Quote by Robin Sloan Download Open image ““Neel's model might match the store's volume but never its density”” — Robin Sloan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“But a retailer cannot slice and dice its customers at the brand level (i.e. chain) to the same degree. A retailer who seeks to… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
“FMCG manufacturers have long been preoccupied with the need to control shelfspace, because in-store presence is critical for low-value purchases, and” — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
“To a greater extent than before, the retailer has to use skill and judgement to allocate scarce shelfspace.” — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
“I attempted in vain to calculate the size of the holdings on the shelves, floor on floor, only to boggle hopelessly, baffled by bibliographic… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
“A store specialising in fresh perishable items that the shopper cannot stock up on at home will generate more frequent visits and a higher… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
“Generics would only come in one size and variant, never be promoted through price or displays and thus would not account for much volume.… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
And now, the Superstore - unequaled in size, unmatched in variety, unrivaled inconvenience. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“What’s that?” "It’s a book.” "What’s that, then?” "A non-volatile storage medium. It’s very rare, you should have one.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s a natural consequence of the capacity of a bookstore or library to contain entire worlds, whole universes, and all contained between the covers… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“It’s kind of sad how much value I was placing in the heaps of books I owned. Obviously it was more than their real… — Joshua Fields Millburn Copy Share Image
Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“I often buy print books only after I've read them in some digital form or other. It's my odd way of keeping the physical… — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
“But it will make mistakes," she says. "Hadoop will probably get us from a hundred thousand buildings down to, like, five thousand." "So we're… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
You can go as far back as fifth grade, and you will find me tinkering with media and computers, making things that are a… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Baking, by contrast, was solving the same problem over and over again, because every time, the solution was consumed. I mean, really: chewed and… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“I tell him, and I write it down as I go. It makes me feel better, as if the weirdness is flowing out of… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
There's just no escaping it: The half-life of media on the Internet is super short. Tweets flow and fade; pages that look great today… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“My limbic system has grown accustomed to a certain (very low) level of human (female) contact. With her standing right next to me, her… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“The shelves were packed close together, and it felt like I was standing at the border of a forest--not a friendly Californian forest, either,… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“How was New York?' Ashley asks politely. I'm not sure how to respond. Something like: Well, the mustachioed master of the secret library is… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
We range widely, we readers of fiction, but I think we all need a home. Mine is science fiction. It's my home shelf, my… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Neel cuts in: "Where'd you grow up?" "Palo Alto," she says. From there to Stanford to Google: for a girl obsessed with the outer… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
