Food & Beverage Retailers Use Kimaru.ai to Reduce Product Spoilage and Optimize Markdown Strategies

Retailers in the food and beverage industry enhance margin performance and reduce inventory losses with AI-powered markdown optimization.

In today’s highly competitive food and beverage retail market, Kimaru.ai is helping businesses minimize product spoilage, optimize markdown strategies, and improve clearance pricing, ultimately maximizing revenue while maintaining food safety and customer satisfaction.

The Challenge

Food and beverage retailers frequently struggle with perishable inventory, leading to high spoilage rates and profit loss. Excess stock often results in last-minute markdowns, but without an optimized strategy, retailers either discount too steeply—eroding margins—or fail to sell through inventory in time, leading to waste. Traditional markdown processes are manual and inefficient, making it difficult to balance profitability with waste reduction.

The Solution

By utilizing Kimaru.ai’s Decision Intelligence Agents, food and beverage retailers can analyze historical sales data, expiration dates, and consumer purchasing behaviors. The AI identifies demand patterns and suggests optimal markdown levels at the right time to maximize sell-through rates before products expire.

During peak sales periods and daily operations, Kimaru.ai’s AI-driven recommendations provide real-time insights on when and how much to discount perishable items. The AI dynamically adjusts markdown strategies based on live sales data and remaining shelf life, ensuring that inventory is cleared efficiently while avoiding unnecessary deep discounts.

The Impact

By leveraging Kimaru.ai’s markdown optimization AI, food and beverage retailers are seeing:

Significant reductions in product spoilage, driving lower waste and improved sustainability metrics.
Stronger margin performance on perishable items, with optimized markdown strategies ensuring revenue growth and reduced discounting inefficiencies.
Improved sell-through rates, helping retailers move products faster while maintaining profitability.
Faster sell-through rates, ensuring products reach customers before expiration while minimizing overstock and last-minute discounting.

Retailers in the food and beverage industry are increasingly integrating Kimaru.ai’s AI platform beyond markdowns, applying decision intelligence agents to broader inventory management and demand forecasting. This AI-powered approach enables businesses to navigate the complexities of perishable goods retailing with greater efficiency, profitability, and sustainability.

For more information on how Kimaru.ai can help food and beverage retailers reduce spoilage and optimize markdown decisions please contact us.