Why Is It Disadvantageous to Forecast Sales at an Aggregate

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Essay

Why is it disadvantageous to forecast sales at an aggregate level for the chain rather than on a store-by-store basis?

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Definitions:

Kohler

Wolfgang Köhler, a psychologist and one of the founders of Gestalt psychology, known for his work on insight learning.

Titchener

Edward Titchener was a British psychologist known for developing structuralism, an early school of psychology focused on breaking down mental processes into the most basic components.

Behaviorism

An approach in psychology that emphasizes the importance of external behavior rather than internal processes and posits that behavior can be studied scientifically without recourse to inner mental states.

Psychodynamic Psychology

A branch of psychology that emphasizes the systemic study of the psychological forces that underlie human behaviour, feelings, and emotions and how they might relate to early experience.