{"id":403,"date":"2010-08-09T19:09:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T00:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=403"},"modified":"2010-08-09T19:09:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T00:09:14","slug":"so-whos-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"So, Who&#8217;s Counting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/22\/tracking-u-s-mood-through-twitter\/\">Researchers<\/a> have tracked Tweets to see which part of the country is happy or if our mood changes during the week. \u00a0Here is evidence that retailers will use sales information to change the way merchandise in their stores is organized. \u00a0I think this is how Wal-Mart &#8220;realized&#8221; consumers were having stay-cations.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the height of the recession in 2008,\u00a0<a title=\"More information about Wal-Mart Stores Inc\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/business\/companies\/wal_mart_stores_inc\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Wal-Mart Stores<\/a> realized that consumers were \u201ccocooning\u201d \u2014 vacationing in their yards, eating more dinners at home, organizing family game nights. So it responded by grouping items in its stores that would turn any den into an at-home movie theater or transform a backyard into a slice of the Catskills. Wal-Mart wasn\u2019t just selling barbecues and board games. It was selling experiences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/08\/business\/08consume.html\">But Will It Make You Happy?<\/a> By\u00a0<a title=\"More Articles by Stephanie Rosenbloom\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/r\/stephanie_rosenbloom\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have tracked Tweets to see which part of the country is happy or if our mood changes during the week. \u00a0Here is evidence that retailers will use sales information to change the way merchandise in their stores is organized. \u00a0I think this is how Wal-Mart &#8220;realized&#8221; consumers were having stay-cations. At the height of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=403\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So, Who&#8217;s Counting?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[407],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}