iTrackr Test

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My Saturday itrackr update:  Still showing 5 stores with stock.  1 is the now 42 day old comp usa and 4 targets.  Each are at 5+ days old as an update so clearly they are holding stock for this sunday (as they have done in the past) or the system is totally wrong.  Assuming that the Sunday release is correct, I'll return to the same 1/17 stores that I have had for the last 42 days (comp usa has an issue, obviously).

A bigger question I have is this:  If itracker is anywhere near "real-time" with some of these stores, why not sample the data once per hour and "update it".  I.e. if Target is actually showing inventory in their system, update the "time since last update" so that the data is fresh.  I'm assuming at this point that the tool checks stock electronically for a given store and re-checks on a regular interval but does not "update" the data unless there is a change -- i.e. from stock to no-stock or vice-versa.  I don't know that I'd trust itrakr "nationwide availability" numbers until the items like the wii are more or less readily available and then the store data will be more accurate.  Catch 22, though, as why would you use itrakr when an item becomes more or less nationally available at most stores that carry the item?