As a scout shop employee at a National Store, I find the comments about inventory troubling. The store I work at stocks about 90% of what is in the catalog. ( at least one each of the more expensive items) Rank advancement items are usually in stock unless they are back ordered from National Supply in North Carolina. We also have a network of 5 other stores in two states to find items that we don't have for our customers. Our turn around time if we don't have the item or enough stock is usually two days. As to the answer about ordering and keeping an appropriate amount of patches in stock, tha
