Beyond Retro, a vintage clothing retailer in Europe, was struggling with their e-commerce website's performance due to the unique nature of their products, which are all one-of-a-kind vintage items. They were experiencing difficulties with search functionality and catalog management, which caused headaches in balancing website performance and maintaining an up-to-date catalogue. The company decided to replace their built-in Magento tools with Algolia, a third-party search solution that offered better speed and performance at a lower cost. After implementing Algolia, they saw significant improvements in customer experience, server performance, and infrastructure costs, including a 30% reduction in costs. Additionally, the implementation allowed them to turn off Magento's Full Page Cache invalidation for category pages, resulting in improved site performance. The process of rolling out the full Algolia catalog replacement took about a month, with minimal technical glitches and support from the Algolia community.