Grocers are scrambling to face another pandemic panic

Written By Rudolf Leuschner

NPR Marketplace

Not so predictive. Because a data model is only as good as its data, and computers don’t know how to factor in people’s unusual buying patterns during the pandemic. Rudi Leuschner, a professor of supply chain management at Rutgers, said retailers are going old-school.

“We use the supercomputer that everybody has built in right as they’re born, which is human intuition,” Leuschner said.

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