Meet Ariadne at Groceryshop 2026
Twenty minutes in Las Vegas, booked before you fly. Bring a floor plan and a number you do not trust: entrance counts that disagree with the tills, aisles that never get the traffic the planogram promised, or checkout queues that keep outrunning the staffing plan.
- Dates
- September 22 – 24, 2026
- Venue
- Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Format
- Attending, not exhibiting: meet us over coffee
- Channels
- Grocery, mass, drug, club, convenience, dollar
Tickets run through Groceryshop directly. Official registration
Pick a time at the show
- Twenty minutes over coffee, anywhere in the venue, at a time you choose.
- You describe one store and one measurement you do not trust today.
- We show what our sensors would report there, and what they would not.
- No slide deck unless you ask for one.
Already deployed
What this has been worth to a retailer
WEKO ran Ariadne's people flow analytics across its stores and measured 20% traffic growth and a 40% sales lift. Watsons lifted traffic 20% in one week with cross-promotional campaigns built on the same counts. The numbers a meeting starts from are the ones these retailers published.
- 40%
- sales lift at WEKO with people flow analytics
- 20%
- traffic lift in one week, Watsons cross-promotion
- 46.3%
- QR click-through at NRF Big Show, 1,900 visitors
What twenty minutes covers
Your floor plan on the table: where sensors would go, what they would report there (entrance counts, capture rate, aisle and zone traffic, dwell, queue times), and what they would not. If you already run counters, bring last month's numbers and we will talk about why they disagree with the tills.
How the counting works
Ariadne measures this with Hybrid Fusion, its patented camera-free method. Time-of-Flight depth sensing counts every visitor at the entrances, capturing geometry rather than images, while patented phone signal sensing follows movement through the interior, detecting the signals a phone emits even in airplane mode, and tracks that movement to about one-metre precision. The sensor streams both feeds to Ariadne, where Hybrid Fusion combines them into one trajectory per visit and computes counts, dwell, and paths. The streams carry no identifier: no MAC address, no device ID, no biometric data, and no camera is involved. Identifiers are stored only when a visitor explicitly opts in, which keeps the method GDPR-friendly and outside biometric territory.
Why retailers pick a camera-free counter
Nothing personal is captured at the sensor: no face, no demographic inference, no identifier. There is nothing to anonymise after the fact, and nothing for biometric privacy laws to attach to, which is a structural answer rather than a compliance project.
The measurement itself, the accuracy figures, and the comparison against camera-based counters live on the people counting page.
Before the show
Questions we get asked on a stand
Is Ariadne exhibiting at Groceryshop 2026?
No stand this year. The team attends all three days, September 22 to 24 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, and takes meetings anywhere in the venue. Book a time above, or reach us through Groceryshop's own meetings program, and we will confirm where to find each other.
Do you use cameras?
No. Ariadne counts with Hybrid Fusion: Time-of-Flight depth sensing plus patented phone signal sensing, never cameras. Time-of-Flight captures geometry rather than images, and signal sensing captures no MAC address by default, so the measurement involves no video, no faces, and no biometric data.
Can it measure checkout queues?
Yes. The same zone measurement that drives airport security queues applies at checkout: how many people are in the queue zone, how long they wait, and an alert when the wait passes the level you set, early enough to open another lane.
How accurate is it in a store?
Accuracy depends on the layout, sensor placement, and how the venue defines a count, whether that is entries only or zone by zone. Real-world deployments at airports and shopping centres consistently measure within 1 to 2 percent of ground truth.
Does this replace our existing systems?
Usually it feeds them. Ariadne has an open API and pre-built connectors, so the counts can drive the BI stack, the workforce system, and the marketing tools you already run. Bring the list of systems and we will tell you which ones we have already connected to.
We cannot get to Las Vegas. Can we still talk?
Yes. The same booking link works for a remote call, and the conversation is the same one: your store, one measurement you do not trust, and what our sensors would report there.
Book before the diary fills
Diaries at a show fill from the outside in. Booking now gets you a time that suits your agenda rather than whatever is left on the last day.