A typical At Home store is about 105,000 square feet and carries over 50,000 different products.
It is staffed by roughly 32 people.
That is one employee for every 3,270 square feet, and about 1,560 items per person. A store director, a store manager, an inventory control manager, and a general staff the company itself describes as averaging 30 employees.
For comparison, a full-size supermarket is a third the size and runs on several times the headcount.
The model produced $1.74 billion of sales and $492.9 million of store-level profit in its last public year.
Four years later the company filed for bankruptcy. And almost nobody had to be told about the store closings, for a reason buried in federal labor law.