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...idea that what goes into them won't be. Wal-Mart's next competitive weapon is advanced data mining, which it will use to forecast, replenish and merchandise on a micro scale. By analyzing years' worth of sales data--and then cranking in variables such as the weather and school schedules--the system could predict the optimal number of cases of Gatorade, in what flavors and sizes, a store in Laredo, Texas, should have on hand the Friday before Labor Day. Then, if the weather forecast suddenly called for temperatures 5 hotter than last year, the delivery truck would automatically...
...that some of the deadly product was too. Had terrorists got away with enough of the toxin to launch a strike? While the police and MI5 launched a massive manhunt, news of the poison sent a shiver through London that could not be attributed to last week's icy weather. "This has got everybody on edge," says Sonia Merzoug, a convert to Islam who has lived near the apartment - where one of the suspects was arrested - for the past seven years. "This is a bit too close to home for my liking." "The baseline anxiety level has been rising since...
...next competitive weapon is advanced data mining, which it will use to forecast, replenish and merchandise on a micro scale, so that even stores close to one another could have substantially different offerings. By analyzing years' worth of sales data - and then cranking in variables such as the weather and school schedules - the system could predict the optimal number of cases of Lucozade, in what flavors and sizes, a store in Canterbury should have on hand the Friday before a bank holiday. If the weather forecast suddenly called for temperatures 5C hotter than last year, the delivery truck would automatically...
With the recent onslaught of winter weather, the Square has once more regained its New England character. But one thing is noticeably absent this January: No longer do scantily clad mannequins mock us from the windows of Pacific Sunwear...
...time Watkins arrived, Enron was fast shedding its image as a staid natural-gas-pipeline company. Trading chief Jeffrey Skilling and his financial whiz, Andrew Fastow, wanted to build a nimble, "asset-light" firm that could exploit deregulating markets for energy, water, weather derivatives, broadband capacity and anything else that could be turned into a commodity. The strategy spawned explosive growth. By 2000, Enron was the seventh largest company in America. The '90s were fat times for Enron, and the corporate culture oozed in excess. The company rented ski condos in Beaver Creek, Colo., and stocked each with a personal...