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Wal-Mart's Data Obsession

Posted by timothy on from the what-do-you-want-today dept.

g8oz writes "The New York Times covers Wal-Mart's obsession with collecting sales data. Fun fact: 'Wal-Mart has 460 terabytes of data stored on Teradata mainframes, at its Bentonville headquarters. To put that in perspective, the Internet has less than half as much data, according to experts.' That much information results in some interesting data-mining. Did you know hurricanes increase strawberry Pop Tarts sales 7-fold?"

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  1. Re:I, for one, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    suck the fuck up you cock sucker

  2. Re:economies of scale by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Sure, Mr. Knows-everything-about-data. Ya just plug in into Teradata, and it all just works with no effort required, right?

    Sheesh, look at the fucking ego on this guy. Prolly thinks 2TB is "big", too.

    What I don't understand: if Slashdot is all "slashbots" that "think IT and internet are synonymous", why are you still here, still reading the comments, and still posting after n years? Just to feel "old-sk00l"? You've posted over 4000 comments, for the love of God.

  3. Re:FUCK the New York Times by todu · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well. The body was redundant with the subject5. Aka funny.

  4. Re:"Nothing for you to see here. Please move along by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    So? You just suck.