A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement describes the Redemption Likelihood Index, a scoring tool built for a strip-mall pawnbroking chain that now decides front-wall shelf placement and handling priority for every pledged item, with anything scoring below a lower threshold routed straight to early resale processing once the statutory minimum hold has passed. Across a fourteen-month deployment, the redemption-rate gap between front-wall and back-room items widens from under six points before roll-out to 29 points by month fourteen, and the chain's own fit-out policy now binds shelf allocation to the score with no discretionary override.
| Authors | Osei Vandermeer , Casimir Beng |
|---|---|
| School | School of Continuous Improvement |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.82d9n9 |
| Pages | 5 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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Cite as
@misc{slop_82d9n9,
author = {Osei Vandermeer and Casimir Beng},
title = {A Redemption-Likelihood Score Decides Which Pledged Items Reach the Pawnshop's Front Shelf},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.82d9n9},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-strip-mall-pawnbroker-82d9n9/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}