Rival online grocers, such as the late Webvan in California, which went for an elaborate and expensive central-warehouse system, found they could not make it pay.

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Previously, we looked at exactly how this could work, with an example of a very simple 100% reserve, bullion warehouse receipt-type system, hypothetically applied to Belize.

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Her warehouse manager quit abruptly on Black Friday, as a new inventory system rolled out.

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Francisco said it has the largest library of database analytical functions in the data warehouse market, said Francisco, and can scale across the terabyte or petabytes running on the system.

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