When levees break: How retailers are preparing for a riskier natural world

Retail executives are notorious for blaming their companies' problems on the weather. But a cold spring that keeps people from buying new shorts and skirts at the mall is quite a different thing from an extreme weather event that disrupts a store, supply chain or entire business. To take a severe case, consider women's apparel retailer A'gaci. In the year before A'gaci filed for Chapter 11 the first time...
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