Introduction

Point of Sale Software Statistics: Point of Sale (POS) software is a crucial tool for businesses. Enabling efficient transaction processing, inventory management, and customer relationship tracking.

It integrates payment processing, sales reporting, and employee management into one system, providing real-time data for decision-making.

POS software can be traditional, cloud-based, or mobile, each offering different levels of flexibility and accessibility.

The system often requires hardware such as barcode scanners, receipt printers, and payment terminals. Key benefits include improved transaction speed, inventory accuracy, and enhanced customer experiences.

With trends like omnichannel integration and mobile payment support, POS systems continue to evolve, becoming indispensable for modern businesses.

This is a case study for the company to improve sales

Business Goal
Date: 2023/09/15
Dataset: Sales quantity of a certain brand from January to December 2022 and from January to September 2023.

Please describe what you observe (no specific presentation format required). Among your observations, identify at least three valuable insights and explain why you consider them valuable.
If more resources were available to you (including time, information, etc.), what would you need, and what more could you achieve?

Metadata of the file Data Period: January 2022 - September 2023 Data Fields: - item - store_id - sales of each month

Metadata of the file Data Period: January 2022 - September 2023 Data Fields: - item - store_id - sales of each month

Sample question & answer 1. Product insights: identify the product sales analysis, such as BCG matrix 2. Store insights: identify the sales performance of the sales 3. Supply chain insights: identify the demand 4. Time series forecasting: identify tread, seasonality

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Data showing how many books were sold in 2024 revealed that the printed book market remains healthy: a total of ***** million units were sold that year among outlets which reported to the source. Whilst this marked a small jump from the previous year, the figure peaked in 2021 and has not surpassed *** million since. Trade paperbacks remained the dominant format. Book sales statistics Looking at book sales by year, 2005 to 2010 were the most lucrative for the printed book market, with well over *** million units sold annually during that five-year period. After dropping below *** million in 2012, gradual and consistent increases can be seen each year, with the exception of between the years 2018 and 2019. For bookstores though, how many books are sold each year depends on the success of key months across a twelve-month period. Bookstore sales in the United States are at their highest in December, January, and August, but figures for December are consistently higher than other months. Books are popular holiday gifts, with around ** to ** percent of consumers responding to annual surveys in each year from 2012 to 2020 saying that they planned to purchase books as presents during the festive season.

Graph and download economic data for Existing Home Sales (EXHOSLUSM495S) from Oct 2024 to Oct 2025 about headline figure, sales, housing, and USA.

Dataset

This dataset was created by Jyoti Dabass

Released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Contents

Retail Sales in Finland increased 0.40 percent in October of 2025 over the previous month. This dataset provides - Finland Retail Sales MoM - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

In 2024, the in-store or brick-and-mortar retail channel was forecast to account for **** percent of total retail sales in the United States. By 2028, e-commerce is expected to make up ** percent of all retail sales.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of house sales in the UK spiked, followed by a period of decline. In 2023 and 2024, the housing market slowed notably, and in January 2025, transaction volumes fell to 46,774. House sales volumes are impacted by a number of factors, including mortgage rates, house prices, supply, demand, as well as the overall health of the market. The economic uncertainty and rising unemployment rates has also affected the homebuyer sentiment of Brits. How have UK house prices developed over the past 10 years? House prices in the UK have increased year-on-year since 2015, except for a brief period of decline in the second half of 2023 and the beginning of 2024. That is based on the 12-month percentage change of the UK house price index. At the peak of the housing boom in 2022, prices soared by nearly 14 percent. The decline that followed was mild, at under three percent. The cooling in the market was more pronounced in England and Wales, where the average house price declined in 2023. Conversely, growth in Scotland and Northern Ireland continued. What is the impact of mortgage rates on house sales? For a long period, mortgage rates were at record-low, allowing prospective homebuyers to take out a 10-year loan at a mortgage rate of less than three percent. In the last quarter of 2021, this period came to an end as the Bank of England rose the bank lending rate to contain the spike in inflation. Naturally, the higher borrowing costs affected consumer sentiment, urging many homebuyers to place their plans on hold and leading to a decline in sales.

In 2024, Kroger's sales amounted to around ***** billion U.S. dollars, down from the previous year, when they amounted to approximately ***** billion. Kroger is a supermarket chain operating in the United States. It was founded by Bernard Kroger in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1883.

The chart provides an insightful analysis of the estimated sales amounts for Consumer Electronics stores across various platforms. Custom Cart stands out, generating a significant portion of sales with an estimated amount of $1.09T, which is 95.18% of the total sales in this category. Following closely, Shopify accounts for $28.84B in sales, making up 2.53% of the total. WooCommerce also shows notable performance, contributing $9.17B to the total sales, representing 0.80%. This data highlights the sales dynamics and the varying impact of each platform on the Consumer Electronics market.

View monthly updates and historical trends for US Retail and Food Services Sales. from United States. Source: Census Bureau. Track economic data with YCha…

Online Retail Sales and Customer Data

Transactional Data with Product and Customer Details in Online Retail

By Marc Szafraniec [source]

About this dataset

The InvoiceNo column holds unique identifiers for each transaction conducted. This numerical code serves a twofold purpose: it facilitates effortless identification of individual sales or purchases while simultaneously enabling treasury management by offering a repository for record keeping.

