Category teams find out last.
Competitor prices move midweek. A promotion lands in a catalogue nobody read closely. A line quietly leaves the range. The information exists — it is simply scattered across two retailers, hundreds of products and every day of the week, and no one has the hours to collect it by hand.
METHOD 01Monthly data subscriptionsweeks late
METHOD 02Skimming weekly cataloguesa fraction of the moves
METHOD 03Store visitsone shelf, one day
By the time it's in a deck, it isn't intelligence. It's history.
The case for a daily read