Any delay will give Samsung time to clear the old inventory and help stores stock alternative products that are not on the ban list.

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Liquidity Services also offers a similar product for corporate clients, allowing them to turn old assets and inventory into revenue.

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For stores big and small, the constant battle to keep inventory at optimal levels is as old shopping itself.

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"The inventory in New York is basically old and tired, " he said.

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Many of them are running accounting or inventory management systems that are a decade old.

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Such activity creatively destroys many old bankable assets, such as real estate, storefronts and inventory, turning them into "legacy problems" -- albatrosses of land, concrete and steel.

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With the music buying experience evolving by the moment, old-fashioned record stores with leases, staff and high inventory costs (tying up millions in capital), needed a drastic overhaul.

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