Tuesday, November 26, 2024

The Reality of the Situation - A Christmas Miracle in Watch Town?

Shamelessly borrowed from the World-Wide Infoweb

As we move closer to the holiday season, a few undeniable truths are becoming more and more apparent. First and foremost? Sales in Watch Town suck. There's really no nice way to put it. Lots of exports going out, but as anyone who's been in the game a minute or two will tell you, exports do not equal sales. So as 100s of SKUs are piling up in various warehouses around the world, the problem of too much stock on hand is going hand in hand with supply chain issues. It's an interesting situation that started with the first domino falling - over production. Ironically, this is not a new thing. It seems that the CEOs of Watch Town still prefer their own bath water to to pretty much any other beverage.

Once it became clear that the supply was far exceeding the already weak demand, the same folks who couldn't have their teams build enough soon-to-be grey market watches then slashed or completely canceled their supply orders. Which, in turn, led the suppliers to make many of their workers redundant. This, in turn, put the squeeze on smaller brands that were living in Reality (a more modest, yet stable municipality that is Watch Town adjacent). This, in turn, meant that although they were selling, they could not fulfill the orders that they were receiving. 

And so here we are - counting down for the holidays, and the Grinch is firmly ensconced under the Christmas Tree.

But maybe, just maybe there's a Festivus Miracle waiting!

Just kidding, that's about as likely as an Arnault offspring being replaced by someone who actually has experience...

Happy Holidays!

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