Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing and Logistics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing and Logistics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Diane Mollenkopf
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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. Diane Mollenkopf is associate professor of marketing and logistics at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
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