diff --git a/docs/SCAN_TO_ORDER.md b/docs/SCAN_TO_ORDER.md
index ba74af6..452a0d2 100644
--- a/docs/SCAN_TO_ORDER.md
+++ b/docs/SCAN_TO_ORDER.md
@@ -100,6 +100,10 @@ How to read it:
   cart/order calls exactly as you would from the catalogue screen.
 - `distance_km: -1` means the distance is unknown (no fix from the phone and
   no saved address, or the store has no coordinates). Do not render it as 0.
+  Send `latitude`/`longitude` on `/confirm` too if you display distance from
+  its reply: the saved address is only consulted there when the shelf is
+  empty and alternatives have to be ranked, so without a fix the store you
+  tapped comes back `-1`.
 
 ## `POST /confirm`
 
@@ -115,7 +119,7 @@ nothing is cached on this path.
 {
   "ok": false,
   "reason": "out_of_stock",           // in_stock | insufficient_stock | out_of_stock | not_sold_here | store_not_registered
-  "store":  { "…the store they tapped…" },
+  "store":  { "…the store they tapped…" },   // distance_km filled from the fix you send
   "option": { "productid": 100, "stock": 0, "…": "…" },
   "requested": 2,
   "alternative": {                     // absent when nobody has enough
@@ -167,10 +171,12 @@ Same `ScanStore` shape as inside `stores[]` above, without options.
   EMBEDDING_DIMENSIONS=384
   ```
   A bare label ("Milk Bikis") scores ~0.92 against its product's stored
-  vector and ~0.23 against an unrelated one, which is what the 0.30 floor in
-  `scanService.go` is set against. If the catalogue team ever re-embeds
-  with another model, change `EMBEDDING_MODEL`/`DIMENSIONS` here and
-  nothing else.
+  vector and ~0.23 against an unrelated one, which is what the 0.50 floor in
+  `scanService.go` is set against — the middle of that split, not the edge of
+  the noise. It was 0.30 until a near-miss got through in production
+  ("Paracetamol" → "Paneer Makhni 500ml", 0.304). If the catalogue team ever
+  re-embeds with another model, change `EMBEDDING_MODEL`/`DIMENSIONS` here
+  and nothing else.
 - **Speed**: the label's vector (7 days) and the ranked catalogue hits
   (30 min) are cached in Redis and in-process, so a popular product costs
   one model call platform-wide. Customer, stores and catalogue are read
@@ -232,7 +238,7 @@ you change ranking — it is the spec.
 |---|---|---|
 | `scanLookupTimeout` | 5 s | whole lookup, including the model call |
 | `scanCatalogueTopK` | 15 | rows taken from each brand table and from the merge |
-| `scanMinScore` | 0.30 | below this the best hit is not shown as a match |
+| `scanMinScore` | 0.50 | below this the best hit is not shown as a match |
 | `embedTimeout` (`utils/embedding.go`) | 4 s | one model call |
 | `scanVectorTTL` / `scanHitsTTL` (`scanRepository.go`) | 7 d / 30 min | cache lifetimes |
 
diff --git a/services/scanService.go b/services/scanService.go
index 4695212..da3b837 100644
--- a/services/scanService.go
+++ b/services/scanService.go
@@ -47,8 +47,13 @@ const (
 	scanLookupTimeout = 5 * time.Second
 	scanMaxLabelLen   = 200
 	scanCatalogueTopK = 15
-	// Below this the best hit is not shown as a match at all.
-	scanMinScore = 0.30
+	// Below this the best hit is not shown as a match at all. A correct label
+	// scores ~0.92 against its own product's vector and ~0.23 against an
+	// unrelated one, so the floor sits in the empty middle of that split
+	// rather than just above the unrelated band: at 0.30, "Paracetamol"
+	// came back as "Paneer Makhni 500ml" (0.304) — a near-miss on an
+	// unrelated row clears a floor set that close to the noise.
+	scanMinScore = 0.50
 )
 
 // ScanErrors the controller maps to statuses. Everything else is a 500.
@@ -241,6 +246,14 @@ func (s *scanService) Confirm(ctx context.Context, req models.ScanConfirmRequest
 	}
 	resp.Store = chosen
 
+	// Distance on the store they tapped, for every outcome and not just the
+	// out-of-stock one below: the app renders this store from the reply it
+	// gets. The phone's fix is free to parse; the saved address costs a
+	// query, so it is only reached for on the path that also ranks other
+	// outlets. Without either, distanceKm leaves the -1 the repository set.
