BevNET Live Summer 2026 | Panel Recording Agentic AI is a freight train, and it’s already pulling into the station. The brands taking it seriously right now are the ones that will own shelf space, both physical and digital, two years from now. The rest will be writing case studies about what happened. At BevNET…
And, it’s happening where you can’t see it. There’s a number in McKinsey’s new food and beverage report that should stop every CPG brand leader cold. Small, independent brands made up just 15 percent of U.S. food and beverage sales by 2023 but accounted for 35 percent of all category growth by 2025. A sliver…
“We recently ran an 8-week promotion with a leading regional convenience store chain across Utah and leveraged Aisle AI’s platform to track performance in real time. The visibility we had throughout the campaign was a game changer. Instead of waiting for delayed reports, we were able to monitor key metrics like sales, velocity, and store-level performance as the promotion was happening….
(With a Distribution Plot Twist) The year was somewhere around 2002. San Jose Sharks game. I was minding my own business, enjoying the hockey game, when I encountered something that fundamentally broke my understanding of how ice cream was supposed to work. Dippin’ Dots. My first thought: “What in the world are these tiny frozen…
San Francisco, California, May 14, 2026 Via PRNewswire AisleAI, the Al-native retail analytics platform for consumer-packaged goods (CPG), today announced the launch of GAS (Guaranteed Activation Service), an industry-first subscription that guarantees monthly new store activations for emerging and challenger CPG brands. Built on AisleAl’s proprietary independent and small-chain c-store dataset and powered by its…
Or: How I Became an Accidental Field Research Agent for Utz Brands Let me tell you about my obsession. In the Sterbenc household, we don’t mess around when it comes to jalapeño potato chips. We’re connoisseurs. Critics. Some might say snobs, but we prefer “discerning enthusiasts.” Over the years, we’ve sampled every jalapeño chip that’s…
In a recent episode of the Agentee Digital Podcast, Chris Sterbenc from AisleAI sat down to discuss how real-time point-of-sale data is transforming the way CPG brands approach the convenience store channel. Here are the key topics we covered: Questions from the Conversation: The Bottom Line: Whether you’re launching a new product, hunting for white space, or trying…
Emerging CPG brands spend months chasing meetings with 7-Eleven, Circle K, and Casey’s. Meanwhile, there’s a $1M+ opportunity sitting right in front of them. We recently analyzed Liquid IV, a powder electrolyte brand that’s built solid distribution across the independent c-store channel. What we found will surprise most brands. The Data: Liquid IV has already…
You Only Need 5% of the Right Stores to Get There Recently, a $100M CPG brand came to us with a straightforward question: “Where’s our biggest growth opportunity in the Southeast?” Using the AisleAI platform, the brand discovered that the answer was simpler and more lucrative than they expected. The Analysis Using Fusion, AisleAI’s data…
See how AisleAI uses verticalized AI to help brands create compelling sell stories in the Craft Beer space.