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===Innovations=== *Unlike similar retailers of the day, there were no leased departments in any of the Caldor stores, allowing managers the flexibility to rearrange a floor plan to suit the season or sales patterns.<ref name="breed1966" /> This allowed, for example, more space for outdoor goods during the summer and a larger toy department for Christmas.<ref name="cook1978"/> *Caldor's early and successful adoption of computerization of inventory, cost, and marketing control made it a model in the retail field. βBuyers, every Monday morning, have on their desks reports on the merchandise that was sold in their departments as of the previous Saturday night,β reported Bennett.<ref name="caldor1980"/> Indicative of the interest created by Caldor's computer programs was a visit by a group of Australian retailers who traveled in the late 1960s to the company's headquarters to observe their computer operations, which also handled the Caldor payroll.<ref name="WS1969"/>
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