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Originally Posted by Undertoad
And like Mr Dent finding that the Nutrimatic machine has produced a fluid exactly unlike tea, the entire system has produced a supermarket where I am routinely offended by 98% of the shelf contents.
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I'm convinced there's some perverse behaviors in the system that no one involved notices.
For instance, suppose an item appears on the shelf and sells out the first week. Then it isn't restocked for the rest of the month. Perhaps this pattern continues for a while. Then some analyst (or analysis program, more likely) will (on the last week of the month) take an exponentially decaying average of the sales of the product, determine that (because it had zero sales in the last three weeks) it just doesn't sell and shouldn't be restocked.