Pricing Intelligence for a Major Food Brand
Leading French food manufacturer
We built a weekly pricing intelligence system that monitors hundreds of grocery drives across France, giving the client’s pricing team actionable shelf-price data without lifting a finger. Annual cost: under € 2,500.
The Challenge
The client had no reliable way to track how retailers priced their products. Manual checks were slow and incomplete, and a previous scraping provider had failed against anti-bot protections. For over a year, the pricing team operated with blind spots across their entire distribution network.
The client’s products are sold through dozens of French retail chains, but they had no reliable system for tracking shelf prices across drives and delivery platforms. A previous scraping provider couldn’t keep up with anti-bot protections and stopped delivering. For over a year, the pricing team made decisions on partial data.
Our Approach
We deployed resilient scraping agents across the client’s full EAN catalogue on every selected retailer drive. Data is collected weekly, normalized, and delivered in a format the pricing team can act on immediately. When retail sites change their defenses, our engineers update the agents fast enough that no delivery is missed.
What We Built
Full-catalogue coverage
Scraping agents track every EAN in the client’s portfolio across all selected retailer drives, every week.
Anti-bot resilience
Our agents are built to handle grocery delivery sites’ aggressive bot detection, and our engineers react fast when sites change their protections.
Clean, exploitable output
Data arrives in a format the pricing team can work with directly. No manual cleanup, no consolidation step.
Ongoing maintenance
Retail sites evolve constantly. We monitor agent health and push updates before gaps appear in the data.
Results
The pricing team reclaimed a full workday each week previously spent on manual spot checks. Price recommendations now arrive ready to act on, replacing the slow manual consolidations the team relied on before. A year-long blind spot across the distribution network was closed within weeks of deployment.
Before & After
| Metric | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Price monitoring method | Manual spot checks | Automated weekly collection |
| Drives monitored | A handful | Hundreds |
| Time spent by pricing team | 8+ hours/week | Zero |
| Annual cost | --- | Under € 2,500 |
| Data freshness | Sporadic, days-old | Weekly, delivered on schedule |
Client Feedback
"Stratalis is a reliable, responsive provider at a competitive price point. They deliver high-quality web scraping data that's easy to work with and adapts to our evolving needs."