A method to generate hypotheses on consumer payment behavior from market basket data is presented with which retailers can predict future cash requirements. This could help retailers to minimize the costs of cash management through rationalization and may also encourage the introduction of new...

Either empty inventories or empty shelves can cause stock-outs in retailing. Both can occur independently from each other, entail different kinds of damages and thus call for different counter measures. As such a counter measure, this paper presents a method to detect empty shelves through...