In concordance with the invoice number is the InvoiceDate column. It provides a date-time stamp associated with every transaction, which can reveal patterns in purchasing behaviour over time and assists with record-keeping requirements.

The StockCode acts as an integral part of this dataset; it encompasses alphanumeric sequences allocated distinctively to every item in stock. Such a system aids unequivocally identifying individual products making inventory records seamless.

The Description field offers brief elucidations about each listed product, adding layers beyond just stock codes to aid potential customers' understanding of products better and make more informed choices.

Detailed logs concerning sold quantities come under the Quantity banner - it lists the units involved per transaction alongside aiding calculations regarding total costs incurred during each sale/purchase offering significant help tracking inventory levels based on products' outflow dynamics within given periods.

Retail isn't merely about what you sell but also at what price you sell- A point acknowledged via our inclusion of unit prices exerted on items sold within transactions inside our dataset's UnitPrice column which puts forth pertinent pricing details serving as pivotal factors driving metrics such as gross revenue calculation etc

Finally yet importantly is our dive into foreign waters - literally! With impressive international outreach we're looking into segmentation bases like geographical locations via documenting countries (under the name Country) where transactions are conducted & consumers reside extending opportunities for businesses to map their customer bases, track regional performance metrics, extend localization efforts and overall contributing to the formulation of efficient segmentation strategies.

All this invaluable information can be found in a sortable CSV file titled online_retail.csv. This dataset will prove incredibly advantageous for anyone interested in or researching online sales trends, developing customer profiles, or gaining insights into effective inventory management practices

How to use the dataset

Identifying Products: StockCode is the unique identifier for each product. You can use it to identify individual products, track their sales, or discover patterns related to specific items.

Assessing Sales Volume: Quantity column tells you about the number of units of a product involved in each transaction. Along with InvoiceNo, you can analyze overall sales volume or specific purchases throughout your selected period.

Observing Price Fluctuations: By using the UnitPrice, not only can the total cost per transaction be calculated (by multiplying with Quantity), but also insightful observations like price fluctuations over time or determining most profitable items could be derived.

Analyzing Description Patterns/Trends: The Description field sheds light upon what kind of products are being traded. This could provide some inspiration for text analysis like term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF), sentiment analysis on descriptions, etc., to figure out popular trends at given times.

Analysing Geographical Trends: With the help of Country column, geographical trends in sales volumes across different nations can easily be analyzed i.e., which location has more customers or which country orders more quantity or expensive units based on unit price and quantity columns respectively.

Keep in mind that proper extraction and transformation methodology should be applied while handling data from different columns as per their datatypes (textual/alphanumeric/numeric) requirements.

This dataset not only allows retailers to gain an immediate understanding into their operations but could also serve as a base dataset for those interested in machine learning regarding predicting future transactions

Research Ideas

• Inventory Management: By tracking the 'Quantity' and 'StockCode' over time, a business could use this data to notice if certain products are frequently purchased together or in specific seasons, allowing them to better stock their inventory.
• Pricing Strategy:...

This dataset provides values for EXISTING HOME SALES reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

Retail Trade, sales by industries based on North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), monthly.

This dataset, identified by the series ID RSXFS, is sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau and is available through the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) system of the St. Louis Fed. It provides a monthly measure of retail sales across the United States. The data represents the total value of sales at retail and food services stores, measured in millions of dollars and adjusted for seasonal variations. It is important to note that the most recent month's value is an advance estimate, which is subject to revision in subsequent months as more comprehensive data becomes available. As a key economic indicator, this series is widely used by economists and analysts to gauge consumer spending and assess the overall health of the U.S. economy.

Suggested Use Cases: - This dataset is highly valuable for economic analysis and can be used to: - Conduct time series analysis and modeling. - Track consumer spending patterns. - Forecast future retail sales. - Analyze the impact of economic events on the retail sector.

License The RSXFS dataset is sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau and is considered Public Domain: Citation Requested. This means the data is freely available for use, but you must cite the source and acknowledge that the data was obtained from FRED. If you plan on using any copyrighted series from other data providers on FRED for commercial purposes, you would need to contact the original data owner for permission.

Data Fields: The dataset primarily contains two columns: - observation_date: The date of the monthly data point, recorded as the first day of each month from January 1992 to July 2025. - RSXFS: The value of advance retail sales in millions of dollars.

Citation and Provenance:
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Release: Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services
FRED Link: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RSXFS
Citation: U.S. Census Bureau, Advance Retail Sales: Retail Trade [RSXFS], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RSXFS, September 8, 2025.

In September 2025, China's online retail sales totaled approximately *** trillion yuan, reflecting a slight increase compared to the previous year. Online retail sales peak in November during China's Singles' Day Sales.

In 2023 and the first half of 2024, the largest property sale in the data center real estate market in Europe was DATA4 Paris-Saclay in Paris. In April 2023, Brookfield bought the ****** square meter property from AXA for an undisclosed price. The most expensive sale was Digital Frankfurt I. The valuation of the site was *** million U.S. dollars and Digital Core REIT obtained **** percent from Digital Realty.

Existing Home Sales in Ireland increased to 3574 Units in September from 3201 Units in August of 2025. This dataset provides - Ireland Existing Home Sales- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

United States - Total Business Sales was 1733841.00000 Mil. of $ in February of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Total Business Sales reached a record high of 1974148.00000 in December of 2024 and a record low of 478951.00000 in January of 1992. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Total Business Sales - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on November of 2025.