The Special Issue on Retail Operations that has been edited by Alexander Hübner (TUM), Pedro Amorim (U Porto), Heinrich Kuhn (KU Ingolstadt), Stefan Minner (TUM) and Tom van Woensel (TU Eindhoven) has been published in OR Spectrum. The issue contains a selection of papers that have the potential to better manage and plan retail problems at hand. The full issue can be found here.