Over & Out - Retail's Inventory Distortion Matrix 2022: The Numbers Behind a $1.9 Trillion Issue - ResearchAndMarkets.com

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Over & Out - Retail's Inventory Distortion Matrix - 2022" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The publisher has been tracking the cost of overstocks and out-of-stocks for over 15 years down to the segment and region level. Instead of relying just on what retailers tell us their systems say, the publisher interviews consumers to see what is really happening.

How often are they leaving the stores without purchasing something they intended to buy? Depending on the segment, this can be as high as 1 in 4 items. This model breaks down those reasons and assigns a loss figure to those individual retailers involved.

While the industry has made significant progress in some areas, the problem continues to grow as retail has grown around the world. While in North America and Western Europe, major strides have been made in performance, worldwide the problem of inventory distortion has only grown to a $1.9 Trillion issue around the world.

The publisher's Over & Out - Retail's Inventory Distortion Matrix tracks these costs by segment around world showing historical changes and where improvements have been made and where challenges still exist. This is designed for retailers to see where the big problems are to benchmark themselves against their competition as well as for vendors that are looking that offer solutions to attack these issues. Because of the granularity of the data, vendors can target the true costs by segment and reasons.

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