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Inventory & Availability Guardian · Wisdom notebook

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Which of our stockouts are hitting loyalty members hardest — not just the ones losing the most sales?

RK

Joined each store's stockout lost-sales with the share of that lost demand coming from high-value loyalty members, and ranked the relationship exposure — not the dollar loss.

The stores that hurt most aren't the biggest-loss ones. Two Northeast metro stores lose less in raw sales but far more in loyal-customer demand — that's the real risk:

Stockout exposure · sales loss vs loyalty loss

002004040080loyalty-exposure lineStore 214Store 118Store 402Store 305Store 501Weekly lost sales ($K)% of lost demand from loyalty members

Above the line is the danger — Store 214 and 118 lose the most loyal-customer demand even though their raw sales loss isn't the biggest; Store 402 loses more dollars but mostly one-off traffic.

Take Store 214 — is it losing one-time shoppers or the repeat buyers, and on what?

RK

Broke Store 214's lost demand down by customer type, over the stocked-out staples.

Almost two-thirds is repeat loyalty members — the shoppers who come back weekly for staples like milk and eggs. That's a relationship at risk, not a one-off sale:

Store 214 · lost demand by customer type

62%repeat loyalty members
Loyalty / repeat members62%
Occasional shoppers26%
New / one-off12%

When a loyal member hits an empty shelf on a weekly staple, the risk isn't this basket — it's the next 50.

So is protecting Store 214 worth an expedite — what's actually at stake versus the cost?

RK

Weighed the one-off expedite cost against this week's lost sales and the at-risk loyalty lifetime value — not just the week's milk.

Yes — the expedite cost is small against the loyal-customer value on the line. This is a repeat-visit decision, not a stock decision:

Expedite cost · one-off~$12K
Lost sales · this week~$0.2M
Loyal-member lifetime value at risk~$1.9M
Move nowexpedite Store 214 staples — protect the relationship, not the basket