ASP Category Intelligence is built section by section into the definitive knowledge base for category management, merchandising, buying and commercial retail strategy. Start here.
Original, data-backed material.
Original, data-backed research on pricing, category economics and retail market structure. Read directly in the browser, never a forced download.
Browse Research Reports →Commercial situations worth studying. The challenge, what was done, and the learning that generalises.
Browse Case Studies →Category benchmarks. GMROI, sell-through, stock cover and more, with good/better/best ranges.
Browse Benchmark Library →Articles, frameworks and structured thinking.
Category management, buying, vendor negotiation, pricing, promotion and inventory productivity.
Browse Articles →Structured, reusable frameworks for commercial decision-making.
Browse Frameworks →Quick, practical reads. Small commercial moves that compound. Searchable by category.
Browse Retail Hacks →Real commercial decisions, broken down: the context, the options considered, the trade-offs, and what was actually learned.
Browse Decision Library →Long-form writing on category management and commercial retail strategy.
Browse Books →Every published issue, in one place. Opens the original issue in a new tab.
Browse Newsletter Archive →Calculators, prompts and working aids.
Business context, inputs, outputs and interpretation guidance for every calculator on the ASP toolkit.
Browse Calculators →Ready-to-use AI prompts for category management, buying, pricing and vendor negotiation work. Copy and adapt.
Browse AI Prompt Library →Files and working templates.
Working templates for category and inventory management. Previews are open now; downloads are coming.
Browse Templates →Templates and tools available to download directly.
Browse Downloads →Search everything at once.
Search across every collection at once, with filters by collection, category, tag and date.