Unreliable internet. A retail company may decide that the best place to put up a new branch is coincidentally (though there might be a correlation) at the edge

Unreliable internet. A retail company may decide that the best place to put up a new branch is coincidentally (though there might be a correlation) at the edge of what the available ISPs currently cover. They might have to make a deal to get an ISP to extend their area to where the store is going to be. However, because of lack of competing ISP options on the part of the retailer, and the lack of clients in the retailer's area on the part of the ISP, that service is probably not going to be all that reliable. Also, that retail company may experience a big rise in sales after a natural disaster occurs, when communications (phone/cell/internet) are mostly down for the area. One tends not to think about stuff like that until it happens at least once. It's very important for the ERP/POS systems to be as operational as possible even when the internet is down.