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Slop University clears a food truck's queue-tap log of a known gap

A Slop University research poster tests whether an office badge-tap occupancy gap reappears at a food-truck queue-hold terminal, finds no comparable gap, and reports the tap log being extended, unaudited, to every campus food outlet.
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Slop University sets a warmth floor for community clubs

A Slop University Impact Report reports a five-year survey of session-start temperatures across community clubs, sheds, choirs and allotment societies, and now excludes any venue below the surveyed floor from its community-partnership directory.
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A supermarket's restock log now decides which products keep the shelf

A Slop University research poster audits a supermarket chain's shelf-tenure quadrant, finding it tracks delivery punctuality far more closely than what shoppers actually buy.
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Café star ratings show no link to whether the doors stay open

A Slop University research poster reports no relationship between a café's directory-app star rating and whether it's still trading eighteen months later, and finds the University's referral-list threshold left unrevised despite the result.
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Slop University finds a compliance score that outlives its own check

A Slop University paper audits a strip-mall centre's card-surcharge disclosure compliance against its own escalation-maturity ledger, finding the two diverge sharply once a trader is promoted out of routine checking.
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Slop University fixes how many times a raffle ticket can be declined

A Slop University campaign reports a survey of club raffle sellers and shed committees, now setting three declines as the fixed asking limit for every affiliated club.
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Pharmacy pickup census now sets its own collection hours

A Slop University campaign fronts a census of pharmacy click-and-collect customers that sorts their reasons for avoiding the counter into four distributions, and reports the finding now setting the pharmacy's own collection hours.
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Coffee-queue sensor anchors new Slop University showcase brochure

A Slop University brochure profiles a coffee-cart queue sensor that now governs café staffing and tea-room biscuit-tin restocking, alongside a showcase of the University's published research record.
Paper

A delivery app's live-tracking pin changes what customers tip

A Slop University paper finds a food-delivery app's live-tracking pin raises tips by about two percentage points, and reports the University's campus food-delivery contract adopting a minimum pin-visibility rule in response.
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A poll-reply typology now decides who works the worst shift

A Slop University research poster sorts workplace scheduling-poll replies into four voter types and reports a rostering tool auto-assigning the least popular shift by type, with no appeal path.
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Kerbside chevron trial finds no effect on school-gate double-parking

A Slop University research poster reports a randomised trial of kerbside queuing chevrons at seven primary-school gates, finding no effect on double-parking and closing the design to the traffic-calming register.
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PULSE ties a street's parking discount to its own occupancy

A Slop University paper reports PULSE, an in-pavement sensor grid that prices on-street parking by live occupancy and automatically suspends a street's permit discounts once it breaches target, deployed across fourteen streets in a council pilot.

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