F. Where to pilot
Two retailers drive ~37% of all tickets
If we test the program, this is where the signal will be loudest. A matched pilot (Wakefern or Kroger stores as test vs control) gets us a defensible before/after in one operating cycle.
Pilot candidates
Wakefern + Kroger
4,928 of 13,230 tickets (~37%).
Top 10 retailers total
6,949
Combined tickets across the top 10.
Recommended structure
Matched test vs control stores within one retailer; opportunistic (bundled) cadence; wheels and load cells first.
Tickets by retailer (top 10)
Green bars are the recommended pilot candidates. Everyone else is context.
Tickets per cart per year (TTM, active fleet)
Normalized by today's fleet (2,669 carts across 151 active stores as of 2026-07-06) against the trailing 12 months of tickets. Fleet-wide rate is 2.32 tickets/cart/yr. Raw volume favors Wakefern, but the failure rate per cart is highest at Schnucks and Kroger.
| Retailer | Deployed carts | TTM tickets | Tickets (all-time) | Tickets / cart / yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schnucks | 29 | 75 | 192 | 2.59 |
| Kroger | 137 | 344 | 2,297 | 2.51 |
| Wegmans | 48 | 75 | 78 | 1.56 |
| Wakefern (ShopRite) | 1,583 | 1,837 | 2,631 | 1.16 |
| Sprouts | 210 | 125 | 151 | 0.60 |
| Davis Food and Drug | 141 | 43 | 84 | 0.30 |
| Geissler's | 116 | 32 | 160 | 0.28 |
| McKeevers | 151 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Source: workbook "Fleet by retailer" — curated join of Freshdesk TTM tickets to today's PROD fleet. McKeevers shows 0 because those stores launched inside the TTM window with no reported tickets yet.