Abstract: A method for managing a retail environment includes identifying a plurality of shopping carts traveling through an aisle of a retail environment; retrieving information of respective times of the plurality of shopping carts entering the aisle, and respective times of the plurality of shopping carts leaving the aisle; associating the plurality of shopping carts with respective transaction identifications; generating a database comprising the transaction identifications and respective items, the items of each transaction identification comprising at least a dwell time class, respective purchase states of one or more products deployed along the aisle, and respective query states of the one or more product; calculating a respective product conversion rate of each of the transaction identifications based on the database; and providing an aisle product conversion rate for managing product placements in the retail environment based on the respective product conversion rate of each of the transaction identifications.