Systems and methods for use in forecasting changes in sales

A system to forecast retail sales, comprising:

• a network transceiver coupled to communicate over a distributed computer network;
• a forecast control circuit;
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• a memory coupled to the forecast control circuit and storing computer instructions that when executed by the forecast control circuit cause the forecast control circuit to:
• access reservation data corresponding with people traveling during a future period of time via the network transceiver;
• access, by the forecast control circuit via the distributed computer network, additional data from multiple different and geographically distributed Internet of Things;
• access a first set of rules to be applied to the reservation data;
• apply the first set of rules to the reservation data to identify a first retail shopping facility corresponding to a forecasted geographic region corresponding to a subset of the reservation data;
• access a second set of rules and apply the second set of rules to identify a portion of the additional data obtained from the Internet of Things that are associated with the geographic region;
• access a third set of rules applied in forecasting sales;
• apply the third set of rules to identify historic actual sales of at least a first set of products during historic periods of time having historic reservation data that corresponds to the subset of the reservation data, and forecast expected sales, during the future period of time associated with the reservation data, of at least the first set of products, including at least expected sales of a first product, at the first retail shopping facility as a function of the subset of the reservation data, the portion of the additional data and the historic actual sales;
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• an inventory system communicatively coupled over the distributed computer network to access the forecasted expected sales during the future period of time and comprising memory storing inventory information of available inventory of the first retail shopping facility, wherein the inventory system receives the forecasted expected sales, accesses an inventory set of rules, applies the inventory set of rules and causes an adjustment to an order of the first product of the first set of products as a function of the expected sales and an adjustment of inventory of the first product at the first retail shopping facility corresponding to the future period of time.