Rural stores avoid dead eyewear inventory by buying for practical use first and letting local reorders determine depth.
Readers
Keep useful power breadth for labels, instructions, and paperwork, but do not hold equal duplicates behind every power.
Sunglasses
Use outdoor-work and driving demand to guide depth. Add seasonal inventory before proven peaks and reduce it afterward.
Limit slow duplicates
If a frame style or power sits through multiple service cycles, cut duplicate depth before increasing overall inventory.
Use local store history
Rural markets vary. Reorders and customer requests should replace generic opening assumptions over time.
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