What's up with stores and Fender?

[Spectre Gunner]

The wonders of not quite in time inventory management methods. Low prices for customers, high profits for investors. Resiliency is low on the requirements list for MBAs.

. That's true but unlike the Japanese who invented "Just in time", these MBA's haven't implemented it correctly. For example, Toyota is smart enough to know that it's important to maintain a reasonable supply of critical components (parts that are vulnerable to shortages or spikes in prices like computer chips). Many other manufacturers ignored this and are now paying the price.

Many new car shortages are caused simply due to a lack of computer chips while Toyota kept a 3-4 month supply on hand and doing much better than most.

It's not a good idea to trade off resiliency by 100% in order to gain efficiency. You want to maintain some insurance.

 

[Sponson Thrisby]

Yep, I'm waiting on a U.S. Geddy Lee since December, and there are folks on TB waiting longer than that. But I locked in at the old price, so I'm hanging on. I've gone back to guitar for a while anyway, so that will keep my mind off it.

BTW, OP: London, Ontario is my old home town. I grew up in the Forest City.

 

[makanudo]

There's a whole lot more of E-comerce going on right now regardless of pandemic or not.

I'd bet most instrument transactions are made in the used market or directly from the manufacturer.