and they want them all connected to have a more effective company. Since each store has been working independently their customer service and communication between stores has been very poor. They also have no way of sharing customers information between locations or share their inventory. It is because of this that the implementation of a WAN will be be soon. Once they achieve this they will be able to allow their customers to view there informaiton over the network. This will also help with their communciation problems between all four locations.