In article <13sqkqqqv4a19b3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
HeyBub <heybub@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>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.
Ummmmm... you *did* notice that the article was giving an example of the
system actually doing something productive in 2004, didn't you?
DD
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