Property of Fluctuations of Sales Quantities by Product Category in Convenience Stores.

The ability to ascertain the extent of product sale fluctuations for each store and locality is indispensable to inventory management. This study analyzed POS data from 158 convenience stores in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan and found a power scaling law between the mean and standard dev...

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Main Authors: Gaku Fukunaga, Hideki Takayasu, Misako Takayasu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4911113?pdf=render