Originally Posted by
simla
The nationwide rollout in early 2010 is indeed a question in the air, but has been for a while. On the other hand, we appear to have detected that it did indeed spread to other stores, so there was evidently some sort of rollout. Further, we might reasonably assume that the withdrawal at the end of winter on exactly the last Friday in March was a planned move, and not a response to sales levels. So, one fair reading of this surely is that the rollout got the go-ahead, but only proceeded on a limited basis in the time available. If so, then isn't logistical constraint the more likely problem? That could be a range of things, from busy factory(s) to snow blocking roads across the continent, to Costco being too busy to look at this product in time.