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Originally Posted by Seahawk
Blast from the past. 
Since I wrote this in 2018, my son started dating a Buyer for Dollar General, a Clemson graduate.
She buys certain candies for DG, just getting started, based on analytics that made my modeling heart swell.
We talked for an hour or so the first time we met - and trust me we both could have gone on and on. The level of analysis that goes not only into the purchase of bulk amounts of candy, but where the stocks are, what stores need them, age of the candy, current stock amount metrics, which hub, etc. They have tailored their models for specific regions, diets, time of year for specific candies, and so many other variables.
Great stuff. Real numbers, with variables, so decisions can be made. As opposed to... |
I saw a program on how they go into these smaller size towns and just kill the local grocery markets only because they have that market cornered with everything you will need in smaller quantity and the quick in and out was the key. For the big stuff, they wait in line at Wallmart. Yep, smart folks but the locals are fighting back protesting new openings.
A friend of mine that I go riding with has 4 of his apt complexes in escrow now (dumping due to CA politics and tighten rent controls) so he can buy buildings down in the southern states cater jsut for those stores. He sat outside many DS with a stop watch and calculate the amount of time a buy was in the store and the approx amount of good purchased. I am told those places are BUSY.