No wheat? Even imported Italian pasta is made from American Durum wheat. (Yes Italian pasta companies import US wheat, make pasta from it and then sell it as Italian.)
you don't have meetings every day but graphs with each day certainly are generated in something like power pi and used in meetings at least in places I have been and they are companies. From my experience NO company waits an entire quarter to look at metrics. Heck they spend all quarter practically getting the required quarterly reports that the public sees. You would have to be crazy to not be looking at things a few times for every time public disclosures go out.
Retail absolutely looks at daily sales year vs year, referenced to both Julian Dates and Gregorian Dates. They use the data to set staffing levels and to decide when to have sales between holidays.