+	lat, lng, hasPos := utils.ParseLatLng(string(req.Latitude), string(req.Longitude))
+	chosen.DistanceKm = distanceKm(*chosen, lat, lng, hasPos)
+
 	row, err := s.repo.ProductAt(ctx, req.Tenantid, req.Locationid, req.Productid)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
@@ -268,10 +281,10 @@ func (s *scanService) Confirm(ctx context.Context, req models.ScanConfirmRequest
 	}
 
 	// The same product elsewhere, nearest first, with enough of it.
-	lat, lng, hasPos := utils.ParseLatLng(string(req.Latitude), string(req.Longitude))
 	if !hasPos {
 		if hl, hg, ok, err := s.repo.CustomerHome(ctx, req.Customerid); err == nil && ok {
 			lat, lng, hasPos = hl, hg, true
+			chosen.DistanceKm = distanceKm(*chosen, lat, lng, hasPos)
 		}
 	}
 	others := make([]models.ScanStore, 0, len(stores))
diff --git a/services/scan_test.go b/services/scan_test.go
index 6c5fe98..7df6144 100644
--- a/services/scan_test.go
+++ b/services/scan_test.go
@@ -436,3 +436,68 @@ func TestCatalogueFamilyGroupsByVariantKeyThenName(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("name match should join 1 and 2 only, got %+v", family)
 	}
 }
+
+// A vector neighbour that is merely not-quite-unrelated used to clear the old
+// 0.30 floor: in production "Paracetamol" came back as "Paneer Makhni 500ml"
+// on a 0.304 similarity. Correct labels land near 0.92, so nothing this weak
+// is a match.
+func TestLookupRefusesANearMissAboveTheOldFloor(t *testing.T) {
+	repo := newLookupFixture()
+	repo.vector = []repositories.CatalogueHit{{Brand: "amul", ID: 4, ProductName: "Paneer Makhni 500ml", Distance: 0.696}} // score 0.304
+	repo.text = nil
+	svc := NewScanService(repo, fakeEmbedder{vec: []float32{0.1}})
+
+	resp, err := svc.Lookup(context.Background(), models.ScanLookupRequest{Customerid: 5, Label: "Paracetamol"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if resp.Match != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("0.304 is a near-miss, not a match; got %+v", resp.Match)
+	}
+	if resp.Available || len(resp.Stores) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("nothing should be offered without a match; got %+v", resp)
+	}
+}
+
+// Confirm answers about the store the customer tapped, so that store carries a
+// distance on every outcome — not only on the out-of-stock path that ranks
+// alternatives. Absent any position it stays -1, the documented "unknown".
+func TestConfirmReportsDistanceToTheChosenStore(t *testing.T) {
+	repo := newLookupFixture()
+	repo.at = map[int]*repositories.StoreOptionRow{200: &repo.options[1]}
+	svc := NewScanService(repo, nil)
+	req := models.ScanConfirmRequest{Customerid: 5, Tenantid: 2, Locationid: 20, Productid: 200, Quantity: 4}
+
+	withPos := req
+	withPos.Latitude, withPos.Longitude = "11.035", "77.035"
+	resp, err := svc.Confirm(context.Background(), withPos)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if !resp.Ok || resp.Store == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("expected the in-stock answer, got %+v", resp)
+	}
+	if resp.Store.DistanceKm <= 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("the phone sent a fix, so the tapped store has a distance; got %v", resp.Store.DistanceKm)
+	}
+
+	// No fix from the phone, but a saved address on file.
+	repo.homeLat, repo.homeLng, repo.homeOK = 11.035, 77.035, true
+	resp, err = svc.Confirm(context.Background(), req)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if resp.Store == nil || resp.Store.DistanceKm != -1 {
+		t.Fatalf("in stock is answered without reaching for the saved address; got %v", resp.Store)
+	}
+
+	// Neither: unknown, and the app sorts it last.
+	repo.homeOK = false
+	resp, err = svc.Confirm(context.Background(), req)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if resp.Store == nil || resp.Store.DistanceKm != -1 {
+		t.Fatalf("no position at all is -1; got %v", resp.Store)
+	}
+}