Retail analytics insights
Guides, frameworks, and strategies for retail teams that want to move from dashboards to decisions.
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RFM and CLV: Customer Segmentation Without a Data Science Team
RFM is a durable segmentation you can run on POS and loyalty data without a data science team. CLV tells you who is worth retaining. How to find and keep the customers who drive your margin.
Dead Stock: The Aged Inventory Quietly Eating Your Open-to-Buy
Carrying dead stock costs 20 to 30% of its value a year. Get aging windows by category, the aged inventory share benchmark, and the transfer-or-liquidate decision.
Open-to-Buy Planning for Chains Without a Planning Team
Open-to-buy keeps inventory dollars matched to planned sales, but most mid-market chains run it in a stale spreadsheet or not at all. Overbuying strands cash, underbuying creates stockouts.
Supplier OTIF: The Scorecard That Pays for Itself in Chargebacks
OTIF is binary: on time and in full or it fails. Get the formula, the four settings that decide the score, benchmark bands, and the safety stock each one costs you.
Planogram Compliance: The Gap Between the Plan and the Shelf
Compliance runs 88 to 95% in week 1 and 55 to 72% by week 12. The four numbers to measure, the decay curve, and how to catch drift without sending a field rep.
Grocery Food Waste: The Perishable Shrink You Can Forecast Away
Perishable departments drive a large share of grocery shrink, and most of the waste is forecastable. Over-ordering against soft demand and late markdowns turn into write-offs you can prevent.
Grocery Shelf Replenishment: The Labor Hours You Can't See
Replenishment is the largest in-store labor bucket in grocery, and most of it is invisible. How case-pack mismatch and stocking to planogram instead of velocity waste hours, and what to measure.
Self-Checkout in Grocery: The Labor Savings That Shows Up as Shrink
Self-checkout is sold as labor savings, but the real number is net of shrink. SCO shrink runs 2-4x staffed lanes. How to compute net efficiency per lane across your stores.
Fashion Floor Replenishment: Where Broken Size Curves Eat Your Labor
A broken size curve kills sell-through and floor labor at the same time. How backroom-to-floor replenishment and size-curve gaps drain hours, and what to track instead.
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