At the time, according to Jim Olstrom, director of the home division of the retail-data collection firm NPD Group, the idea of a product specifically made for below-the-neck shaving barely existed.
The two types of retail data were collected through the online retail business and kept in the dataset pool.
The analytic process we propose for the extraction of the temporal purchasing profile assumes as input retail data, i.e., a collection of shopping sessions describing the shopping activities of a set of customers.
We employed four data collection methodologies: exit interviews, retail audits, mystery shoppers, and public facility audits.
DLDB retail audits were conducted twice during every data collection period, at a four week interval.
A convenience sample for private sector facilities was used because many doctors and retail pharmacy shops do not tolerate continued data collection processes.
However, the describe data collection should be complemented with a retail and carrier surveys.
The focus of both this research, and of the data collection process, was to investigate vehicle activity at urban retail establishments.
During the data collection period, 17995, 9205, and 5922 patients visiting private retail pharmacies, public facilities and private clinics, respectively, were included in our study.
In 2012, the data collection occurred while legislation banning display of tobacco products in retail stores was taking effect (July 2012).
In enrolled private retail pharmacies, 7101 patients (39.5%) out of 17995 patients visiting the pharmacies during data collection purchased an antibiotic (and were thus interviewed).
