METHODS AND APPARATUS TO RESPOND TO RECALLS
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1. A method comprising:
- receiving product recall information;
generating at least one store cohort based on the received product recall information to represent a plurality of stores spatially arranged based on relative similarities to at least one channel;
generating at least one ranked list of contact information based on the at least one store cohort; and
disseminating the received product recall information to an entity associated with the contact information.
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus to respond to recalls are disclosed. An example method includes receiving product recall information and generating at least one store cohort based on the received product recall information to represent a plurality of stores spatially arranged based on relative similarities to at least one channel. The example method also includes generating at least one ranked list of contact information based on the at least one store cohort, and disseminating the received product recall information to an entity associated with the contact information.
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receiving product recall information; generating at least one store cohort based on the received product recall information to represent a plurality of stores spatially arranged based on relative similarities to at least one channel; generating at least one ranked list of contact information based on the at least one store cohort; and disseminating the received product recall information to an entity associated with the contact information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. An apparatus to respond to a product recall comprising:
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a market intelligence database to store data indicative of a plurality of merchants and a plurality of medical professionals; and a rapid response cohort system to receive product recall information, identify affected merchant locations in the plurality of merchant locations, identify medical professionals in the plurality of medical professionals proximate respective ones of the affected merchant locations, and generate a first cohort containing a plurality of cells, each of the cells representing a corresponding one of the affected merchant locations, the cells being placed in the cohort based on at least two relationships between the affected merchant locations. - View Dependent Claims (21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 38)
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39. A method to validate post-product recall compliance comprising:
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generating a ranked list of geographies affected by a product recall; generating a ranked list of stores affected by the recall; retrieving point-of-sale data from at least one store in the ranked list of stores associated with a corresponding geography; and identifying a quantity of recalled product sold at the at least one store after a recall date. - View Dependent Claims (40)
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