Walmart Captures Point-Of-Sale Transactions from Thousands of Stores in Several

question 41

Multiple Choice

Walmart captures point-of-sale transactions from thousands of stores in several countries and continuously transmits these data to its massive data warehouse.Walmart allows more than 3,500 suppliers to access data on their products and perform data analyses.These suppliers use the data to identify customer buying patterns at the store level.They use this information to manage local store inventory and identify new merchandising opportunities.Both Walmart and its suppliers are engaged in:

• A) information formatting.
• B) database enhancement.
• C) data mining.
• D) data shading.
• E) descriptive modeling.

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