Seventeen years of retail, photographed week after week — British supermarkets in depth, with captures across Europe and the US. A record of the shelf that exists nowhere else on earth.
Most retail intelligence begins the day someone decides to look. Ours began in 2009, and never stopped. A specialist team has walked into real stores every single week for seventeen years — British supermarkets in depth — and photographed the shelf exactly as the shopper finds it — cluttered, badly lit, half-restocked, gloriously real.
There is no synthetic shortcut to this. You cannot scrape it from the open web; it was never posted. You cannot licence it; no one else holds it. And you cannot generate it, because a model can only invent what already looks plausible — not what a Tesco bakery aisle actually looked like on the second Tuesday of November 2014.
The same category of fixture, twelve years apart — a Tesco household aisle in 2014 and again in 2026.
The 2009–2026 portion of the Archive no longer exists anywhere else. Not in a competitor's warehouse, not on the web. It is, simply, gone — except here.
Figures current to 2026 · the Archive grows by ~1.8M cross-model learning entries and thousands of fresh captures every week.
A single captured shelf is not one measurement — it is many, layered. Most systems read in isolation: one detects, another prices, a third never speaks to either. Kanops reads the way a category manager would, with every observation informing the next.
Point-of-sale messaging is detected and transcribed — here, a seasonal bakery banner — so you know not just what's on shelf, but how it's being sold.
Each product is cropped and classified against a catalogue of 138,000+ known lines — brand, line and pack format, at 97% confidence.
The shelf-edge label is read by OCR and validated against the catalogue — no manual audit required.
Out-of-stocks are detected and prioritised for restock — the absence on shelf is as measurable as the presence.
The shelf, recorded for seventeen years, read by models that keep learning — and now open to a limited number of retail, brand and research partners. Tell us what you're trying to see.
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