Smart Shelves Market Report 2025

The smart shelves market size has grown exponentially in recent years. It will grow from $3.99 billion in 2024 to $4.79 billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.2%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to customer engagement, data-driven decision-making, supply chain optimization, enhanced shopping experience, reduction of out-of-stock incidents.

The smart shelves market size is expected to see rapid growth in the next few years. It will grow to $9.81 billion in 2029 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.6%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to contactless shopping preferences, rise of autonomous stores, demand for real-time pricing updates, customization of shelf displays, sustainable materials in shelf construction, global expansion of smart retail. Major trends in the forecast period include integration of RFID technology, automation for inventory management, electronic shelf labels (ESLs), focus on security and anti-theft measures, collaboration with e-commerce platforms, demand for real-time inventory visibility.

The smart shelf market is poised for growth due to the increasing trend of customer personalization and customization. Personalization involves tailoring a product to meet a customer's specific wants and needs, while customization refers to customers manually adjusting items to their specifications. Smart shelves play a pivotal role in enhancing customer personalization and customization, offering benefits such as retailer profit maximization and tailored shopping experiences. According to IBM Watson Advertising in January 2022, 56% of customers desire customized interactions with brands, and 70% of millennials are willing to allow companies to monitor their browsing and purchasing habits for a more personalized shopping experience. With 59% of customers emphasizing the importance of personalized engagement based on past interactions, the growing focus on customer personalization is expected to be a key driver for the smart shelf market.

The expanding e-commerce industry is anticipated to fuel the growth of the smart shelves market in the coming years. E-commerce involves the buying and selling of goods and services through the Internet and other digital platforms. Smart shelves enable real-time inventory tracking, helping e-commerce businesses prevent stockouts and overstock situations. For example, in November 2023, the International Trade Administration, a US-based government agency, reported that e-commerce revenues in the UK are projected to experience an annual growth rate of 12.6% by 2025. Additionally, consumer e-commerce made up 36.3% of the UK's total retail sector, with revenue expected to reach $285.6 billion by 2025. As a result, the growing e-commerce industry is driving the expansion of the smart shelves market.

Technological advancement emerges as a prominent trend in the smart shelf market, with major players focusing on innovative technologies to maintain their market position. For example, Unified Natural Foods Inc., a US-based natural and organic food company, introduced a smart shelf tag initiative in October 2022 based on Eli QR codes. This technology allows consumers to access product information while shopping in stores. Eli QR Codes, an enhanced and secure variation of QR codes, can be scanned to provide customers with detailed information about a product, including nutrition details, allergens, promotional offers, customer reviews, traceability information, and brand stories. This technological innovation is designed to enhance the customer shopping experience, reflecting the industry's commitment to staying at the forefront of technology in the smart shelf market.

Leading companies in the smart shelves market are strategically focusing on the development of technological innovations, particularly in the realm of smart data capture solutions, to establish a competitive advantage. Smart data capture solutions encompass integrated hardware, software, and connectivity systems designed to automate the process of capturing and transmitting data from physical objects or documents into digital formats. An illustrative example is Scandit AG, a Switzerland-based provider of smart data capture solutions, which introduced ShelfView in January 2022. ShelfView is a smart data capture and analytics solution specifically tailored for retail shelf management. Leveraging advanced computer vision technology, ShelfView captures and analyzes in-store data, including pricing and inventory locations, offering retailers real-time visibility into their store operations.

In August 2022, Zebra Technologies Corporation, a US-based mobile computing company, acquired Fetch Robotics Inc. for an undisclosed amount. This acquisition allows Zebra Technologies to expand its product portfolio by integrating Fetch Robotics' range of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), enhancing its capabilities in automation. Fetch Robotics Inc., based in the US, specializes in manufacturing collaborative autonomous mobile robots, including smart shelves.

Major companies operating in the smart shelves market are Happiest Minds Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Intel Corporation, Avery International Corporation, Honeywell International Inc., Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., NXP Semiconductors N.V., E Ink Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Software AG, Cisco Systems Inc., Trax Retail Inc., Minew Technologies Co. Ltd., SES-Imagotag SA, Pricer AB, SOLUM Europe GmbH, BOE Technology Group Co. Ltd., Lenovo PCCW Solutions Limited, Microsoft Corporation, Amazon.com Inc., Google LLC, IBM Corporation, Oracle Corporation, SAP SE, Zebra Technologies Corporation, Advantech Co. Ltd., NCR Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, Panasonic Corporation, LG Electronics Inc., NEC Corporation, Fujitsu Limited, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, Dell Technologies Inc.

North America was the largest region in the smart shelves market in 2024. Asia-Pacific is expected to be the fastest-growing region in the forecast period. The regions covered in the smart shelves market report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa. The countries covered in the smart shelves market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain.

Smart shelves are technologically integrated shelves equipped with sensors, digital displays, and RFID tags. They efficiently monitor inventory, offer product information, suggest cross-selling opportunities, and provide marketing insights. These shelves offer valuable data on customer preferences and buying behaviors for businesses. Typically deployed in retail stores, smart shelves automate inventory tracking.

Key components of smart shelves comprise hardware, software, and associated services. Hardware includes essential physical parts like the motherboard, CPU, RAM, and other critical elements of a computer system. Businesses of various sizes, from small and medium enterprises to large corporations, leverage smart shelves for functions like planogram management, inventory tracking, pricing management, and content management. They find applications in departmental stores, supermarkets, specialty stores, and similar end-user environments.

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The smart shelves market consists of revenues earned by entities by providing smart shelves services such as real-time stock information services, inventory management services, cross-selling suggestion, stock operations management. The market value includes the value of related goods sold by the service provider or included within the service offering. The smart shelves market also includes sales of digital display, detector system, satellite receivers which are used in providing smart shelves services. Values in this market are ‘factory gate’ values, that is the value of goods sold by the manufacturers or creators of the goods, whether to other entities (including downstream manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and retailers) or directly to end customers. The value of goods in this market includes related services sold by the creators of the goods.

The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD, unless otherwise specified).

The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.

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