The present invention belongs to the technical field of visual identification, and discloses an analysis method and system for items on the supermarket shelf. The method comprises acquiring one shelf image, which contains the items on the supermarket shelf and price tags corresponding to the items, and one shelf image corresponds to one shooting angle; acquiring a primary item classification result corresponding to the items on the supermarket shelf and a primary price identification result corresponding to the price tag according to the shelf image, a pre-trained primary item classification model and price tag text identification model; displaying the primary item classification result and the primary price identification result on the shelf image. The system comprises an image acquisition device, a primary classification device and a display device. According to the above technical solutions, the present invention prevents the managers of the shopping place from consulting the item packaging one by one in front of the shelf when managing the item information on the shelf, and then recording the item information, thus improving the management efficiency and facilitating the managers to know all the item information on the supermarket shelf at a glance.