Hardware stores avoid dead eyewear inventory by buying around practical customer use and keeping duplicate depth behind proven positions.
Readers
Maintain useful power breadth for labels, measurements, instructions, and near work, then deepen the powers that repeatedly sell.
Sunglasses
Add depth around driving and outdoor-project seasons when local demand supports it.
Avoid slow duplication
Many near-identical frames or equal backup units behind every power create inventory without improving customer choice.
Use reorders as evidence
Let actual store movement replace the opening assumptions over time.
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