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A lot of the time they are using global stats anyway that are pretty averaged out across hours as well. It is 6AM here, yes, and everyone is buying coffee on the way to work, but it is 9PM in Australia and people are buying drinks in bars. It is probably cola time somewhere else, like India.

I don't think that level of detail is needed for this anyway, though. The point is to make it clear a lot of these things are sold, which can then change the way you think. A programmer may never write an app related to baby food, then see how much baby food sells, then realize it could make sense.

Well in this case they say US retail and it does say real time hence one might believe that yes this is actually happening right now. Best Buy employees don't work at 3am unless it is BF.

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