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Documenting Discretion

What Reductions Officers Call the Stock They Won't Mark Down Yet

A qualitative study interviews 38 reductions officers across fourteen stores of one supermarket chain about the vocabulary they use for stock they hold back from markdown, and traces what happened to that vocabulary once head office required every discretionary hold to be filed on a numbered override form.

AuthorsSolveig Adeyemi, Dagny Okafor
SchoolSchool of Continuous Improvement
Output typeResearch poster
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.fgok4d
Pages1
Cited by1 output
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_fgok4d,
  author       = {Solveig Adeyemi and Dagny Okafor},
  title        = {Documenting Discretion: What Reductions Officers Call the Stock They Won't Mark Down Yet},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.fgok4d},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-interviewing-supermarket-fgok4d/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}