In the course of doing so, Home Depot has increased its average customer ticket and sales per square meter by 3.8% a year since 1989.

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The solution to this dilemma is to make real-time (and day-ahead) pricing and meter data information to the customer at all times.

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One is the "host" meter, which will communicate with the customer and the supplier.

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