information from large databases. The retail industry has recently seen the growing number of data mining applications in reducing time and cost for the industry. The paper defines data mining and the seven operations of data mining that have been classified through many different literatures. It then focus on the important applications of data mining in retail industry including marketing‚ customer relationship management‚ risk management‚ fraud detection and retail inventory management. Further discussion
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Indirect Cost Rate Questions and Answers What is an indirect cost? Indirect costs represent the expenses of doing business that are not readily identified with a particular grant‚ contract‚ project function‚ or activity‚ but are necessary for the general operation of the organization and the conduct of activities it performs. In theory‚ costs like heat‚ light‚ accounting‚ and personnel might be charged directly if little meters could record minutes in a cross-cutting manner. However‚ this is
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Short Article Analysis: Shoplifting and Employee Theft The first article about shoplifting and employee thefts that I have selected revealed that employee theft is on the rise and shoplifting‚ even though it is up 11% is not the biggest hurdle for employers. The reason employee theft is on the rise mainly falls on the amount of layoffs in the workplace. When layoffs are high‚ employees that remain have to work longer and harder with little‚ if any‚ extra benefits. According to the article “We
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Contents GNC Company Overview 3 Retail Strategy 3 Target Market 3 Positioning 3 Merchandise and services offered 4 Pricing 5 Advertising and promotions 7 Store design and atmospherics 8 Location 9 Customer service 10 Use of Technology 10 Performance Evaluations 12 Works Cited 14 GNC Company Overview General Nutrition Companies‚ INC. was founded in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania by David Shakarian in 1935 as a single‚ specialized‚ general health retail store (Histories‚ 2011). Since
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Ok so you are in a store and you see this cute wallet‚ your like wow this is nice. Then you notice the price is affordable‚ but the manager went out back to get some thing. You look around and see that there are no cameras‚ no sensor devices and no one looking at you. This is your chance. I mean it’s right there why not just pick it up slip it in your pocket and walk out of the store like nothing has ever happened. No one will notice you took it‚ its just one wallet and the store has dozens of them
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Retailing Concept includes customer orientation (where the retailer seeks to establish and maintain long-term relationships with the customer and the belief that profit and satisfactory return on investment can only be achieved by identifying‚ anticipating and satisfying customer needs and desires) and uses a coordinated effort (where the retailer integrates all plans and activities to maximize business efficiency) to be value-driven (where the retailer offers good value to the customer and has prices
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study of fifty-nine inmates all in prison for some sort of identity theft. When asked why they committed identity left most of them said it is because it is an easy way to get quick cash and get a lot of it. “Many identity thieves claimed that they spent money on everyday items.” Some of them blow the money on drugs and partying but those actions make their risk of getting caught higher. The motivation for becoming an identity theft can be as simple as being in poverty or as complicated as losing a
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I woke up on a Friday morning in December on the 23. I sat down in the chair in front of the tv and logged onto Grand Theft Auto. Robert‚ Cam‚ and James were on xbox live with me. I went out to my truck to go to the auto garage. When I was driving I turned around a corner‚ I was going minding my own business. There was an R.V. on my side of the road. They were going 90 miles per hour. They started to swerve and so did I. I hit the brakes and swerved even worse. I was siting in the way‚ so I
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ARGUMENTATIVE RESEARCH ESSAY XXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXXXXX I love to shop. My obsession with shopping started with my heartbreak. My first love broke my heart by cheating on me‚ and got another girl pregnant. But that wasn’t the worst I was also pregnant but I had a miscarriage at six months. I have the typical Black syndrome‚ and foolishly believe I do not need therapy and can self-treat psychological issues. I’ve always been strong
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GSM BASED VEHICLE THEFT SYSTEM What is GSM? • GSM stand for GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION developed European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe protocols for second generation ( 2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile phones. • The GSM standard was developed as a replacement for first generation (1G) analog cellular networks‚ and originally described a digital‚ circuit-switched network optimized for full duplex voice telephony. This was expanded over time
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