What is Cooler Screens?
Cooler Screens is a technology company revolutionizing the in-store retail experience by transforming traditional cooler doors into IoT-enabled digital smart screens. These displays provide consumers with real-time product information, promotions, and nutritional details, enhancing decision-making at the point of purchase. Retailers and brands benefit from dynamic merchandising opportunities and valuable shopper insights, all delivered through a platform designed with consumer privacy in mind.
Key Features:
Enhanced Shopping Experience: Offers consumers the ease, transparency, and relevance of online shopping directly within brick-and-mortar stores, empowering informed purchasing decisions.
Advanced Technology Integration: Utilizes IoT sensors, edge computing, and AI to deliver dynamic content that adapts to shopper behavior and context in real-time.
Privacy-Centric Design: Operates on an "identity-blind" framework, ensuring consumer privacy by not collecting or using any personally identifiable information.
Overview
Cooler Screens transforms traditional cooler doors into IoT-enabled smart screens, enhancing the in-store shopping experience by delivering real-time product information, promotions, and dynamic content.
My role focused on bridging the software front-end and IoT hardware teams to deliver a cohesive, seamless experience for retailers and consumers. Additionally, I led the development of the retailer app, empowering store managers with intuitive tools to manage and optimize cooler operations.
Key Contributions
1. Pilot Program Execution with Walgreens and Target
Collaborated with Walgreens and Target corporate and store manager leads to roll out and refine Cooler Screens across the first 50 pilot stores.
Gathered actionable feedback to iterate on product functionality and ensure alignment with retailer needs and expectations.
2. Seamless Software-Hardware Integration
Coordinated efforts between software front-end and IoT hardware teams, delivering a cohesive and reliable in-store experience for both shoppers and store personnel.
Resolved integration challenges swiftly, minimizing downtime and optimizing performance across pilot locations.
3. Retailer App Development
Designed and delivered a retailer app that enabled Walgreens store managers to monitor, control, and troubleshoot cooler screens easily.
Improved operational efficiency by 30% through streamlined workflows for content management, troubleshooting, and system updates.
Impact
Successfully deployed Cooler Screens in Walgreens’ first 50 pilot stores, driving operational insights and building a foundation for broader 2500 store rollout.
Enhanced store manager satisfaction and productivity by delivering intuitive tools tailored to their daily workflows.
Strengthened collaboration between Cooler Screens and Walgreens corporate, aligning product capabilities with retail needs.
Leveraged technical product management skills to succesfully launch integrations with retailer back end data infrastructure and pricing requirements
A pivotal achievement was the development of the Planogram Editor, a web application designed to seamlessly integrate with store manager PDAs. This tool empowered Walgreens store managers to:
Easily update and manage cooler screen layouts, ensuring accurate product placement and promotions.
Streamline operational workflows, reducing manual errors and improving efficiency across pilot stores.
Drive adoption and engagement, serving as a critical component of Cooler Screens' successful deployment and scalability.
The Planogram Editor became a cornerstone for enabling the smooth operation of Cooler Screens in Walgreens' pilot stores, directly contributing to the success of the rollout and future expansion plans.
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