Why Can't L.L. Bean Keep the Darn Duck Boots in Stock?
Standards? Stubbornness? PR?
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L.L. Bean struggled to keep up with demand for its popular duck boots last holiday season and wound up with 100,000 back-ordered pairs and no way to make them fast enough. Since then, the Maine shoemaker has shored up its manufacturing operations so it wouldn't happen again.
It's happening again.