Each day there are more than 1 billion retail transactions in the U.S.  Retail stores using point-of-sale (POS) software record the UPC code for each product sold, date, time of day, total purchase amount, zip code of store and much more information.  When transaction data is aggregated, flat statistics turn into depleted inventory levels and market trends.  This data has tremendous value to manufacturers, marketers and industry analysts.  

Bean-Stream®, Inc. (BSI) has developed patent pending point of sale technology and procedures allowing Fortune 1000 managers to know what consumers are buying as they are buying.  In the hands of senior management, these powerful web based tools tighten inventory, reduce waste and indicate important new revenue generating trends.  In short, they increase control and boost revenue.  BSI has determined that the following multi-billion dollar industries are the most likely to embrace Bean-Stream’s real-time POS solutions:

              Motor Vehicle & Parts Dealers                 ($857 Billion)
              Consumer Food/Beverage Stores           ($472 Billion)
              Pharmaceuticals                                     ($400 Billion)
              Homeland Security                                 ($350 Billion)
              Bldg Mtrls/Gardening Equip & Supplies     ($297 Billion)
              Gas Stations/Convienience Stores          ($237 Billion)
              Apparel, Shoes And Accessories              ($167 Billion)
              Consumer Electronics Factory 2003-      ($100 Billion)
              Music/Books/DVD/Games                      ($  60 Billion)
              Toys                                                      ($  60 Billion)

The opportunity for penetration into these multi-billion dollar industries is immediate for the right, well-developed product. BSI has chosen as its first proving ground the $60 billion Entertainment industry due largely to management's extensive industry expertise.  The company will refine the technology and processes, prove viability and then roll out category-specific applications to the industries listed above, which are significantly under-serviced by their current POS monitoring technology and thus forced to analyze their most current sales with disparate, asynchronous tools and services.  BSI has an opportunity to revolutionize the way the Entertainment industry, and the entire Retail industry for that matter, uses real-time consumer research to increase efficiency and revenue.