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Shoe business

Every week, before we read the Backbytes email, in a spirit of optimism we wonder: ‘What’s on the mind of our readers this week?’
‘Roger Audley described removing half the shoes from Freemans mail-order catalogue; this begged the question: was this all the left shoes or all the right ones?’ asks Rob Gilliam at Reuters Transactions Group.
‘This assumes, of course, that each pair of shoes is stored as two separate items in the database, which could create some interesting fulfilment issues for customers.’ So now we know.

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