Here&#x27;s my anecdote.<p>It was late November after Target had been open for a while. I popped in to look for Christmas stuff and I was blown away by the quality. All of their decorations and trees were dramatically better in quality than the usual cheap garbage found at Canadian Tire and Walmart. I was super impressed. I was on my lunch break and I didn&#x27;t have a lot of time, so I decided I&#x27;d come back on a weekend to pick up some things.<p>I show up again next week in the first week of December with my friend, because he was looking to buy an artificial tree, and I was shocked to find out that they were basically sold out of all trees. They still had some decorations but not a lot. I couldn&#x27;t understand it. How on earth do you run out of Christmas trees in the first week of December? I asked this to a young guy who was working there and he just shook his head in disappointment. He&#x27;d clearly been hearing a lot of this.<p>Their logistics were completely messed up.