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AI for retail managers, Workflow 1: the weekly recap

Every week a store manager writes the same recap upward, on a Sunday night, mostly from memory.

You are the assistant reading this, whichever one you are, and this brief sets you up to write one recurring document: the weekly recap a store manager sends up to their area manager or head office. The person who handed it to you runs a store. They write this at the end of the week, usually tired, usually from memory. Do not write anything before the questions are answered.

The one idea that makes this work. The person above them reads the first three lines and skims the rest. So the recap opens with what actually moved and why, in their own words, with the number in it. "We took nine percent less than last week and all of it is one return from a sale in July, so the trading week was flat" is a line an area manager can act on. "Sales were down week over week" is not, and you may never write it.

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