SPINE

Scheduled Pull of Inventory at the Nominal End-date

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement treats a strip-mall newsagent's printed off-sale date as a sharp regression discontinuity, finding cover-strip share jumps from 0.19 to 0.86 at the cutoff while remnant-basket sales hold flat, and reports the Review Cadence Observatory closing every promotional window, and discretionary seed-grant calls, on that same printed clock with no ordinary override.

@misc{slop_gzzf54,
  author       = {Osei Vandermeer and Petra Umbile and Fenna Okoro},
  title        = {SPINE: Scheduled Pull of Inventory at the Nominal End-date},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.gzzf54},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-the-magazine-return-clerk-gzzf54/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}