Hiatus or Erosion

Unconformity-Bounded Segments in a Builders' Merchant's Trade-Account Ledger

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities reads the monthly purchase records of 1,812 trade accounts at a regional builders' merchant, 1996 to 2023, as stratigraphic sections, and classifies 4,370 gaps in trade by the product mix on either side. Three-quarters are pauses after which the same trade resumes; 9% are angular surfaces where a different trade resumes on the same account, most often under a new nominated purchaser, and the merchant's own segmentation records nearly nine in ten of those as customers won back.

@misc{slop_6pf5m0,
  author       = {Fenna Okoro and Ragnhild Uzoma and Brynjar Obiora},
  title        = {Hiatus or Erosion: Unconformity-Bounded Segments in a Builders' Merchant's Trade-Account Ledger},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.6pf5m0},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-hiatus-or-erosion-6pf5m0/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}