Page 36 - Sales Data News Today

houstons daughter, hear bobbi kristina in her own words, this hour on cnn. hello, everyone. im don lemon. thank you for joining us. were going to start with this, the sun is rising over afghanistan, the day american soldiers could face the fury. a killing took place in kandahar province, considered the spiritual birthplace of the taliban. the suspect is a u.s. army soldier. he left his forward operating base early sunday morning and traveled to the villages where the murders took pla...

least 13 killed on monday including five people shot. five others were soldiers trying to defect. meanwhile, a u.n. spokesman says the arab league has asked for help. and pakistan supreme court has ordered the prime minister to appear at a contempt hearing on thursday. the judges want to know why he hasnt pursued corruption charngs. those are the headlines from cnn, the worlds news later. world business today starts now. >> hello, welcome to "world business today." >> and im andrew ste...

Five million existing home sales. not so according to corelogic. actually 3.2 million existing homes sales for that year, jenna. so the swings could be big. jenna: liz, did they say why they were so off if indeed that is the case? >> reporter: thats an important question. they did say why. they essentially relied on outdated census information going back to 2000. they also, accidentally double counted sales for different areas of the country. and they counted accidentally new home sales data in ...

Week. stores have been slowly beginning to pass the increases on to the buying public. but we havent seen any big spikes as of yet. well also get a gauge of how shoppers are feeling about the economy going forward with a reading on consumer sentiment in may. also on the economic calendar, the international trade plans as well as import and export prices will get a look at piz and whole sail inventory. its highlighted by cisco systems. well hear from department stores macys and nordstrom as well ...

Sounds outrageous that this is even possible and from what i understand when you got a tip and you started investigating this story, that you actually tried to obtain the public records and you were denied. >> right. the state rejected a public records request. we were asking for all of the money that comes out of every atm in the states welfare network and they said they couldnt provide that because it would be a violation of federal law to divulge the sales data of food retailers. that was, yo...

Valuable. >> we have a lot of data here that makes us feel great with the end customers. >> the beta stores have been turned into a research laboratory where manufacturers get realtime feedback on customers reaction. >> everything from traffic, impressions, customer engagement, demos, to sales data. >> the typical store about 3,000 feet has cameras on it. and they are being shown here. as you browse the products, we are able to stop and measure your intention for product and the ones youre ignor...

A showroom for their products but it also gives your marketing department something else, something extremely valuable. >> you get a lot of data that makes us feel great. >> its a research laboratory where manufacturers get realtime feedback on customers reactions. >> everything from traffic, impressions, customer engagement, demos, you know, to sales data. >> the typical store, about 3,000 square feet has about 150 cameras in it. those cameras are being trained through algorithms to identify wh...

The second, third, fourth time theyre buying glasses theyre doing so online. once we establish that trust, once people are familiar with the experience, theyre much more likely to repurchase online. >> interacting with people at the stores also means they have a better pulse on what the customer wants. >> at times online were just looking at sales data to help influence design, but its less forward thinking and more backward thinking. well see people come in, maybe theyre looking for a cat eye o...