Allocations – black art or science?

We’ve all read it a million times: right product, right price, right place and right time. These are the four critical things retailers must turn their minds to with every decision, yet strangely most retailers pay lip-service to the ‘right place’ factor when it comes time to allocating stock. Even in this era of fairly sophisticated allocation algorithms, I suspect that a lot of black art is going on as the allocators try to manipulate the computer-driven result to impart th

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