Twelve connected models read every facing, price, promotion and gap in a captured shelf — across millions of real store images, photographed weekly since 2009.
Since 2009, a specialist team has photographed British stores every single week — the shelf exactly as the shopper finds it. Cluttered, badly lit, half-restocked, gloriously real.
The 2009–2020 portion of the Archive no longer exists anywhere else. You cannot scrape it from the open web; it was never posted. You cannot licence it; no one else holds it. And a model can only invent what already looks plausible — not what a Tesco bakery aisle actually looked like on a Tuesday in 2014.
The same captured shelf, read four ways. Toggle a layer to see what Kanops extracts.
The same Themis weights that read today's shelves read the ones we photographed years ago. A 2014 Tesco household aisle and the same aisle type in 2026 — every facing, shelf-edge label, display unit and gap, found from the raw photograph. Drag to compare.
Every product box carries a brand, a category and a facing width. Summed across a bay, that's share of shelf — the % of visible space a brand or category holds, at that fixture, on that day. Because the same read runs every week, share of shelf becomes a trend line, not a snapshot: who gained space this Christmas, who lost it to a rival's display unit, and when the shift actually happened.
Most retail AI works in isolation. Kanops models share a single feedback loop — so a correction made anywhere compounds across the whole system.
Displays found, products cropped and categorised across 20 retail categories — from a single photograph.
→Prices and promotional mechanics read via OCR, validated against 138,000+ known products and 8,800+ verified brands.
→1.8M+ cross-model entries mean every correction improves detection, pricing and classification together.
Delphi turns 364,000 seasonal images into trade intelligence you query in plain English. 57 events, 17 years, every major UK grocery channel.
Discover Delphi →187,890 confirmed price observations across 53 seasonal events, read from the shelf itself — for £547 of OCR cost.
Share of shelf by category, retailer and region — cross-category spatial context from real store photography, proven with a global CPG partner.
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