I said I would get a thing today at the store. I didn’t.
It is still today. Go get it.
EDIT: I went. (If you want to feel good, just do what you said you would do.)
Interesting side effects. This was a trip to the local Rite-Aid.
First: I went because I wanted to buy a simple, commodity product. They didn’t have it or at least it wasn’t immediately obvious to me that they had it. I bought a substitute. And got a small measure of hell for it when I got home.
Second: inventory is sparse in all departments. I went down one aisle and there was 20 feet of empty steel shelves. That’s expensive to leave commercial shelving empty in a big store. It’s 20 feet of things you will never sell. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t make, etc. Light bulbs? Pathetic selection and quantity.
Is Rite-Aid as a company suffering? Is this store in particular suffering? Is this only a temporary condition? Or is there a deeper problem? I must say that I hate going into this Rite-Aid and always have.
Time to do a bit of research. And maybe some tentative short-selling.
EDIT 2. The message boards say Rite-Aid (ticker RAD) is in trouble. The Rite-Aid website’s newsfeed is full of incoherent prose written by AI. People coming and going at the executive top level. A debt restructuring. Some sort of new mission for the company to be holistic or some bullshit.
Zombies are running Rite-Aid.
Isn’t this interesting is that reality laughs at a publicly-traded company? Well, not at a company as such, but at the people who volunteer to be part of a group that engages in commercial activities.
Lying (by the high-level executives and the Board of Directors) leads to collective ruin. It’s like the young Lieutenant, straight out of the Naval Academy, leading his platoon of Marines to disaster, ignoring the hard-earned, practical wisdom of his men. (Famously, newly-minted Marine officers don’t know how to operate a compass. Check out /r/usmc for a fun read.)
I’m sure there are people working at Rite-Aid who see what is happening and know how to prevent disaster. There’s not a damn thing they can do about it.
Get out, people. Save yourself. When zombies take over you must flee, lest you die or become a zombie yourself. If you’re optimizing to get the best severance package you’re optimizing for the wrong thing.