[Info-vax] OT: Demise of Target in Canada

[Neil Rieck]

On Sunday, January 31, 2016 at 4:44:58 PM UTC-5, JF Mezei wrote:
> A few years ago, Target USA decided to setup shop in Canada. Instead of
> buying the existing Zellers business from Hudsons Bay Corp, it only
> bought the leases to stores and built its operations from scratch (not
> even bringing in systems from its existing US operations).
> 
> 
> The business failed spectacularly with constant stream of complaints of
> unstocked shelves ins stores turning away customers. Considering that
> Target in USA has a very good reputation on that aspect, people were
> surprised.
> 
> 
> http://www.canadianbusiness.com/the-last-days-of-target-canada/
> 
> The above article is worth a read in a "how to not fail" scenario that
> could happen to any company.  It does include the 3 letters S A P.
> 
> 
> 
> I am amazed that SAP is still in business and still being deployed
> considering the number of spectacular failures caused by the move to its
> software.

Here is a related story about the failure of Target in Canada.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/billion-dollar-failures-how-bad-decisions-and-poor-it-killed-target-canada

Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.