Year-end counts get all the attention, but the stores that actually stay in stock through the messy middle months — back-to-school, holiday setup, post-holiday returns, spring reset — are the ones that count more often than they have to. Here's what I've seen work. Not theory. Just the stuff that separates a store that's constantly chasing ghosts on the shelf from one that actually knows what it has. Before any seasonal shift, pull your top 50 movers by category and count the