What’s going on? It could be that the Big Box retail stores are reducing their inventory because sales are decreasing and the retailers don’t want to risk having too much money tied up in inventory if sales should plummet even more. Most of the big box discount stores keep their prices low precisely by NOT having too much money tied up in inventory and using so-called “just in time” stocking. Its obvious that people don’t have the disposable income they had prior to October 2008. The U.S. economy never really recovered from the 2008-09 recession. Most things keep going up in price, particularly health insurance thanks to Obamacare. Things have been arranged to get worse once President Obama leaves office. Anyway deliberate reductions in inventory will mean that the shelves in the stores will get swept bare even faster should there be any panic buying.
They have drastically/intentionally reduced their inventory levels…
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