The strategy required new manufacturing methods and new information systems. Tasty's existing systems were technically challenged, inflexible, and posed serious compliance and other business risks. Many key processes were traditional and heavily manual, and the company did not have timely information for tracking manufacturing outputs and warehouse shipments. Tasty had to physically count all the items in its warehouse every day. Even so, inventory information was still inaccurate and out of date. Shipments were missed, and excess inventory had to be sold at a discount at bakery thrift store. Tasty's market share and sales dropped while operating costs rise.