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With the availability of different data sources, various techniques and models have been proposed for aggregated sales forecasting. However, existing methods often overlook the spatial correlation in sales between neighboring retailers. In this paper, we propose a new framework for aggregated sales forecasting based on the deep learning technique ConvLSTM with an attention mechanism to solve this challenge. In the new framework, ConvLSTM is utilized to fully leverage spatially relevant information from adjacent retailers, while the attention mechanism is employed to capture spatial dependencies and select the most pertinent data from spatial inputs. Furthermore, a spatial sliding window technique is designed to augment the sample size. To validate the efficacy of our proposed framework, we conducted experiments using real-world retail sales data and compared our model with established benchmarks. Additionally, we conducted an ablation study to assess the contributions of key components, including the attention mechanism and spatial data augmentation. The experimental results demonstrate that our proposed model effectively improves the prediction performance, offering a novel approach to aggregate sales forecasting for both industry and academia.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jtaer20040334","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,2]],"date-time":"2025-12-02T15:31:46Z","timestamp":1764689506000},"page":"334","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Aggregate Sales Forecasting Based on Spatial Correlation in Retail"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0610-9317","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bing","family":"Zhu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China"},{"name":"Management Science and Operations Research Institute, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-9586-092X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhengqian","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8781-3906","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Seppe","family":"vanden Broucke","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Business Informatics and Operations Management, UGent, Tweekerkenstraat 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium"}]},{"given":"Keyi","family":"Lan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China"}]},{"given":"Duoxi","family":"Xiao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1283","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ijforecast.2019.06.004","article-title":"Retail forecasting: Research and practice","volume":"38","author":"Fildes","year":"2019","journal-title":"Int. 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