Example sentences for: inventories

How can you use “inventories” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 12 It has long been known that inventories at the macroeconomic level affect the depth and length of business cycles.

  • Retailers no longer needed to carry such large inventories, the risk of losing shipments was reduced, and delivery was more certain on a specified schedule.

  • This 8 percent charge against materials and production should be compared with the 24 percent of wholesale selling cost our survey reported as the average markdown needed to clear inventories.

  • These two facts mean that a certain amount of speculation is a normal and necessary part of the way the market works: It is inevitable and desirable that people should try to buy low and sell high, building up inventories when the price is perceived to be unusually low and running those inventories down when the price seems to be especially high.

  • Since the early 1980s, retailers have faced the growing costs associated with holding inventories of a wider variety of goods in a world increasingly characterized by industry overcapacity.


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