overstock
Example Sentences
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Santee came into existence in the mid-to-late 1970s for apparel businesses to sell their overstock items on the weekends.
From Los Angeles Times
As part of those plans, the company has been tweaking its manufacturing base to reduce dependence on Asian supply chains, allowing it to respond to changing trends quicker and limit overstocking.
Then, when demand slowed, customers would end up overstocked, prices would plunge, and memory makers would fall on hard times.
From Barron's
Several companies are building marketplaces that aggregate idle capacity — consumer GPUs, academic clusters, enterprise overstock — and resell it at a fraction of centralized data-center costs.
From MarketWatch
Products are donated by food industry partners from surplus stock due to overstocking or seasonal packaging.
From BBC
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