Step 1, clustering, is the segmentation of products based on their roles in the shopping cart. Among other things, the AI algorithms sort Soft KVIs by the degree of their demand dependence on price. That is, they determine what position the SKU's price should take among competitors' offers.
Clustering is the result of analyzing sales data, pricing history, and the cash receipts' structure. However, algorithms usually have to deal with insufficient/poor price change history (i.e., the store changed prices rarely and within a limited range). If the store has never set a price close to the optimal one,
part of the potential of its
KVIs can only be revealed with the
additional pricing experiments.