There's also the question of "how do you arrange the products in order to maximize profit". There's also a great deal of machine/learning data mining that could

There's also the question of "how do you arrange the products in order to maximize profit". There's also a great deal of machine/learning data mining that could be involved in this: e.g. market/basket analysis ("people who bought product X, also bought product Y"). Safeway does this, Amazon does this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_analysis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_analysis That would make this an ideal project for people with machine learning/data mining experience, particularly from a retail/e-commerce background (Amazon, eBay, Wallmart.com or even a brick and mortar store chain such as Safeway).