Technical Methods/2026.06.08
What Stores Tell You That POS Cannot
Zero sales is a fact, not an explanation. How merchandising conversations, treated as Bayesian evidence alongside POS and orders, reveal the true state of a store-product pair.
Technical methods and market analysis from the team building Treater.
The √n pooling law assumes stores move independently. Promotions and demand shocks break it, and the failure cascades through the supply chain.
Why modern replenishment systems miss breakout CPG demand, how left-censored sales data deepens the problem, and what brands need to do to close the detection lag.
Why retail demand swings, how DCs absorb it with safety stock, and the √n pooling law that explains why one DC needs ~10× less buffer than the stores it serves.
A technical research note on building evaluation systems for LLM-powered workflows in production environments.
A historical analysis of retail execution, from ancient marketplaces to today's tech-enabled field operations.
