Kalyanam, Kirthi; Borle, Sharad; Boatwright, Peter - In: Marketing Science 26 (2007) 3, pp. 327-341
Retailers and manufacturers believe that the mere presence of certain items in a retail assortment increases the sales … results show that many items affect category sales over and above their own sales volume. After deconstructing the role of a … stockout of individual items into three effects—lost own sales, substitution to other items, and the category sales impact …