I think Walmart is cutting back on goods because they can see down the road a couple of months, towards Christmas, that nobody will have discresionary money to spend on a ten dollar doll for their daughter. Thus if a Walmart store only sells one doll and has nine left on the shelf the ex's are thinking that they will have to take deep discounts to move those nine dolls. All a thousand products like that around the store and you can see that massive amounts of inventory will be sitting on the shelves after Christmas. So Walmart decided to cut bait with some suppliers in order to keep non-movable items off its shelves.
I think Walmart is cutting back on goods because they can see down the road a couple of months, towards Christmas, that nobody will have discresionary money to spend on a ten dollar doll for their daughter. Thus if a Walmart store only sells one doll and has nine left on the shelf the ex's are thinking that they will have to take deep discounts to move those nine dolls. All a thousand products like that around the store and you can see that massive amounts of inventory will be sitting on the shelves after Christmas. So Walmart decided to cut bait with some suppliers in order to keep non-movable items off its shelves.