Bike Retailer is a source for industry news, if you don't already check it out. I was on there reading about Ski Market when I realized some of the articles would be pertinent here.

Retailer Shares Lessons from Closure
http://www.bicycleretailer.com/news/...tail/3537.html

Ski Market (they were big in the area)
http://www.bicycleretailer.com/news/...tail/3577.html

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