While it is a double CD, the price is strikingly higher than Wal-Mart’s tag of $11.88. The fact that the albums were selling out came as a surprise, considering the CD at Virgin came with price tags ranging from $18.99 to $24.99. Of the Virgins carrying the album, most started selling it today, one week after the album’s release, while two said they started selling the CDs on October 30th, the same day as the “exclusive” Wal-Mart on-sale date, with one store even “selling out” their fairly large stock. We called eight Virgin Megastores in five different states, and discovered seven had Long Road in stock, although none of them had the album prominently listed in their in-store inventory directories. “Someone told me it was the third-best seller for Virgin.” “We’re aware of that - I’ve heard that some stores here are selling imports,” Billboard charts editor Geoff Mayfield tells Rolling Stone. Not only that, it didn’t take speakeasy tactics to secure a copy some stores were boasting the album by the dozen in front display cases, where new releases are usually showcased (see above, a shot from a New York City Virgin Megastore boasting a price sticker of $18.99). We investigated these claims and discovered that the CDs are indeed being sold outside of Wal-Mart. But then we heard whispers that people were finding the new “exclusive” album at small mom-and-pop record stores and, remarkably, big chains like Virgin Megastore. Thanks to the power of technology, we’re able to bring you and your loved ones the freshest food, even faster.When the Eagles announced that they would exclusively sell their new double album Long Road Out of Eden for an entire year at Wal-Mart (and their own Web site), fans across the nation - especially those in Wal-Mart-less towns like New York City and Los Angeles - wondered how they’d get their hands on copy without journeying to the retail giant. We’re proud to say that we’re the very first retailer who has digitized this entire process. What was once a manual inspection process is now more efficient and thorough than ever. Already, Eden is being used in 43 distribution centers and has prevented $86 million in waste from happening. Our goal is to eliminate $2 billion in waste over the next five years. The bananas end up in a closer store to optimize freshness, consumers take home a delicious bunch, and everyone is happy.Įden also helps eliminate food waste. On such a long road, what happens to those bananas if temperatures in the container trucks exceed acceptable ranges? In the future, Eden will be able to recalculate the freshness factor and re-route the shipment immediately. Bananas travel from seven countries in Latin America to over 4,000 stores in the U.S. This tasty fruit is consistently among the best-selling grocery items in Walmart’s U.S. So they gathered the many chapters of food product specifications set by the USDA, layered on Walmart’s own rigorous product standards, and combined all of this information with more than a million photos to create a freshness algorithm that prioritizes the flow of perishable goods worldwide.įor example, take everybody’s favorite, the banana. The winning team determined that building a digital library of food standards was the answer. Our goal was to figure out the best way to keep track of food freshness all the way from the farms to our stores. Developed in just six months by our own associates, it is improving the quality and flow of fresh groceries from farm to shelf.Įden is the result of a friendly competition, or hackathon, among the engineers on our fresh merchandising teams. We think our new intelligent food system called Eden can help. But when you’re shopping with limited time, how can you be sure you’re buying the freshest apples, milk that will last, or perfectly ripe bananas? No matter the answer, there are some givens: It has to taste good, be good for you, and be affordable.
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