“…To achieve this, enabler, criteria, and attributes related to retail operations are identified from literature review and evaluated by collecting importance weight and performance rating to assess the current level of retail operation.In second phase, graph‐theoretic approach classifies the factors as very weak, weaker, and stronger factors to develop an exit strategy for BS events. Moreover, GT will be helpful for analyzing interrelationship between these factors and select the appropriate factors to improve the performance of retail operations (Calafut et al, 2021 ; Duman et al, 2020 ; Manimuthu et al, 2019 ). Further, GT groups the factors that can be used as triggering variables in exit strategy.The third phase, machine learning (ML)‐based prediction, is used to predict customer retention for retail shopping.…”