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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 8588314" data-attributes="member: 3400">Based on my retail experience in the 1990s, a store might have a deal with their distributor to return items for credit if they aren't selling within a time limit. A well-run store would be shipping stuff that wasn't selling pretty aggressively to avoid being stuck with a product that's unlikely to sell and getting increasingly less likely to sell every month. That was particularly important at the software store I worked at and it's one of the reasons it struggled whenever it didn't have someone actively sending back inventory.I'm not so sure of that. A publisher with a full warehouse means their product isn't out for distribution and is generating inventory costs. It would have to be known to be brand new releases to be seen as a positive. But even then, you'd expect it to be shipping, not sitting.The hit was probably because the distributors, in turn, were having trouble with returns to TSR. The retailer you know was probably a further branch along the Tree of Woe here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 8588314, member: 3400"] Based on my retail experience in the 1990s, a store might have a deal with their [B]distributor[/B] to return items for credit if they aren't selling within a time limit. A well-run store would be shipping stuff that wasn't selling pretty aggressively to avoid being stuck with a product that's unlikely to sell and getting increasingly less likely to sell every month. That was particularly important at the software store I worked at and it's one of the reasons it struggled whenever it didn't have someone actively sending back inventory. I'm not so sure of that. A publisher with a full warehouse means their product isn't out for distribution and is generating inventory costs. It would have to be known to be brand new releases to be seen as a positive. But even then, you'd expect it to be shipping, not sitting. The hit was probably because the distributors, in turn, were having trouble with returns to TSR. The retailer you know was probably a further branch along the Tree of Woe here. [/QUOTE]

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