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One Stop Optimizes Selling Space with Galleria Customer-Centric Merchandising Solutions

"We are excited to be working with Galleria to turn our merchandising strategies into reality," said Mervin Nugent, Senior Range Manager, One Stop. "This combination of analytics and execution solutions will enable us to truly know our customers and meet their shopping expectations in every store. Galleria's Customer-Centric Merchandising solution is capable of producing store-specific planograms every few seconds which is essential to execute those strategies and achieve the benefits of store-level planning. Using Galleria, we can ensure that product offering and inventory levels reflect the sales pattern and space available in each store to avoid excess product, wastage or out-of-stock problems."

Galleria's Behavioural Cluster Planning solution will enable One Stop to cluster stores naturally based on consumer behavior. This unique clustering methodology utilizes granular product performance data such as historic sales, rest-of-market or manufacturer information, to create optimized cluster recommendations based on each category's unique consumer buying behaviour. As a result, One Stop's marketing and merchandising teams will be able to quickly identify clusters of stores with similar demand patterns, enabling them to develop truly customer-centric marketing, merchandising and space strategies.

To take its merchandising strategies to an even more granular level, One Stop will utilize Galleria's Midi Space Analysis solutions to evaluate each of its store's available space to optimize category space allocation and maximize selling opportunities.

Once its cluster and store-level merchandising strategy is established, One Stop will execute those plans with Galleria's Customer-Centric Merchandising solution. Using One Stop's own demand intelligence and store-specific sales data, Galleria's solution synchronizes the product assortment and space planning processes, allowing One Stop's merchandisers to apply supply chain and inventory rules at a granular level to automatically create up to thousands of optimized planograms in seconds.

"If a retailer wants to become truly customer-centric, it can no longer run on generic planograms based on enterprise averages," said Ian Duncan-Lewis, CEO, Galleria. "Performance-based clustering and midi space analysis are components that must be in place in order to execute an efficient customer-centric marketing, merchandising and assortment strategy to boost sales and satisfy customers. Our automated solution makes it possible for retailers to maintain centralized control and supply chain efficiencies, while taking into consideration local influence and demand. Ultimately, Galleria's application will enable One Stop to provide a better in-store experience by efficiently providing the exact products each customer requires."

About One Stop

One Stop is a retail convenience business with over 500 shops throughout England and Wales. Open 7 days a week One Stop aims to meet the needs of all its local customers. One Stop was part of T&S Stores plc, which was founded in Wolverhampton in 1975.

About Galleria Retail Technology Solutions

Galleria is the leading provider of customer-centric merchandising solutions. Galleria's solutions provide value by integrating with clients' existing systems and resources to deliver the right product to the right stores in the right capacity. The net result is that retailers and CPG manufacturers realize significant benefits including increased sales, enhanced margins, reduced waste/mark-down and accelerated inventory turns. Galleria currently works with customers including Wal-Mart, Tesco, Safeway, Morrisons, Giant Eagle and several of the world's leading retailers. It is currently engaged in multiple implementations of its merchandise planning solutions in large-scale live retail environments. For more information about Galleria, visit www.galleria-rts.com or dial 1-866-899-0852.

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