The business appears to have been running out of working capital.
But business appears to be off at places where merchandise is similar to what customers can already find in their homes.
Big business so far appears, on the whole, rather cheerful about what it sees.
But business, and the softening effects of time, appear to have priority.
By April 1602 the business appears to have been in financial difficulty.
As a result, businesses appear to be cutting their spending.
It's nearly ten in the morning, but no businesses appear to be open at all.
"The whole food-craving business appears to be much more cultural, but people don't believe it," she said.
And businesses don't appear to have stopped collecting data on consumers.
The business appears to have shut down in the late 1980s.