Thus follows the inevitable spiral of stores who tried to be odd-lots outlets and got too big for their britches, failing to realize that odd-lot, irregular, factory second, and closeout merchandise is actually really hard to repeatably and reliably source over the long term, especially when you need to stock it nationwide at zillions of locations.
All of these retailers can’t help themselves from pivoting to stocking pretty much exclusively cheapshit mass market products instead, vainly trying to turn themselves into little Walmarts and just selling the same shit everyone else already has. The problem with that is, you inevitably subsequently just get crushed by Walmart. Because Walmart is better at being Walmart than anybody.
Thus follows the inevitable spiral of stores who tried to be odd-lots outlets and got too big for their britches, failing to realize that odd-lot, irregular, factory second, and closeout merchandise is actually really hard to repeatably and reliably source over the long term, especially when you need to stock it nationwide at zillions of locations.
All of these retailers can’t help themselves from pivoting to stocking pretty much exclusively cheapshit mass market products instead, vainly trying to turn themselves into little Walmarts and just selling the same shit everyone else already has. The problem with that is, you inevitably subsequently just get crushed by Walmart. Because Walmart is better at being Walmart than anybody.