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Retail
Bookmarks
Target Practice: The Power of Predictive Analytics
Forbes coverage of Target's predictive analytics program — the famous pregnancy prediction story that showed retail chains could infer major life events from purchase patterns. A case study in both the power and the social friction of behavioral prediction at scale.
Walmart Makes Big Data Part of Its DNA
Walmart's 2013 integration of big data and social media analytics into retail operations — one of the first major brick-and-mortar retailers to make data infrastructure a competitive differentiator rather than just a reporting layer.
Amazon Same-Day Delivery: How the E-Commerce Giant Will Destroy Local Retail
Slate's 2012 analysis of how Amazon's same-day delivery push would eliminate local retail's last advantage — immediacy. Written before Amazon Fresh or Prime Now, this correctly identified the endgame of Amazon's logistics investment.