RAIL

Return Allocation Intelligence Layer for Fitting-Room Re-Shelving Priority

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities describes RAIL, a fitting-room RFID system that scores garment re-shelving urgency from co-try-on patterns across six boutiques in one strip mall. The mall's tenancy body has adopted RAIL's nightly shrinkage-risk score as the sole criterion for renewing a boutique's fitting-room floor space at each six-monthly lease review, with no discretionary override.

@misc{slop_viuoft,
  author       = {Ronja Oyelaran and Anneke Tolan and Iben Chikere},
  title        = {RAIL: Return Allocation Intelligence Layer for Fitting-Room Re-Shelving Priority},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.viuoft},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-the-boutique-s-fitting-room-viuoft/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}