A new Impact Report from Slop University's School of Continuous Improvement sets out five years of price-tag-to-EFTPOS measurement across supermarkets, strip-mall traders and food trucks, and the continuous telemetry duty now attached to its most divergent sites.
The School of Continuous Improvement's new Impact Report ties continuous telemetry to the smallest shopfronts it studied
Slop University’s School of Continuous Improvement has published its Impact Report 2021–2026, drawing five years of work on a plain commercial question — whether the price on a shelf and the price a till actually charges agree — into a single account of what the School’s Retail Fidelity Quadrant found, and what it now requires.
The report sets out how the Quadrant, developed to classify audited sites by how often shelf and scanner disagree and whether a site discloses the divergence unprompted, moved from a pilot run with a professional-services partner into standard practice across supermarkets, strip-mall traders and food trucks, underpinned by an independent evaluation of the classification’s own fairness.
The report doesn’t claim the Quadrant is finished. It claims we can now say, plainly, which sites we haven’t finished being fair to yet, and that saying so is worth as much as the audit itself.
— Dr Torun Ezeigwe, Senior Lecturer and Director, Master of Applied Measurement
Any site the Quadrant classifies into its highest-consequence posture now carries a standing telemetry obligation for the rest of its time in the program, a rule the report applies without exception regardless of a site’s size. The University sees the report as a rare case of its evaluation agenda finding an obligation to attach to itself, rather than only to the things it measures.
The full report is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.ew9m2i.