Director of Asset Protection & Workplace Safety
Lowes Foods
Matt Bunker is a retail operations and asset protection leader at Lowe’s Foods, a regional grocery chain serving communities across the Carolinas and Georgia. He focuses on protecting food safety and quality, improving asset health, and reducing operational friction through practical technology. Matt is passionate about creating safer stores, empowering frontline teams, and ensuring guests can shop with confidence while enjoying an engaging in-store experience.
Monday Jan 12
11:45am - 12:15pm
Exhibitor Big Ideas Stage 1
Retail’s strongest margin protector is often invisible: IoT systems that quietly prevent store failure before it disrupts operations. This session reveals how modern platforms move beyond basic sensing to orchestrate prescriptive actions, generate adaptive SOPs, automate workflows, and deliver real-time training to frontline teams. Full end-to-end supply chain sensing and prescription capabilities reduce shrink, prevent theft, improve equipment uptime, strengthen compliance, and create more resilient stores by ensuring you have the right inventory when you need it. Discover why the quiet backbone of retail is becoming a strategic operational powerhouse.
