Large-scale retail stocktaking: Secure your stocks
Fast, reliable, and audit-compliant inventories for all large-scale retail formats, from supermarkets to both food and specialty stores.
Tailor-made supermarket stocktaking
A tailored response to the demands of large-format retail
Whether you manage a hypermarket network, a DIY chain or a specialist retailer, your stocktaking requirements are both critical and highly specific. Self-service environments, high volumes, rapid turnover and tight end-of-month schedules all make stock accuracy essential to operational and financial performance. For more than 30 years, Fairson has supported food and non-food retailers with services adapted to each format, team structure and operational timetable.
Hypermarkets, supermarkets, garden centres and specialist chains: our methodology adapts to every configuration.
Proven field expertise
Turning stocktaking constraints into an operational advantage
Reduce pressure on internal teams while receiving reliable, actionable results immediately after the stocktake.
Improved reliability without tying up your teams
Our teams work independently or alongside your staff, depending on your organisation’s maturity.
Each assignment is supervised by a dedicated inventory manager who ensures count quality and on-site coordination.
- Neutral, independent control and accounting security
- Immediate reporting by area, zone or product family
- Rigorous counting: even during sales or peak activity
Timely delivery, even during peak periods
We understand that stocktakes are often scheduled during highly constrained timeframes: month-end, late closings or staggered hours. Fairson adapts its logistics to meet these challenges:
- Advance or urgent planning based on your needs
- Simultaneous delivery across multiple stores
- Live progress monitoring and real-time adjustment
- Reporting available immediately at the end of the stocktake
Our clients value our ability to meet operational constraints while delivering dependable data as soon as counting is complete.
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Large-format retail expertise embedded in our DNA
Our references include national and international retail brands across all large-format sectors. Their requirements have shaped our methodology.
- Adaptation by store area: department, aisle, bay, bin, promotional display, etc.
- Adaptation to product diversity and store constraints: barcoded and non-barcoded items, RFID tagging, and more
- Audit and accountant compliance: structured, auditable reporting
- Full or cycle stocktakes, aligned with site objectives
Fairson masters all large-format retail configurations, from hypermarkets to specialist chains, including garden centres and cultural retail formats.
Tools for fast action
Technology designed for field performance
We provide proprietary tools built around the operational realities of large-format retail:
- Live monitoring of counts and teams during delivery
- Immediate reporting by area, product family and quantity
- Full traceability of actions, checks and customised outputs
No client-side infrastructure is required. Our solutions are mobile, ready to deploy and fully autonomous.
Guaranteed flexibility and responsiveness
One-off or recurring stocktakes: a solution for every need
Adapt your stocktaking strategy to your operational rhythm.
Whether you require a one-off, seasonal or year-round programme, Fairson applies the same rigour and standards, without disrupting your business.
Year-end stocktake
Annual closing or audit certification? We deliver full or hybrid stocktakes validated by your teams, with complete traceability and total reliability.
Cycle counting
Maintain continuous stock accuracy without waiting for year-end. Targeted counts focused on high-volume or fast-moving areas to limit discrepancies.
Multi-site stocktaking campaigns
Fairson plans, manages and reports stocktakes simultaneously across multiple locations—one reporting format, one quality commitment.
30 years of retail expertise
Why choose Fairson for supermarket stocktaking?
- 30+ years of experience across food and non-food retail
- Coverage across France and Europe
- 17,000+ stocktakes delivered annually
- Trained in-house teams and proprietary tools
- Optimised scheduling aligned with your constraints
- Structured reporting compatible with audit and management control
- A rigorous, results-driven approach
Our objective: stock data that is fully up to date, reliable and delivered without overloading your teams.
Trusted by leading retailers
Each year, more than 650 French and European brands rely on Fairson to improve stock accuracy.
National groups, multi-brand networks, e-commerce players and logistics operators choose Fairson for its rigour, reliability and ability to deliver efficiently at scale.
Let's discuss your next inventory in supermarkets
Single store or national rollout, cycle or year-end stocktake—we tailor our support to your specific needs.
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Fairson supports a wide range of sectors including retail, large-format distribution, industry, healthcare, culture and leisure, adapting our services to each environment’s operational realities.
