I thought retail, where businesses have to expend tons of capital on inventory (or get large lines of credit), is the definition of a low cash flow business. If

I thought retail, where businesses have to expend tons of capital on inventory (or get large lines of credit), is the definition of a low cash flow business. If the majority of your cash flow is entirely spoken for by debt servicing costs (aka, avoiding certain death by default), then it's not really a large free cash flow.