How PetSmart Swallowed Chewy - and Proved the Doubters Wrong

Near the end of 2016, sales at PetSmart Inc. stores started sliding.

Executives at BC Partners, which had bought PetSmart in an $8 billion leveraged buyout in 2015, were scratching their heads. Operational improvements they made during their first year of ownership were so successful they had paid themselves a dividend. Why had same-store sales suddenly fallen over a period of only three weeks from flat to down almost 5%?

Read more of the Wall Street Journal's article here.