Basket analysis
Average basket value and size, items bought together and the effect of promotions on the whole basket, by store, day and customer segment.
- Industries
- Retail, hospitality & services
- Grocery Chains
Grocery chains
Thin margins leave no room —
Thin margins leave no room —
for late or conflicting numbers.
TURBOARD brings till, stock, waste and supplier data from every store into one governed model, so grocery chains see baskets, categories, shrinkage and store performance from the same figures.
The challenge
In grocery, small percentages decide the year.
A grocery chain sells thousands of products across hundreds of stores, every day. Fresh products expire, shelves run empty, promotions shift demand between categories and suppliers deliver late or short. The data exists — in tills, warehouse systems, waste records and supplier files — but it rarely meets in one place, and a point of margin lost to waste or out-of-stocks is noticed only at month-end.
TURBOARD connects these sources once and calculates sales, margin, waste, shrinkage and availability from one set of definitions. Category managers, store operations and buyers work from the same model, each seeing the stores and categories they are responsible for. Comparisons with the same days last week or last year are a setting, so weather, holidays and promotions can be read clearly.
500K+business users work with TURBOARD
Since 2004enterprise BI engineering, founded in Chicago
Cloud or on-premisefully on-premise deployment, AI included
PatentedBI technology, including a granted US patent
What you can do
The grocery analyses that protect the margin
Category management
Sales, margin, space and share by category and subcategory, compared across stores and against the same period last year with Vis-a-Vis.
Fresh waste and shrinkage
Waste, markdowns and unexplained stock loss by product, department and store, with conditional formatting marking where losses exceed tolerance.
Availability and out-of-stocks
Products with zero or low stock while demand continues, tracked by store and supplier so gaps are closed before sales are lost.
Store benchmarking
Stores of similar size and format compared on sales, margin, waste and basket, side by side with patented dashboard cloning.
Supplier performance
Delivery accuracy, lead times, fill rates and the margin contributed by each supplier, from your own receiving and sales data.
Challenges & solutions
Where grocery margins leak — and how TURBOARD helps
?Waste discovered at month-end
Fresh waste and markdowns are totalled after the fact, when ordering habits have already repeated for weeks.
✓Waste in view by store
Waste and shrinkage refresh with the data, and scheduled reports send each store and department its own exceptions.
?Empty shelves, silent losses
Out-of-stocks do not appear in sales reports; they simply reduce sales.
✓Availability tracking
Low-stock and zero-stock products are flagged by store and supplier, with trends that show recurring gaps.
?Promotions that shift, not grow
A promotion lifts one product while the category and the basket stay flat.
✓Basket and category view
Promotion results are measured on the basket and the category, compared with comparable days before the campaign.
?Supplier issues argued anecdotally
Buyers discuss late or short deliveries without consistent figures.
✓Supplier scorecards
Fill rates, lead times and margin per supplier come from your own data, with KPI cards in the PER-S module.
JAS · Just Ask Simply
Ask about baskets, waste and suppliers in plain language
JAS, the AI assistant built into TURBOARD, answers from the same governed model your reports use. Ask a question and she finds the relevant data, builds the chart and edits it on command. With JAS Explain, a category or store dashboard comes with a written interpretation of what changed and why.
Explore JAS capabilities →JJASQuestions you can ask
- Which stores had the highest fresh produce waste as a share of sales last month?
- Show average basket value by store compared with the same week last year.
- Which suppliers had the lowest fill rate this quarter?
- Which products are most often bought together with bread?