Slop University has published a case-for-support brochure setting out how one supermarket branch's uncancelled loyalty-card rate rise became the required opening case in its Master of Priority Studies, and invites partners to fund the fieldwork that keeps finding them.
A new brochure follows a supermarket loyalty scheme's uncancelled rate rise into the Master of Priority Studies' compulsory syllabus
Slop University has published Measuring What Outlives Its Reason, a case-for-support brochure built around a single supermarket branch’s loyalty-card ledger — and the earn-rate rise on it that nobody ever wound back down.
The rise was added years ago to offset a supplier surcharge; the surcharge is gone, and the twenty cents it justified is not. The School of Emergent Priorities has made the till log the required opening case in the Master of Priority Studies’ foundational unit, with no substitute permitted until the branch’s own rate moves again.
The rate outlived the reason years ago. The case exists so a graduate learns to ask which of their own numbers already has.
— Dr Anouk Mensah, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Emergent Priorities
The brochure sets that case beside seven of the University’s published studies of the instruments an ordinary shopping trip already keeps, and profiles the researchers behind them. “A case earns tenure on a syllabus the same way a policy earns permanence,” said Associate Professor Kwame Lindqvist, Director of the Master of Priority Studies. “Nobody actively decides, and then nobody can move it.”
The publication doubles as an invitation: the University is opening its case-method program to donors and retail partners willing to fund the unhurried work of finding the next till log worth this much attention. The full brochure is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.h8ywrt.