linkstream2 microblog

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“Brands that have similar access to customer data — while perhaps not on the Amazon scale — can follow suit. In some cases, they’re starting to: At Reformation’s newest stores, the sales floor layout is stripped down and streamlined to only display the brand’s top-performing items. The rest of the selection can be browsed via touch screens that show the full online store. (Digital screens as a utility, however, do have their own problems, like a barrier to scale.)”

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https://digiday.com/marketing/online-fashion-brands-can-learn-amazons-stores

original announcement here:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-05/tca-ldv050316.php Rumors that they will make his DNA public very soon.

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“Let’s imagine that the individual is you. The maternal genome (the copy from your mum, note correct spelling on mum) is shown on top, and the paternal genome on the bottom. I paint each chromosome with a colour indicating where an individual’s genetic material has been copied from. …Going another generation back see how this means that you have inherited the left part of chromosome 21 from your maternal grandma, and the right half of chromosome from your maternal grandfather.
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https://gcbias.org/2017/12/19/1628/

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/10/amazon-is-building-a-health-and-wellness-team-within-alexa.html

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/upshot/why-the-medical-research-grant-system-could-be-costing-us-great-ideas.html

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/travel/tech-devices-luggage.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/science/descending-testicles-evolution.html?smtyp=cur

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/science/human-age-limit.html

https://www.economist.com/business/2018/05/19/toyota-takes-a-winding-road-to-autonomous-vehicles

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“He cites the example of Target (TGT), which “recently began testing replenishing stores and digital orders from the same pool of inventory with one of its distribution centers in the Northeast and saw a 33% reduction in back room inventory for these stores while also reducing stock-outs by 50%.
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In fact, the switch to centralized inventory is key to his switching his view on Macy’s from “short” to “long”:”
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https://www.barrons.com/articles/12-companies-that-could-thrive-in-the-age-of-amazon-1528228978