Pop-up Stores

a variety of inventory types and the concept of capacity to inventory, the following discussion is about the treating a retail store's inventory of store locations.

Toys-R-Us is using more 'pop-up' stores that it opens in late October and shut them down in early January. The purpose of this is to put capacity, i.e. increase the inventory of stores open, in place for their busy time, the holiday season.

Part of this discussion is to expand on the pros and cons of this strategy.

B. The second part is to discuss the following. Note these two items are not mutually exclusive and there will be some overlaps.

1. risks

2. where to put the capacity

3. what to do if a store does not perform

4. what inventory do you put in stores

5. inventory of employees - how do you train part-time/temp employees quickly

6. other