System and method for selectively re-stocking inventory structures with stock of product from back-of-store inventory

A method comprising:

• during a scan cycle, by a mobile robotic system, autonomously navigating throughout a customer region of a store to capture images of inventory structures, arranged within the customer region, via an optical sensor integrated within the mobile robotic system;
• and
• by a computer system:
• accessing a feed of images captured by the mobile robotic system during the scan cycle, the feed of images depicting a set of inventory structures in the customer region of the store;
• for each product type in a set of product types:
• deriving a stock condition of a slot in an inventory structure, in the set of inventory structures, associated with the product type based on features extracted from a subset of images, depicting the slot, in the feed of images;
• and
• in response to the stock condition deviating from a target stock condition defined for the product type:
• inserting the product type into a re-stock list comprising a set of re-stock product types;
• and
• generating a product flag, in a set of product flags, for the product type and corresponding to a location in a back-of-store inventory region of the store associated with stock of the product type;
• accessing a first location of a mobile device, within the store, accessed by a user associated with the store;
• and
• in response to the first location falling within a threshold distance of a first product flag, in the set of product flags, corresponding to a first product type in the set of re-stock product types:
• generating a re-stock notification comprising a prompt to deliver a first quantity of product units of the first product type from the back-of-store inventory region to a first slot in a first inventory structure, in the set of inventory structures, in the customer region of the store, the first slot assigned to the first product type;
• and
• transmitting the re-stock notification to the user via the mobile device.

A method comprising:

• during a scan cycle, by a mobile robotic system, autonomously navigating throughout a store to capture images of inventory structures via an optical sensor integrated within the mobile robotic system;
• and
• by a computer system:
• accessing a first image comprising visual data captured by a mobile device accessed by a user associated with the store, the first image associated with a first location in a back-of-store inventory region of the store;
• based on features extracted from the first image, identifying a first product type, in a set of product types, represented in the first image;
• accessing a second image of a first slot in a first inventory structure in a customer region of the store, the first slot assigned to the first product type, the second image captured at a second time preceding the first time by the mobile robotic system during the scan cycle;
• based on features extracted from the second image, estimating a first stock condition for the first product type in the first slot at the second time;
• accessing a first set of point-of-sale data associated with the first product type and corresponding to a first time period preceding the first time and succeeding the second time;
• predicting a first quantity of product units of the first product type loaded in the first slot at the first time based on the first set of point-of-sale data and the first stock condition at the second time;
• and
• in response to the first quantity of product units falling below a threshold quantity:
• generating a re-stock notification comprising a second quantity of product units of the first product type and a prompt to deliver the second quantity of product units from the back-of-store inventory structure to the first slot in the first inventory structure in the customer region of the store;
• and
• transmitting the re-stock notification to the user via the mobile device.