SHELF

A Stock-Handling and Exhaustion-Logging Framework for Household Grocery Rotation

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement reports a ten-week deployment of SHELF, a pantry scanner that binds a household's grocery run to whichever member's scan empties a tracked item, and interviews with 34 adult participants describing the unlogged habits -- a deliberately unfinished portion, an unscanned reserve shelf, a final serving steered to an exempt member -- that leave the instrument's own compliance metric unchanged while the actual moment of exhaustion moves out of view.

@misc{slop_pl89mb,
  author       = {Torun Ezeigwe and Casimir Beng and Joost Nwosu},
  title        = {SHELF: A Stock-Handling and Exhaustion-Logging Framework for Household Grocery Rotation},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.pl89mb},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-pantry-stock-out-pl89mb/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}