Comments on: Why is Borders going bankrupt?

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:15:16 +0000

Yeah, that does sound crazy. Perhaps that average was skewed by the number of orders that simply couldn’t be met from the warehouse’s inventory without tracking down copies from other retail locations.

By: David Foster

David Foster — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:54:31 +0000

It might take a while to notice a stockout of a particular SKU. The linked article, though, seemed to imply that the 16 weeks was the time from the store reordering it (from the central warehouse) to the time of receipt by the store.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:46:56 +0000

In the pre-computer era, I can imagine it taking a Borders store sixteen weeks to notice a stockout of one of their thousands of SKUs — which are, of course, reshelved by random customers. In this day and age though? Not an option.

By: David Foster

David Foster — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:44:45 +0000

If it is really taking sixteen weeks to fill in-stock orders from their own warehouse, that’s pretty bad. They should have been able to do better than that in the pre-computer, pre-airplane era.