A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement sorts each of 44,736 cups handed out at twelve supermarket tasting tables into four named cells --- Redundant, Put Back, Converted and Passed --- by the shopper's trolley at hand-over and basket at the till. Under a renewal condition on the share of cups followed by a purchase, the Redundant cell rises from 9% to 52% and Converted cups per stall-hour fall from 6.5 to 2.1 with unit sales unchanged; the Adaptive Metrics Lab now licenses every table on the Converted cell alone, under an Empty-Trolley Rule with no override at the table.
| Authors | Eivind Onwuka , Thandiwe Solberg , Casimir Beng |
|---|---|
| School | School of Continuous Improvement |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.43488f |
| Pages | 5 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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Cite as
@misc{slop_43488f,
author = {Eivind Onwuka and Thandiwe Solberg and Casimir Beng},
title = {Tasting Stalls Licensed on Bought Share Hand Their Cups to Shoppers Already Holding the Product},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.43488f},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-adaptive-metrics-43488f/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}