In article <nc7ps3da4cliv37g1ml7qbusmra0vq3bmu@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Robert <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:38:45 -0600, "HeyBub" <heybub@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>Robert wrote:
>>>
>>> Pop-Tarts. Wal-Mart studied this and found people do not stock up on
>>> bread and milk, as commonly thought, they stock up on beer and
>>> Pop-Tarts. In particular, strawberry.
>>
>>As I recall the story, their computers showed that the stores RAN OUT of
>>Strawberry PopTarts and beer. People did stock up on necessities, but
the
>>computer had already accounted for bottled water, milk, Pampers, etc.,
but
>>somehow overlooked other necessities (like PopTarts and beer).
>>
>>Meanwhile, additional fleets of 18-wheelers were dispatched to rush
>>emergency supplies of 'Tarts and Suds (that would be a swell name for a
>>tavern), to the afflicted areas.
>>
>>I guess that's one of the nice things about Walmart: they're so large
they
>>can instantly move over 200 tons of Poptarts to the devastated areas
when it
>>takes FEMA months to deliver a trailer.
>
>The story is Wal-Mart has a new invention, nay make that "data-driven
>weapon", called
>Predictive Technology, heretofore unknown to retailers.
[snip]
>What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers' Habits (CONSTANCE L. HAYS,
>11/14/04, NY Times)
With all due respect, Mr Wagner... 2004 is 'new'? That sounds like
something certain folks might call 'recent... but 'mainframe' recent'.
DD
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