Retail apocalypse¶
Retail apocalypse.
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- Logistics Overreach
- In business expansion, a retailer opens stores faster than its distribution, hiring, and training systems can stock and staff them, so new locations starve old ones of inventory and managerial attention.
This sourceDocument retail overexpansion in which chains open stores faster than distribution and staffing can support (e.g. hhgregg 91→230 locations 2008–2015), cannibalizing existing locations and depressing same-store sales, with mass store closures and bankruptcies 2015–2019.
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CB Insights cites chains such as Beauty Brands and A'gaci failing after too-rapid or badly planned expansion, but gives no distribution, staffing or old-store starvation mechanism.
“is reported to have expanded its store footprint too rapidly, racking up unsustainable operating losses in the process.”
- In business expansion, a retailer opens stores faster than its distribution, hiring, and training systems can stock and staff them, so new locations starve old ones of inventory and managerial attention.
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