The problem comes in when local store managers, assistant managers, and comanagers ignore what the system is telling them to do … which happens a whole lot more than you would think. The store I worked at was actually a brand new store when I started there. I even started a couple of weeks before the opening. That store was also replacing an older Walmart in the same town, and all the old, unsold inventory from that store was brought over to our store when it closed and we opened . That inventory was not accounted for. It was dumped in our back room and was completely off the books and out of the inventory management system. How they got away with doing that, I have no idea, but they did. They kept throwing that stuff on clearance aisles for the next year or so trying to sell it.
