Assortment Optimization with Replacement Options for Retail Platforms with Stockout Risk

The authors thank several colleagues at Instacart for their valuable discussions and support throughout this project. In particular, the authors are grateful to Benjamin Knight, Staff Data Scientist at Instacart, for his help with data preprocessing and for sharing important practical insights. The authors also thank the department editor, the associate editor, and the anonymous referees for their thoughtful and hands-on suggestions, which substantially improved both the paper and its exposition. The authors are especially grateful to the anonymous referee who suggested the MIP formulations.