there is a worse growing trend in major retailers, target excluded. the store management get paid performance bonuses based on inventory turns. wal-mart’s long standing goal has been to turn the inventory once per month, or sell it before they have to pay for it. the problem with these “performance” based bonuses, is that it very easy to manipulate the numbers, by reducing stock and not reordering. this of course is counter productive, but for the few months to a year this is going on the numbers look great. i see this trend with kmart, napa distribution centers, o’reily’s, autozone, wal-mart, walgreens, etc. it is however up to the share holders of these corporations to enact rules to prevent this from happening.

Well, I’ve noticed that the Walmarts I go to have no vehicles, no new figures, and peg warming comics. Target has some new stuff. But even TRU doesn’t seem to have alot of stuff.