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gcmartinelli
on June 20, 2012
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A $1 billion idea...that I know I'm not ready for
as far as I know, they collect the data manually (people actually go there and ask how much of each product has been sold). but I may be mistaken
rhizome
on June 20, 2012
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No, they don't. I worked for a company who did this (as well as partnered with both Nielsen and Catalina for customer-level data) and all of our data arrived in text files (CSV, TSV, etc.) exported from their POS systems.
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