Written By: Gargi Sarma Walk into any retail pricing or category team on a Monday morning, and you'll see the same thing: spreadsheets open, dashboards loading, analysts burning the first two hours of the week pulling numbers from three different systems — before a single decision has been made. McKinsey estimates that retail analysts spend up to 80% of their time gathering and cleaning data, and only 20% actually analyzing it. That ratio is backwards. And it's costing retai