Better grocery decisions start with a better data foundation
Afresh and Databricks help grocery retailers turn complex operational data into better decisions—from the distribution center to the store.
ABOUT AFRESH
Building the AI platform for grocery
Retailers use it to forecast demand, write orders, plan production, and estimate on-hand inventory across more than 12,000 fresh and center-store departments.
Retailers using Afresh have cut shrink by 25%, grown sales by 3%, and given store and buying teams back hours every week.
Three things set Afresh apart:
Data models built for the reality of grocery
Purpose-built models can handle the complexities legacy systems can't—from changing units of measure to cut paths to generic retail IDs—creating a more accurate foundation for AI-powered grocery decisions.
Decision engines that model probability
Probabilistic decision engines model perishability, inventory, and demand in ways that account for uncertainty to make profit-maximizing decisions across fresh and center store.
Adherence-driving UI & agentic workflows
Consumer-grade interfaces and agentic workflows make sophisticated AI easy to use, helping drive the adoption that tangible results depend on.
By solving fresh first—the most complex part of the store—Afresh built data models and decision engines designed for the realities of grocery: messy data, uncertain inventory, changing units of measure, and constantly shifting demand.
ABOUT THE PARTNERSHIP
A stronger data foundation. Faster business impact.
Afresh runs on Databricks. Together, we give retailers a faster path from fragmented operational data to AI-powered decisions—whether Databricks is already part of their technology stack or not.
Both paths lead to the same place: better grocery outcomes, delivered faster, on a stronger data foundation.
Retailers already on Databricks
Integrating Afresh brings more operational data into the Delta Lake and standardizes how it is structured.
A tighter Delta Sharing integration reduces the lift for IT, accelerates time to value with Afresh, and creates a cleaner, more consistent source of truth that can serve the broader business.
Retailers new to Databricks
An Afresh deployment can establish Databricks as a foundational data platform from day one.
Instead of building a one-off data pipeline solely for Afresh, retailers can centralize and standardize data in a governed foundation designed to support future use cases across the business.
Improved IT operations
Hours back for teams
Simplified integration
Less shrink
Better governance
Increased sales
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Afresh and Databricks bring AI-powered fresh and whole-store operations to grocery retailers, whether they are already on Databricks or just beginning to centralize their data.
To explore a joint opportunity or scope a pilot, reach out to the Afresh partnerships team.