With unsold inventory piling up throughout the technology industry, price-cutting looks likely to spread.
In 2010, inventory was up 8% by early March, and up 15% by the end of March.
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Additionally, total housing inventory is up, tending to push prices down as well.
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The National Association of Realtors reports that inventory is up 9.6%.
The company said the shortfall reflects a Q4 inventory build up.
As most people know the moment the iPhone 5 was launched Samsung started deep discounts of the Galaxy S3 to try to clear inventory stacking up on shelves.
Apple's continued attention to channel management helped it take full advantage of the strong quarter to further close the gap with Samsung, which saw some inventory build up for its smartphone range.
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Back-to-school sales of netbooks have also been slower than expected, leading to inventory build-up, he adds.
Nonetheless, I think we can see a bit of a slowdown in inventory decline picking up.
Or could it have been the consequence of an inadvertent inventory mix-up or other lower-level action?
Adler spent three frantic years building his inventory to keep up with all the orders.
Roger Polark, Walgreen's chief financial officer, says that the inventory run-up has since been worked off.
Additionally, due to a decrease in inventory step-up, GAAP gross margins saw a slight increase this quarter.
So far in 2013, even with the slight decline last week (probably noise), inventory is already up 3.0%.
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Removing the inventory build-up from the reported numbers, the real growth rate was an even more anemic 1.5%.
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Marketers start pressing on the breaks even before the recession is officially announced, as inventory starts piling up.
Growing demand and limited inventory is propping up another key aspect of the housing market as well: builder confidence.
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During peak season, from June to March, Purkayastha drives to the airport two or three times a week to pick up inventory.
He challenged the shop to build up inventory of all 40 pieces.
And some of the "inventory" built up during the bubble is unlivable.
Historically, Q3 has been the strongest quarter for Broadcom as its customers build up inventory to meet the demand during the holiday season.
Right now there are still positive numbers in transportation, but manufacturing is starting to weaken as inventory rebuilding catches up and surpasses current demand.
The third quarter has historically been the strongest quarter for Broadcom as its customers build up inventory to meet demand during the holiday season.
He kept workers busy building inventory that piled up in warehouses.
"We have set up inventory and feel everything is in place for a real boom in sales, " said Sam Landy, president of UMH Properties Inc.
Sunglass Hut hung 5-foot-by-7-foot Ralph Lauren banners in its stores and beefed up inventory of Lauren products by an initial 50% before the promotion got under way.
Mr. McMurtry, who built his inventory by buying up the stock of secondhand bookstores and personal collections around the country, said he also has selected 100 books of special interest to him for individual auction.
Even Clear Channel is keeping Google on a tight leash, initially allowing the company access to less than 5% of its total ad inventory and drawing up what essentially amounts to a black list of existing advertisers that Google is prohibited from contacting.
So in September, when U.S. car sales slowed and Chrysler's inventory began piling up on dealer lots, rather than keeping the factories humming and then boosting discounts to move the excess vehicles--a strategy that drove Chrysler into deep financial trouble in 2006 and at other times in its history--Nardelli decided to shut down six factories until the glut disappeared.
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