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Inventory Glut on Store Shelves and at Frozen Ports
Just the way bad weather backs up the airlines, a decline in consumer spending leaves inventories in place and backs up supply lines. One sign of the effort to get things moving is that post-Christmas sales this year happened before Christmas.
Just the way bad weather backs up the airlines, a decline in consumer spending leaves inventories in place and backs up supply lines. One sign of the effort to get things moving is that post-Christmas sales this year happened before Christmas. Diane Mollenkopf is associate professor of marketing and logistics at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.