1 CASE STUDY | Harris Farm Markets Harris Farm Markets Taps DataRobot for Demand Forecasting In the retail grocery business, it isn’t easy to manage produce items on the shelves – keeping apples at their peak freshness, or the right assortment of cucumbers. Grocery chains everywhere struggle to predict their perishable needs, but Harris Farm Markets, a grocery retailer in New South Wales, Australia, has faced especially challenging circumstances. First, wildfires made obtaining supplies unpredictable, and then COVID drove sudden spikes in demand. All this made the difficult task of demand forecasting that much harder. With over two dozen stores and an expanding geographic footprint, the chain needed a way to consistently meet consumers’ demand for variety and freshness. Ha

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