We study an increasingly popular retail practice called pickup partnership that allows online retailers to offer an in-store pickup service by partnering with a physical store. In practice, online retailers use two policies for such partnerships: (i) paying a fixed fee for each pickup order to...

This chapter presents some recent developments in retail promotions. We first discuss the different types of promotion used in retail, and then survey the related literature. We next formulate the promotion optimization problem for multiple items. This formulation is directly motivated from...

1. Introduction -- 2. Data Pre-Processing and Modeling Factors -- 3. Common Demand Prediction Methods -- 4. Tree-Based Methods -- 5. Clustering Techniques -- 6. Evaluation and Visualization -- 7. More Advanced Methods -- 8. Conclusion and Advanced Topics.