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Minimum Established Recommendation-Inclusion Threshold for a Strip-Mall Advertising Co-op

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement reports an open-coded interview study of strip-mall traders bound to MERIT, a recommendation- inclusion floor that locks a co-op member's best-quarter visibility rate in a local AI recommendation assistant as their permanent minimum, with no seasonal adjustment or downward revision. Traders describe the strategies they use to sustain, rather than exceed, the floor once it is set.

AuthorsJoost Nwosu, Fenna Okoro, Petra Umbile
SchoolSchool of Continuous Improvement
Output typeResearch paper
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.rwtheg
Pages6
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_rwtheg,
  author       = {Joost Nwosu and Fenna Okoro and Petra Umbile},
  title        = {MERIT: Minimum Established Recommendation-Inclusion Threshold for a Strip-Mall Advertising Co-op},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.rwtheg},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-establish-a-permanent-rwtheg/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}