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Sustainable Retail

Supporting stores with intelligent, connected, and long-lasting digital ecosystems to enable sustainable business models.   

Driving Efficiency and Sustainability

Digital Intelligence for a Lower-Carbon Retail Future

We believe that connectivity, geolocation, and data analytics of physical stores are key components in retail decarbonization. Digital technologies support better efficiency for e-commerce and omnichannel models, optimize logistics planning, enhance product traceability, and enable more precise shelf-life management.

Our Roadmap for Positive Commerce

Support Physical Stores With Intelligent, Connected, and Long-Lasting Digital Ecosystems to Enable Sustainable Business Models

  • Retail Associates

    Employee experience is improved thanks to versatile and efficient technologies. By ending tedious, repetitive and low value tasks, we allow employees to focus on customer service activities.

  • End Customer

    Electronic labels offer customers greater transparency. Retailers can better inform their clients to support more responsible consumption.

  • Local e-Commerce

    Retailers create micro distribution / shipping centers, thus avoiding the construction of fulfillment centers.

  • Transparent Information

    Supply chain data contributes to better flow and stock management, and better traceability (product origin, Nutriscore, Carbonscore) for all stakeholders.

  • Reducing Waste

    Better shelf management optimizes stock forecasting and sales. Retailers can adjust prices, promotions, or product placement when goods are nearing the end of their shelf life.

Turning Retail Into a Decarbonization Lever

Retail carbon emissions are primarily driven by Scope 3 (products sold, logistics, waste), which typically represents 90–95% of total emissions of the Retail business sector. 

Vusion’s Positive Retail program is designed to directly address this challenge by embedding digital intelligence into physical stores. By transforming them into low-carbon, efficient and data-driven assets, we enable measurable cutting in GHG emissions across our customers’ operations and value chains. 

Where the Impact Happens

  • Decarbonizing Logistics Infrastructure

    Local E-Commerce

    By leveraging our technologies, retailers turn existing physical stores into efficient local fulfilment centers for online commerce. This offers a sustainable e-Commerce solution and avoid Material CO2 emissions.

    By turning stores into micro-fulfillment centers, Vusion eliminates the need for new warehouses and reduces logistics intensity.

    Impact Mechanisms:

    • Avoided construction emissions for new fulfillment centers and biodiversity devastation
    • Reduced long-distance logistics flows
    • Optimized last-mile delivery through proximity 
    • Lower operational energy footprint 
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  • Immediate Emissions Avoided

    Food Waste Reduction

    Food waste is one of the most direct sources of avoidable emissions in retail. Vusion solutions (AI, computer vision, electronic shelf labels):

    • Detect products approaching expiry in real time 
    • Optimize pricing, replenishment and shelf management 
    • Reduce unsold inventory 

    Impact Mechanisms:

    • Less methane emissions from waste 
    • Avoided upstream production emissions 
    • Reduced unnecessary logistics 
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A Clear Impact Across the Retailer Emission Scopes

Scope 1 & 2 (operations):

Lower in-store energy use through automation and optimized processes 

Scope 3 (value chain – the core impact):

  • Less product waste 
  • Lower logistics emissions 
  • Reduced need for new assets (warehouses) 

Result: 

A systemic reduction of emissions intensity across the entire retail model, with the strongest impact on Scope 3—the dominant emissions category.

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Creating Positive Social Impact

Beyond reducing a global carbon footprint, our goal is to provide a positive daily experience for retailers and associates in commerce. We aim to enable a more diverse and fulfilling social connection in local communities by making stores more sustainable while offering transparent information to shoppers.

Our Actions

  • Empowering Retail Employees

    • Automate repetitive tasks 
    • Refocus on higher-value activities (customer service, merchandising) 
    • Improve working conditions and efficiency 

  • Enhancing Consumer Transparency

    • Reliable product information (price, origin, nutrition, carbon data) 
    • Support responsible purchasing decisions 
    • Improve trust and compliance with evolving regulations

  • Supporting Local Ecosystems

    • Reinforce local retail networks 
    • Reduce need for large logistics infrastructures 
    • Contribute to local employment with store-centric models

Efficiency, Transparency, Sustainability is the New Retail Model

Through Positive Retail, Vusion enables a shift from asset-heavy, waste-prone retail models to data-driven, low-carbon, circular retail ecosystems 

Technology becomes a direct lever for decarbonization, operational excellence, and social value creation. 

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