• Retail and Bespoke Inspections Across the UK

    Sell More & Waste Less. Independent data to improve in-store display, compliance and sales

    Short-notice inspections designed around your campaigns, standards, and goals. Improve merchandising, reduce waste, and stay aligned with your spec—nationwide.

     

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    Your Products Deserve The Best In-Store Delivery
    Spec-aligned retail inspections that give you clarity, control, and confidence

    For food retailers handling high-volume fresh and non-food products, visibility across stores is critical, especially during peak trading times. Audit Point's Retail and Bespoke Inspections provide fast, tailored data and assessment across your UK estate, checking product quality, merchandising, stock availability and planogram compliance. Our work supports busy buyers, technologists, and commercial teams who need to know what’s really happening on shelf, and how to improve it.

    Audit Point is a UK-wide specialist inspection provider with over 30 years of experience in food and retail auditing. Our strength lies in our independence, nationwide coverage, and our ability to tailor audits around your categories, campaigns or supplier base. Whether you’re preparing for Christmas or monitoring NPD compliance at launch, we deliver clear, actionable data, fast.

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    Why Choose Audit Point
    Clarity and confidence all over your stores and displays

    Our inspections are led by industry-qualified professionals, backed by a national field team and a bespoke digital platform. We don’t offer generic checklists. We design inspection programmes that reflect your goals, and your commercial context.

    Audit Point is not a mystery shop or a one-off audit. It’s a consistent, reliable stream of intelligence that empowers you to improve how your products are handled, displayed, and sold. We are experienced across fresh, floral, protein, ambient, and more. If it’s in store, we can inspect it.

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    What Our Retail Inspections Cover
    • Product condition and compliance against spec at SKU level
    • Stock availability and distribution gaps
    • In-store handling and presentation standards
    • Packaging, labelling and temperature checks
    • Planogram compliance and display execution
    • Campaign or seasonal set-up (e.g. Valentine’s Day, Wimbledon)
    • Competitor comparisons (optional)
    • Photography and visual scoring of key SKUs
    Benefits For Buyers and Technologists
    • Clear insight into store-level execution of your products
    • Real-time data on product condition and stock availability
    • Protect your brand during key trading events
    • Spot trends in supplier and store team performance
    • Reduce waste by flagging mishandling or poor stock rotation
    • Save time chasing validation—we do it for you
    • Use photo evidence to drive accountability and supplier improvement
    • Commercial reporting that supports ROI conversations internally

    How Retail Inspections Work

    We make it easy to gain real-world visibility across your estate. From setup to insight, our process is designed to support your team and reduce risk. We take care of deployment, data, analysis and reporting so you get answers, without adding to your admin.

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    Scope and KPIs Defined

    We start by agreeing the format, region, category, campaign or competitor focus. All inspections are bespoke.

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    Template Design and Review

    You approve inspection templates that reflect your brand standards and performance goals.

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    Team Deployment Nationwide

    We send trained inspectors to the right stores at the right time, including your own and competitor sites if required.

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    In-Store Data Collection

    We capture quality, handling, planogram, availability and competitor data, with photography and batch/shelf-life evidence as needed.

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    Fast Reporting and Dashboards

    Reports are delivered within 24–48 hours, with clear summaries, flags and category insights.

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    Trend Analysis Available

    Dashboard access lets you review quality or execution trends across time, SKUs, suppliers or stores.

    Benchmarking and Competitor Analysis

    Comprehensive studies on new store openings, product positioning, and competitor pricing strategies to help you stay ahead of your competitors.

    Seasonal Event Monitoring

    Targeted inspections around key retail periods such as Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween, and Christmas to assess availability, quality, and merchandising.

    Product and Category-Specific Studies

    In-depth evaluations on product lifespan, packaging integrity, and country-of-origin compliance. Includes day-by-day quality checks and shelf-life analysis.

    Floral and Fresh Produce Merchandising

    Assessments of visual merchandising, product arrangements, and unique category-specific metrics such as vase life and freshness.

    Shelf Space and Planogram Compliance

    Ensuring product store placement aligns with strategic planograms, maintaining optimal shelf space, and checking for compliance with retail standards.

    Product Launch Inspection

    Comprehensive inspections of new product launches; confirm product availability, quality and merchandising conform to pre-launch specifications.

     

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    Discover how our industry-leading reporting platform can be tailored to your business needs, giving you a competitive edge.

    • Request a demo of our custom-built data reporting platform
    • Explore sample reports tailored to your industry
    • Learn more about our comprehensive inspection processes
    • Book a free, no-obligation demo inspection

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