Opaque selling, in which a seller offers a menu of opaque products from a collection of physical products, has been shown to be an effective strategy to segment a market and improve the seller's profit. We study opaque selling with stochastic demand and fixed initial inventory, where we consider...

​It is widely accepted that the retailer’s use of strategic inventory can mitigate double marginalization and improve supply chain coordination. However, the recent literature of channel coordination only considers the effects of the retailer’s strategic inventory, leaving the...