Problem:

Our team needed to create a data set listing retail stores belonging to different territories for performance tests that involved store selection.  The data set was to be used by virtual users signing-in as different territory owners.  The challenge was that the territory and store numbers in the data set should be as random as possible.  For example, if there are 20 territories and each territory has 10 stores, the data set should contain the 20 territories with their first stores, followed by the same 20 territories with their second stores and so on.  

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