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@M_V
I'm really suprised Halfords didn't go bust decades ago...
There was a store on the other side of the city that had been built with or had moved into a unit with considerably more warehouse space than the individual store required so every other store in the city had a space in there that they could keep excess stock.
There was nothing to secure a particular store's stock, it was just all just piled into the shelving with locations x-y allocated to this store, y-z allocated to that store and so on so 'borrowing' stock from other stores when yours was short was rife.
We had a van but not every store did so sometimes if you were tasked with going over to the warehouse you'd get a list of things to grab from other store's stock and drop off to them. I'm pretty sure a lot of times that the van made such a trip it also stopped off at the driver's home.