America may be on the cusp of an inventory problem. Research from the Wall Street Journal says the compounding excess of apparel and other stock is filling up US warehouses faster than goods are being sold. As supply chains continue to hinder deliveries, companies are stockpiling to avoid the perils of shipping bottlenecks, which has seen...
4 Aug 2022
Shifts in consumer behaviour are difficult to forecast, with many largescale retailers facing excess inventory this season. As shoppers shifted from buying into comfortable fashion categories that were high in demand during lockdowns, retailers needed to have invested into occasionwear as much as casualwear, less on homeware and perhaps more on...
8 Jun 2022
The fashion industry clearly has a problem with overproduction. In March, fast fashion powerhouse H&M reported to be sitting on a pile of no less than 4.3 billion US dollars worth of unsold inventory. A few months later, UK luxury label Burberry received backlash for reportedly destroying finished products worth 28.6 million pounds...
12 Dec 2018
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