As the retail industry faces never before seen challenges, the need to provide and maintain inventory—the right inventory—becomes even more mission critical. In-store data, captured reliably and predictably, fuels analytic solutions that drive these mission critical inventory decisions. To address this new reality, autonomous mobile shelf scanning robots are quickly becoming a go-to tool for retailers struggling to balance the need for greater data capture while facing labor shortages for what have traditionally been labor intensive tasks, like shelf scanning.