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Field Tools.
The Retail Toolbox.

Practical tools that help retail teams recommend products, find what they need and coordinate the day. Simple to use, right where the work happens.

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THE VISION

Three everyday questions.

Field Tools is growing around practical shop-floor moments rather than around technology for its own sake.

SELL“What should I recommend?”

Help identify the right product while building useful product knowledge through the process.

COORDINATE“What's happening, and who's doing what?”

Give the team a lightweight shared picture of the day without replacing official systems.

FIND“Where do I find it?”

Identify products and share practical store locations, notes and supporting photos.

WHY FIELD TOOLS EXISTS

Support the moments between the systems.

Large retail systems are necessarily built to standardise a lot of different business needs. On the shop floor, there are still small moments where somebody needs information, judgement or coordination immediately.

Field Tools brings those everyday moments together in a practical retail toolbox: helping a team member answer a customer, understand a product, coordinate with colleagues or locate something quickly. The current configuration uses Anaconda product information and store context.

THE STORY BEHIND FIELD TOOLS

Built from the shop floor.

Dave's Field Tools began with the everyday questions I encountered as an Anaconda team member. I'm David Ramsey, with a background across operations, IT, business analysis, development, training and change.

I enjoy finding practical ways to make information easier to use, especially when the best solution is smaller and simpler than another formal system.

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A SIMPLE PRINCIPLE

Useful first. Friction second.

Everyday users should see trusted outcomes and practical actions. Complexity, diagnostics and uncertainty belong behind Manager or Admin controls when they genuinely need to be managed.

INDEPENDENT PROJECT

Field Tools is independently developed by David Ramsey and has not been commissioned, approved or endorsed by Anaconda or Spotlight Retail Group. It is intended to complement existing systems, training and procedures rather than replace them. Official policies, procedures, pricing, product information and company systems remain authoritative. Verify current information, use your own judgement and discretion, and do not enter sensitive customer or confidential business information.