After finding an underperforming category, she may check how different groups or districts of stores performed for that category. Knowing how each store performed, she might explode down, looking at individual items, and compare their performance to that of a prior week or year. This process is like taking the Rubic’s cube and continually rotating the levels, looking at each of the cube’s faces. Each face of each small cube represents data for a piece of merchandise for a store for a period of time. That is why this process is referred to as “slice and dice.” You can.
