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Their execution was poor. Start by depleting SF and then look elsewhere? Short-sighted at best. They should have moved quickly before Best Buy/Costco implement
by JakeFratelli 14y ago
Their execution was poor. Start by depleting SF and then look elsewhere? Short-sighted at best.
They should have moved quickly before Best Buy/Costco implemented constraints that should have been anticipated. During one weekend, via train or one-way flights, employees could have been mobilized to cities across the US. Utilizing USPS flat rate boxes or low-cost equivalent, hard drives could have been shipped back to HQ en masse. Three days, disaster is over.
I give them a C- on execution.
- rtkwe 14y agoThat's predicated on them being able to spare many employees just for drive sourcing, which as a relatively small company they probably couldn't. They went with the lower cost stop gap at first, if the shortage hadn't lasted as long they would have been better off with how they did it.
- unreal37 14y agoYeah sure. In a weekend they could have purchased 1500 hard drives when there is a shortage and stores are limiting them to 2? I would challenge you to go to retail stores in a single day under those conditions and buy 25.