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 I know you're all wondering what goes on inside my head, so here's what I was thinking today as I walked through Acme on the way home from work (I wish I was making this up). We pick up the story as I'm walking in the door...
Cart or no cart? No cart. I just need OJ and floss. Oooo cereal is on sale. How much cereal can I stuff in the closet before my roommates think I'm weird? Oh who cares, Triple Berry Cheerios are 40% off. I'm going wild! That sign says “Ready to Eat Cereal, 40% off.“ When is cereal NOT ready to eat? Does oatmeal count as cereal? Technically I guess that's not ready to eat because you have to add water and microwave it. How does oatmeal get thicker when you microwave it? Do the flakes melt? Ok two boxes of cereal, that's enough. What else... OJ and floss. That's all I came for. Mom always said never to grocery shop when you're hungry. OJ and floss... that's going to wreak havoc on their data mining efforts. This transaction will probably just be one of the statistical outliers that is discarded. Beer and diapers... that's the example they always used in class for weird buying patterns they found with data mining at grocery stores. Why do I always think about data mining when I'm buying groceries? Normal people don't do that. Normal people don't even know what data mining is. I wonder where the floss is. It's probably by the toothbrushes. Right here... AUGH! It's directly across the aisle from the orange juice!!! Impossible! Whoa... so maybe they've already done data mining and I'm just following a common pattern? Do a lot of people buy tooth care products and orange juice? I'm definitely going to blog this. |