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How are in-store pickup sales tracked for revenue?

So, obviously, if you go to a brick-n-mortar store and buy something there, it counts as a sale for the store, with stores that don’t get enough sales often closing. But if I order something online from, say, Best Buy and pick it up in store, how is that tracked? Does it count as a sale for the store, even though I didn’t...

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Retail guy here.

Everything is usually in a centralized database of orders that are tagged with the point of sale location and the store, warehouse, or vendor that the product came from.

Warehouses and retail stores also have inventory databases that tell them how quickly something sells, when they need to buy new supply, and where that supply needs to go.

It kind of doesn’t matter where the sale comes from as long as you know where inventory is and is not needed.

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Correct. It really depends on how the business want do set things up. No one size fits all. Really all boils down to how the technology, data science, and finance teams want to solve the problem.

Ideally, if you can start over from scratch, it’s nice to have one generic data lake, then just run queries to tell you how a specific retail platform or location is performing.

Ghostalmedia, (edited )
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Because the hot new meme is old memes.

Ghostalmedia,
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Yeah, I might be to blame for some of that shit. I started !antiquememesroadshow a few months ago, then it blew up and started covering c/all, then it spread like herpes to the other meme communities.

Shit has died way down since that one weird week.

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