Two emerging retail issues attributable to the increased online ordering are O a. Reverse logistics and product losses (yield) O b. Globalization and localization O c. Inflation and theft O d. Omni channel growth and supply disruptions. When the alpha selected for a simple exponential smoothing model is close to zero, the forecast O a. will vary around zero O b. will be accurate Oc will heavily weight the prior forecast period O d. will heavily wieght the most recent demand Slow moving, not readily available specialty items would have demand data characteristics of O a. Intermittent O b. Seasonal Oc. Bias O d. Outlier