Reply #24: Yeah times are hard all over...but your post explains much

[Bluenorthwest]

All that talk of planograms and 'set dates' and such sound so spiffy, and I'm sure in lavish times it works out fine. But you know what I learned? That the way retail is run explains why they never have what I need, only what they are anticipating I will need next season. When I want warm socks, they are selling spring shorts. When I want shorts, they are selling 'back to school'. Planograms. Set dates. Explains it all, and frankly makes me hopeful that hard times might put some thought back into the pipe about what will sell when and where.
I think the rigid, national planning is a problem.