Trend Analysis and Insights helps you spot what’s changing in your business using clear, repeatable query patterns — not custom reports. With Hank inside Retail+, you can check rolling performance, surface declines, identify growth, and rank what’s driving profit, all from the same underlying measures.
It’s built for day-to-day decision making: what’s drifting, what’s working, what’s worth backing, and what needs attention.
A typical day with Trend Analysis and Insights — find the signal, then act on it
- Morning
- You start with a clean trading pulse. You ask Hank: “What are my rolling total sales for this week, this month and this quarter?”
- You anchor the day in the current run-rate, not last week’s recap.
- Noon
- You check for early drift. You ask: “Are there any departments that have declining sales?” then “Give me 3 departments where sales are declining month on month over the past quarter.”
- You spot the slide while it’s still small enough to fix.
- Afternoon
- You look for where momentum is building. You ask: “List the categories that have the highest growth by margin in descending order.”
- You can see where profit is accelerating, and where it isn’t.
- Late afternoon
- You identify growth you can lean into. You ask: “Name 5 products where sales have been increasing by 5% every month for the past 3 months.”
- You find consistent growers, not one-off spikes.
- Evening
- You sanity-check the unit economics on a key item before you make a call. You ask: “What is the gross margin and gross profit for Bananas over last week and last month?”
- You keep decisions grounded in both margin and dollars, over time.
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Impact across your team
This feature gives teams a shared, repeatable way to track change and prioritise attention — without reinventing analysis each week.
- CEOs
- You get a consistent view of the big levers: rolling performance, profit concentration, and where margin growth is coming from.
- COOs
- You can identify drift early, prioritise problem departments, and focus operational attention where it will change outcomes fastest.
- Store Managers
- You can quickly see what’s slowing, what’s growing, and which products are carrying the week — then brief your team with clearer priorities.
- Buying Managers
- You can find high-margin products that are actually selling, identify suppliers driving margin above meaningful sales thresholds, and focus time on what will move profit.
- Category Managers
- You can track growth inside categories, surface consistent movers, and use margin-growth ranking to guide where to invest space and effort.
- Team members on the shop floor
- You get clearer focus on what matters this week — the departments and products that need attention — without relying on printed reports.
