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These include capital tied up in work-in-process or finished goods; the costs of facilities used; the risks of failure to sell; and price markdowns to dispose of products.
The contemporary equivalent of Bond Stores now has a much better chance of avoiding stock-outs of popular items and the inventory gluts that lead to costly markdowns.
Evaluating forced markdown costs is hard, for example, because one must separate markdowns made for promotional reasons from those made to liquidate stock that cannot be sold at full price.
Three types of costs were particularly high under the old model: forced markdowns to clear out unsold goods; lost sales from stock-outs; and the costs asso-ciated with holding inventory.
If all goes well, retailers allocate space to different goods efficiently, responding to shifts in consumer tastes (stocking the hits and discontinuing flops); setting pricing policies (markups and markdowns) to deal with both the direct cost of goods and the nature of consumer demand; and controlling inventory to reduce exposure to risk.