Retail Audit Services in India: Store, Stock & Merchandising Audits

Retail Audit Services in India: Store, Stock & Merchandising Audits

An Anaxee Digital Runner conducting a retail audit at a store in India
An Anaxee Digital Runner running a retail audit — availability, display and price, verified on the ground.
Quick answer: A retail audit is a structured on-ground check of what’s happening inside stores — product availability, display and planogram compliance, price and promotion compliance, and competitor activity — captured with geo-tagged, photo-backed proof. Anaxee runs retail audits end to end across India: the app, 40,000+ Digital Runners, the back office, and AI that checks every photo, as one partner.
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Your distributor’s billing tells you what shipped. It doesn’t tell you whether your product is actually on the shelf, whether the planogram is followed, what price the store charges, whether the promotion is running, or what the competitor is doing at the same counter. A retail audit answers all of it — store by store, with proof.

Most retail-audit buyers face a choice between two half-solutions: a survey app that gives you software but no people, or a field agency that gives you people but a thin tech layer and shallow rural reach. Anaxee is built differently — a technology company with its own 40,000+ field network, so you get both, with the quality control in between.

What a retail audit covers

  • Availability & out-of-stock — is your SKU on the shelf, and which competitor fills the gap when it isn’t.
  • Planogram & display compliance — shelf share, facings, placement and whether your merchandising is actually followed.
  • Price & promotion compliance — the actual shelf price, discount and whether the scheme is live and visible.
  • Competitor & POSM — rival display, scheme and shelf share, plus your branding and POSM at the outlet.
  • Outlet mapping & coverage — a full map of the outlets in a market, including the ones you’ve never reached.

Tool-only or agency-only — or all of it

A retail audit is only as good as the people and the quality control behind it. Software-only vendors hand you a form; traditional agencies hand you people but little technology and thin small-town reach. Anaxee gives you the whole stack — see the full picture on our retail shop survey page.

Proof — retail audits at scale
75,000+
retail outlets surveyed and audited across Anaxee projects
From 30,000 shops for Udaan to 14,500 electrical shops for APAR and 25,000 retailers for Welspun — audited shop by shop, geo-tagged and verified.
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Where technology and AI change the game

Every audit runs on the Anaxee Partner app — 100,000+ downloads, proven on projects reaching 3 million+ people — with an inbuilt training program per form and inbuilt per-field payment management. Every visit is geo-tagged and time-stamped, with shelf and POSM photos flowing to a live dashboard and REST API. Then AI reads the field photos — flagging a shelf shot that doesn’t match the brief, de-duplicating outlet lists and catching audits that never really happened — before a human QA team validates every record. That quality layer, plus deep Tier 2–4 reach, is where Anaxee beats both the app vendors and the traditional audit agencies.

Frequently asked questions

What is a retail audit?
A structured on-ground check of in-store execution — product availability, planogram and display compliance, price and promotion compliance, competitor activity and POSM — captured with geo-tagged, photo-backed records from each outlet.
How is Anaxee different from a retail-audit agency or a survey app?
Survey apps give you software but no people; traditional agencies give you people but a thin tech layer and shallow rural reach. Anaxee is a technology company with its own 40,000+ field network — so you get the app, the people, AI photo QA and a live dashboard from one partner, including deep Tier 2–4 coverage.
How do you make sure the audit is real?
Every visit is geo-tagged and time-stamped with shelf photos. AI reads the photos to flag mismatches and fabricated visits, and a human QA team validates against pre-set benchmarks; suspect records are rejected and redone.
Can you audit stores nationwide, including small towns?
Yes. With 40,000+ Digital Runners across 540 districts and 11,000+ pincodes, Anaxee audits modern trade and general trade in metros and Tier 2, 3 and 4 towns alike — from one city to all of India.

Run your retail audit with Anaxee

Anaxee scopes, staffs, runs and verifies retail audits end to end across India. Part of our retail shop survey and Go-To-Market work — by category, see electronics, electrical, mobile and clothing shop surveys, and our retail merchandising audit.

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