6.15.2009

retail prognosis

Borders is going to eat it.

The stock levels of the local box are horribly depleted and the store had even fewer employees than usual- which is saying something, given their traditionally spartan staffing levels.

The SF section was running about half its usual stock levels, and they'd tried to camouflage it by shrinking it down to one aisle from three and facing out a ton of stuff to make the expanded romance section look populated.

Their DVDs were even more picked over.

When a retail chain's stock starts looking obviously picked over, the writing is on the wall.

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