Method for tracking and maintaining promotional states of slots in inventory structures within a store

A method for tracking promotional states of slots in inventory structures within a store comprising:

• dispatching a robotic system to navigate along an inventory structure within the store and to capture an image of the inventory structure during a first scan cycle;
• accessing the image of the inventory structure within the store;
• detecting a first slot in the inventory structure depicted in the image;
• identifying a first product type assigned to the first slot;
• retrieving, from a promotion schedule, a current promotion status assigned to the first product type;
• detecting a first promotional tag in the image;
• associating the first promotional tag with the first slot;
• extracting a first set of features from the first promotional tag detected in the image;
• interpreting a first promotion status advertised by the first promotional tag based on the first set of features;
• detecting a conflict between the first promotion status and the current promotion status;
• in response to detecting the conflict:
• flagging the first promotional tag;
• and
• generating a notification to investigate the first promotional tag at the first slot;
• and
• transmitting the notification to a computing device associated with a store associate.

A method for tracking promotional states of slots in inventory structures within a store comprising:

• dispatching a robotic system to navigate along an inventory structure within the store and to capture an image of the inventory structure during a first scan cycle;
• accessing the image of the inventory structure within the store;
• detecting a set of shelf faces in the inventory structure in the image;
• detecting a shelf tag on a first shelf face, in the set of shelf faces, in the image;
• delineating a slot above the first shelf face based on a position of the shelf tag in the image;
• extracting a first set of features from the shelf tag detected in the image;
• identifying a product type assigned to the slot based on the first set of features;
• retrieving, from a promotion schedule, a current promotion status associated with the product type;
• detecting an absence of a promotional tag indicating the current promotion status at the slot in the image;
• in response to detecting the absence of the promotional tag, generating a notification to install the promotional tag at the slot;
• and
• transmitting the notification to a computing device associated with a store associate.