docdwarf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> 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'.
>
One week to conceive, three years for all interested stackholders to
review
and comment, three weeks to code and debug.
Works out about right.
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