Show HN: 1M retail interior image dataset for computer vision (UK/US/EU)

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Over 1,000,000 (and counting) in-store photos from 2010 to present day.

Our image dataset has been captured across 15 years, across multiple countries, and in dozens of major retailers.

Our dataset is a fully rights managed dataset designed to support Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Computer Vision and retail strategy teams with real world visual data.

Our images are not scraped from the web, nothing is synthetic either, they’re all original images that we have captured.

All of our images are expert captured, store level imagery documenting a huge varied image dataset.

Whether it’s in terms of depth, quality or variation, there is nothing more comprehensive than our expert led image dataset.

Get access to 1,000,000+ images

Perfect for AI/ML training sets

Get in touch to get access to our bank of 1,000,000+ images, updated each week. 

Train your models on best in class retail imagery.

  • A unique dataset charting modern retail.
  • Hugely varied archive of in store images.
  • 280,000 structured seasonal event images.
  • Images captured for our consulting work.
  • No repeated images of the same thing.
  • Ideal for AI & Machine Learning purposes.

Digital Subscription. Priced per user. Call us to discuss your needs.

What's inside the dataset

What our dataset offers you:

A growing image bank

Over 1,000,000 images and growing, with new content added weekly.

Structured for Scale

Each image is stored in hierarchies by year, by retailer, or by event and sub category.

Tagged and Manifested

Our internal manifests include paths, timestamps, EXIF and duplicate deletion.

Seasons & Events

Over 280,000 of our images are structured by seasonal event. Including Christmas, Halloween, Back to School and more.

Wide Category Coverage

From Bakery to Produce, Ambient to Chill, we feature everything. Across food, drink, GM, Household, Health & Beauty and more.

Retailers Featured

All of the major retailers are featured across the UK, US, Ireland and Europe. Only areas that are publicly available are featured.

Our Dataset is perfect for AI training and Machine Learning

Built for Vision, Trusted by Strategy. 

Use our dataset to build and validate your models. 

Utilise object detection, image captioning, visual question answering, domain shift and perception robustness.

Work with the most varied and in depth dataset in the market,

See how in-store execution really happens, at scale. 

Perfect for category, commercial, marketing or customer teams looking to benchmark.

Useful for retailers and suppliers looking to review best practice from the market.

Already the topic of conversation with several leading institutions who want to use our archive to build research programmes.

Helping to serve Masters level projects in Computer Vision, dataset structuring and privacy tech.

Preview the dataset

Want to explore before you commit? We've handpicked over 100+ images from the years, the seasons and the store visits.

  • Includes a full manifest.
  • Retailers, locations, dates & EXIF.
  • Ready for Academic Review
  • Ready for Internal testing
  • Evaluation License included

Pricing

Single and multi market licenses available,

  • Custom subsets from £15,000 - specific time, retailer, categories.
  • Multi market licenses - contact to discuss. Full dataset across all categories.
  • Single market license (UK,US) also possible.
  • Academic research - contact for discounted licensing.

Unlock full access

Whether you're training AI models, building benchmarks, debiasing models or running research, this archive is your retail ground truth.

  • Manifest ready with EXIF sizing.
  • Duplicates flagged where correct.
  • Evaluation and commercial licenses available.
  • Academic access with supervision available.

Flexible licensing is available and we are committed to structuring a license that works for you.

Flexible Licensing arrangements

Non-exclusive licensing for commercial teams.

Academic access available (non-commercial use only)

Annual exclusivity available at premium pricing.

Further curation is available, alongside retail and operational consultancy.

No resale, or distribution is permitted.

Includes licensing agreement, manifest and onboarding guidance.

If you’re building perception models, validating computer vision systems, or trying to understand how retail execution has changed in 15 years, this dataset is for you.

Frequently Asked Questions

Our dataset is an ever-growing bank of retail 1,000,000+ images that we gather from stores all across the globe each week. We make in-person visits to stores every week, taking high quality photographs of seasonal events, store layouts, offers, innovations, best in practice and more. 

Multi-market coverage (not just single geography) with temporal coverage showing seasonal variations.

Organized hierarchy vs. flat structure

We have real-world lighting, occlusions, and angles in our iamgery.

These are actual retail environments and store formats, with Geographic variation in merchandising approaches

There are so many ways we believe the image dataset can be used.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, training models on the imperfections of retail alongside what good looks like is an emerging use case.

The possibilities are endless.

As with all good retailers, we offer you the chance to try before you buy. Explore a selection of our retail images to see the quality and features for yourself.

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