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What is paper actually costing you?

Move the sliders to match your operation. Every assumption behind the math is printed underneath the result, because a number you cannot audit is not worth quoting to your CFO.

Roughly one per facing. A full-line supermarket usually lands between 10,000 and 20,000.
Ad breaks, cost moves, competitive matches and markdowns combined.
Print, sort, walk, kneel, swap, verify — amortized across the batch, not the best case.
Wage plus payroll tax and benefits, not the posted hourly rate.
Produce, meat, deli, bakery and dairy. Used for the shrink and accuracy lines.
Percentage of perishable revenue written off today.
Annual recoverable cost
$0
Across 0 labels. Labor, pricing accuracy and shrink combined.
Aisle labor eliminated0 hrs
  → value of that labor$0
Pricing-accuracy leakage recovered$0
Shrink recovered by timed markdowns$0
Hardware & install (one time)$0
OmniCloud platform$0/yr
Net, year one$0
Payback period—

Assumptions in this model. Hardware and install budgeted at $9 per label and one access point per 400 labels at $260. Platform at $0.55 per label per year. Pricing-accuracy leakage held at 0.35% of perishable revenue, covering shelf-to-register mismatches and re-scan credits. Timed markdowns credited with recovering 25% of current perishable shrink. Years two onward carry the platform fee only, so the annual figure repeats without the capex line.

This is a planning model, not a quote. Real pricing depends on label mix, store layout and volume. We would rather you pressure-test these assumptions now than discover them in month nine.

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Where each line comes from.

Four inputs, three savings lines, one cost line. If you disagree with an assumption, change the slider or tell us and we will run it your way.

LINE 1 · LABOR

The person walking the aisle

Labels × weekly change rate × 52 × seconds per change, converted to hours and multiplied by your fully loaded rate. This is the line most operators underestimate, because the work is spread across many people rather than sitting in one budget.

LINE 2 · ACCURACY

The gap between shelf and register

Paper stores carry a persistent mismatch: a price changed in the POS on Monday and on the shelf on Wednesday is wrong for two days. We model the resulting credits, honored shelf prices and re-scans at 0.35% of perishable revenue, which is deliberately conservative.

LINE 3 · SHRINK

The markdown that came too late

A quarter of perishable shrink is timing rather than spoilage: the discount that would have sold the item lands after it stopped being sellable. FreshClock moves that decision earlier, so we credit 25% of your current shrink, not all of it.

✓ What we counted

  • Direct aisle labor for price maintenance.
  • Credits and re-scans from shelf-to-register mismatch.
  • Shrink recovered by markdowns firing earlier.
  • Hardware, install, access points and the platform fee.

× What we left out

  • Paper, toner and printer maintenance. Real, but small.
  • Retail media revenue from the shelf edge. Upside, not a case.
  • Faster competitive response and the margin that protects.
  • Labor redeployed to service rather than removed from payroll.
Deliberately excluded Every one of these makes the case better. We would rather the number you take to your board be one you can defend line by line.

Now get the real number.

Send us your store count and label count and we will come back with a hardware plan, a fixed install quote, and a single-department pilot you can measure against this model.