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Most retailers have adopted the vocabulary of experimentation without adopting its operating model. The dashboards exist; the A/B testing tools are licensed; the squads have agile coaches. And yet, the average retailer ships fewer meaningful changes in a quarter than a digital-native challenger does in a fortnight.

The gap is not one of data, talent, or tooling. It is a gap in governance, how decisions are allocated, escalated, and ultimately made, and in software delivery velocity, the unglamorous but binding constraint on how quickly any decision can reach a customer.

This paper argues that experimentation is not a capability that can be bought and magically solve all problems. It is a set of choices about who can decide what, inside which limits, and how fast those decisions can be turned into code, products, and shelf-edge changes. We propose a framework, The Five Locks on Retail Experimentation, and identify the three mistakes most leaders are making right now: confusing dashboards with decisions, granting fake autonomy, and treating release velocity as an engineering concern rather than a strategic one.

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