’s essential yet inefficient, physically demanding yet often undervalued, and traditionally resistant to innovation. Consider these realities:

  • Employees typically manage only 10 carts at a time due to safety concerns
  • Cart-related injuries spike during peak shopping periods when stores can least afford to lose workers
  • Weather conditions exponentially increase both injury risk and collection time
  • Manual collection pulls workers away from customer-facing activities, where they add more value

En CartManager® Ultra reimagines this equation. By enabling a single employee to safely manage up to 2 carts, a 150% increase over manual collection,  it doesn’t replace workers but amplifies their capabilities. This is workforce multiplication, not substitution.

Learn more about how CartManager® Ultra can help fill the gaps and increase your efficiency aquí

 

 

Acerca de Gatekeeper

El conjunto ampliado de productos de soluciones de carros inteligentes de Gatekeeper Systems ofrece soluciones para las necesidades de CADA minorista con el fin de minimizar la pérdida de mercancías y reducir los gastos en activos y mano de obra.

Las soluciones de prevención de pérdidas y contención de carros de Gatekeeper utilizan tecnología de bloqueo patentada para poner fin a los hurtos en carros, las pérdidas de carros de la compra y la toma de decisiones desinformadas. Las soluciones de gestión de carritos aumentan la seguridad y reducen los costes de mano de obra al maximizar la productividad, al tiempo que dan una imagen positiva de la tienda.

Las soluciones inteligentes de prevención de hurtos por empuje impiden que los ladrones y sus carros llenos de mercancía sin pagar salgan de la tienda. La tecnología personalizable permite a los minoristas defender toda su tienda o solo un departamento de grandes pérdidas en función de la distribución exclusiva de la tienda.

Las soluciones de Inteligencia Empresarial proporcionan una mayor visibilidad para una toma de decisiones informada. Aumente la eficiencia, optimice el tamaño de la flota y perfeccione toda la experiencia de compra del cliente con análisis a nivel de tienda y de empresa.

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