This prevented them from stocking their shelves with new products at the peak of the introductory selling season. When managers investigated further, they discovered that the problem was not that the store managers were writing down the old products at the end of the cycle, but instead that they were postponing putting these products on sale in the hope that a sales surge would materialize. In order for your company to succeed in the post-pandemic era, you must do two things well: Select your strategy carefully to target a defensible market segment and tailor your business model to capture and dominate your target market.