Priya's Thursday, two ways

Priya is a category manager for home storage at a mid-sized retailer.

It is Thursday morning. Priya has a category review at 2 p.m. and a supplier call after lunch. Her inbox holds trend notes from a trade site, a competitor price sheet, a stock report, and a half-written list of questions for the supplier. Before the course, she would spend the morning copying pieces into slides and hoping nothing important was missing.

Now she opens ChatGPT and uses the Market Trend Briefs prompt. She pastes her notes about stackable bins, under-bed bags, and a rise in small-apartment searches. The prompt returns a one-page brief with three opportunities and two risks. She edits the brief, then opens Claude for the Competitor Monitoring prompt. She gives it three competitor prices and two promotion offers from last week. Claude points out a gap in bundle deals and a price move she had not noticed.

After lunch, Priya uses Gemini for the Inventory Health Checks prompt. She shares a small table of stock on hand, weekly sales, and lead times for six storage items. Gemini flags two items at risk of overstock and one that may run out before the next delivery. She also uses the Supplier Negotiation Prep prompt in ChatGPT. She enters the supplier's current terms, her target margin, and two fallback options. The prompt gives her talking points and a question about payment timing.

By 1:30 p.m., Priya has a clear brief, a competitor note, an inventory action list, and a supplier plan. She walks into her review calm and ready. The time she wins back goes to a walk-through of the store with the visual merchandising team, where she spots a display idea for the bundle deals. She leaves at a normal hour and picks up her daughter from dance class.