The BBB Conundrum

摘要

For the hundreds of vendors who have done business with it, Bed Bath & Beyond, sadly, has turned into the punchline for an old Henny Youngman gag: "Can't live with them...can't live without them." As the big box retailer - still a huge seller of the industry's products - twists and turns in its latest freefall, the fate of billions of dollars of business for suppliers in the industry - and competing retailers who would love to pick up all that market share - rests in its outcome.