Hypermarkets · Supermarkets · Convenience stores
Cartons, pallet jacks, back-and-forth trips to the storage room: the store is dirtied before the first customer arrives. And cleaning remains just one more line on your list, between restocking and shelf-merchandising. The Korben robot washes the night, forward during the day, and you remove this task.
When all is said and done, the cleaning is still up to you.
Restocking, shelving, orders, scheduling, register, disputes. And cleaning. On paper, just one task among others. In reality, the one you put off — because it's the only one whose results no one asks you for until it's too late.
Your teams start at 5:00 AM. You open at 8:30 AM. In between, we had to stock the shelves: cardboard boxes, roll cages, pallet jacks, trips back and forth to the stockroom. The floor takes the brunt of all that. The store is dirtied even before it has opened.
So someone is running the scrubber-dryer. Three hours and forty-five days a day at a downtown Intermarché Express — every day, for a result that depends on who is there that morning.
It is not a problem with the cleaning quality. It is one task too many, on an already full list.
A normal day
From 5 AM to 9 PM, here is what really happens in a convenience store. You'll recognize every line.
What if all of this was already done
when do you arrive in the morning?
The moment of reckoning
You can't see that on a dashboard.
You can tell on a Tuesday at 4:20 PM.
A female customer stops in front of the chilled aisle. She looks at the floor. She says nothing, she takes her product and she leaves. You will never know if she came back the following week.
Or maybe it's the brand audit. The quality referent drops by at 8:00 AM: everything is perfect, he gives a good score. You know very well that at 6:00 PM it would be a different score — and that it's just a matter of luck.
No one will send you an invoice for that. That is the real issue: it is a cost you pay without ever seeing it go by.
What it really costs
He doesn't differentiate between the cleanliness of the aisle and that of the floor: he judges the whole thing. A cart mark, a wet spot, dull tiles — and the impression is made before he has even picked up a single product. You redid the aisles last year. He's looking at the floor.
Cleaning is not a separate service: it is just another line item alongside restocking, shelving, and scheduling. Every added cycle becomes a trade-off — and in a trade-off, cleaning is always what gets cut. You aren't asking your teams to do a bad job: you are asking them to do the impossible, and everyone knows it.
It depends on who is there, what time it is, and whether the replacement knows the store. The result is never the same twice—and that is exactly what a brand audit or mystery shopper uncovers on a day when things go badly wrong.
The solution
A complete cycle during closing so the store is clean before your teams arrive. Then a second run during the day, among customers, to maintain the standard until evening. You set the pace once; it maintains it every day, including Mondays when two people are missing.
The night shift is over when your teams arrive. They stock the shelves on a clean floor, and you open without having to choose between restocking and cleaning.
The second pass takes place in broad daylight, with customers present. The robot detects people, slows down, and bypasses shopping carts and roll containers, including narrow aisles and tight checkout lanes.
Task reports and precise tracking: you know what was cleaned, when, and in which area. No need to ask or find out the next morning.
How he works
A Korben technician takes a first tour of the store with the robot. It learns your aisles, your obstacles, your restricted areas.
During the closure, he cleans the entire store. The work is finished before the teams arrive at 5 AM.
At the time slot you chose, customers present. It detects, slows down, and bypasses — no marking, no aisles to close.
Treated areas, schedules, duration. You can check at a glance what has been done, without having to double-check behind them.
Arbitration
This is what the manual operation of the scrubber-dryer represented at Intermarché Express Villeurbanne. The question is not «can I afford it,» but rather «how much is it already costing me to do it by hand.».
Funding
No hidden formulas or lengthy quotes: there are only two setups, starting from €14 excluding VAT per day, and the right one mostly depends on how you prefer to incur the expense.
The robot is financed over 60 months. You pay nothing upfront at installation and the expense is recorded as an operating expense, spread over five years. This is the most common setup in stores.
Depending on the model chosen for your surface area. 60-month financing.
You buy the robot outright. Added to this is a monthly fee for using and accessing the Korben service — supervision, updates, support — with no fixed-term commitment.
Depending on the model chosen for your area, the details of the purchase price and the service monthly payment are given to you during the diagnosis.
The exact amount depends on your area.
It is given to you during the diagnosis.
The cleaning range
The choice is not based on the technical data sheet, but on your store layout: aisle width, floor type, storage areas, opening hours. That is the entire purpose of the assessment. Please note: the range is sized for surfaces of 100 m² minimum.
The hypermarket format: wide aisles, long opening hours.
The autonomous scrubber drier for very large areas and logistics.
The compact store format: narrow aisles, tight checkout lanes.
The agile format for hard-to-reach areas and warehouses.
In real-world conditions
Five in-store video sequences, unedited. Sound is muted by default.
Case study · Retail
First Intermarché Express in the Rhône-Alpes region. 45 employees, open from 8:30 AM to 9:00 PM and on Sunday mornings. A city-center store: narrow aisles, compact areas, tight checkout lanes, heavy traffic.
«I am very satisfied with having chosen this solution. The robot fits perfectly into our compact downtown store.»
First Intermarché Express in the Rhône-Alpes region. Urban environment: narrow aisles, compact areas, tight checkout lanes, heavy traffic. Teams start at 5 a.m. with shelving — and the store was often soiled even before opening.
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«We tested it for a month before committing. The robot lives up to its promises: the aisles are spotless even at the end of the day, and our teams have saved precious time.»
«Our customers notice it and talk to us about it. It has become a real brand image argument for the store, in addition to saving time for the teams.»
«The setup was quick, and customer service always responded fast when we had a question. As for cleanliness, there is no comparison with before.»
«"Consistent, spotless cleaning, even in hard-to-reach areas. We've reduced our cleaning costs by 50 %. A profitable investment in record time."»
Objections
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