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Judgment & ambiguity · Prioritizing without clear signal

You have one week of open-to-buy dollars left and four categories all under-inventoried heading into a peak: none is clearly the biggest opportunity, and the buyers each argue theirs is most urgent. How do you sequence the spend?

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You have one week of open-to-buy dollars left and four categories all under-inventoried heading into a peak: none is clearly the biggest opportunity, and the buyers each argue theirs is most urgent. How do you sequence the spend?

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