Explain Moving from e-business to bricks and mortar- impact on cash

So basically they are moving into another sector of the business, from mail order to the actual department store and have spent cash flows in order to generate business and other cost pertaining the department structure of the business. But how does that relate to the relationship of net income and working operations etc. Just that they have less cash now because of the cost of generating new business?
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