I feel bad for the employees of Fuller who as far as I know don't deserve what is going on, but being in business means taking care of business and managing your money. I don't know what is going on at Fuller's, but if I were forced to make an educated guess I would say cash flow problems resulting in over extended credit with vendors and the resultant c.o.d. terms from suppliers. If you don't have the cash, you don't get the product, if you don't get the product, you can't deliver it to your customers. If you can't deliver to your customers, they leave you for someone else who can take care of you.
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