1-Day AI Workshop for Private Tutors · 22 Aug 2026 · Reserve your seat
p
Retail · 22 branches

+18% same-store sales — fewer stock-outs, smarter offers.

How a 22-branch premium grocery chain used AI to forecast demand, personalize outreach, and recover abandoned carts across its growing online business.

Industry
Retail · Grocery
Size
22 branches + online
Region
UAE
Engagement
12 months
The challenge

Where the numbers were quietly bleeding.

Best-sellers hit stock-outs every weekend while slow movers cluttered shelves. Their loyalty program had 180k members — used only at checkout. Online cart abandonment sat at 71%. The buying team worked off Excel from the previous month. Weekend marketing pushes were the same message to all 180k members — driving unsubscribes.

The Palmpixel solution

What we actually built — and why.

We built a per-SKU, per-branch demand forecast that fed directly into their PO system with human approval. A unified customer profile stitched POS, loyalty, WhatsApp, and online. Cart recovery flowed via WhatsApp within 45 minutes of abandonment, in the customer's language. Personalized weekend offers went only to members whose basket history suggested interest.

In the client's words
"Palmpixel didn't just build a forecast. They rebuilt how our buyers make decisions — with data instead of instinct."
Head of Category · Premium UAE Grocery Retailer
Headline results

Three numbers that changed the business.

+18%
Same-store sales
−27%
Stock-outs on top SKUs
AED 4.2M
Recovered cart revenue / year
p

12-month impact

Relative uplift · baseline vs. post-deployment
Same-store sales growth72%
Stock-out reduction78%
Cart-recovery lift82%
Repeat purchase rate68%
Marketing unsubscribes reduced58%
Before vs. after

What actually changed day-to-day.

Before

The old operating rhythm

  • 71% cart abandonment on online
  • Best-seller stock-outs every weekend
  • 180k loyalty members contacted with 1 message
  • Buying team on last-month Excel
  • 1.1× repeat purchase rate
After Palmpixel

The new operating rhythm

  • 55% cart abandonment (22% recovered)
  • Stock-out incidents down 27%
  • Segmented outreach: 12 personas, 6 offer patterns
  • Buyers on live demand model with approval
  • 2.6× repeat purchase rate
ROI · in AED

The honest arithmetic.

Investment: AED 425k across 12 months. Return: AED 4.2M recovered cart revenue + AED 8.6M attributed to demand-model gains and personalized marketing. Net ROI: 30.1× annualized.

p

Want a case study like this one for your business?

Get in touch and we'll map what will (and won't) work — with ROI numbers in AED.

💬 Talk to us