The Best Way to Sell Excess Inventory

The Best Way to Sell Excess Inventory

To remain competitive in today’s fickle retail environment, you need to stay ahead of the times—this includes finding new and better ways to handle returned and excess inventory. Traditional methods for selling liquidation inventory are becoming increasingly outdated; there is…

Aug 01 2017 · 3 min read

What to Look for in a B2B Liquidation Marketplace
What to Look for in a B2B Liquidation Marketplace

Relaxed return policies build customer loyalty, but on the flipside, drive a culture of impulse buying: consumers know they can…

Apr 28 2017 · 2 min read

Turn Retail Returns into a Money-Making Opportunity
Turn Retail Returns into a Money-Making Opportunity

‘Tis the season of returns. For retailers, this is the stuff post-holiday nightmares are made of. For resourceful resellers, however,…

Jan 06 2016 · 2 min read

Creating an Impactful Solution for Liquidation of Excess Inventory
Creating an Impactful Solution for Liquidation of Excess Inventory

Consider this: in 2014 consumers returned a record $284 billion worth of merchandise to retailers. That’s a huge number (about…

Jan 28 2015 · 2 min read

Small Resellers are Starving for your Inventory
Small Resellers are Starving for your Inventory

I found a recent article on Ina Steiner’s eCommercebytes blog very interesting.  She wrote about a survey they ran among their…

Sep 27 2013 · 2 min read

Flea Market History: An Interesting Past
Flea Market History: An Interesting Past

Flea markets are a great way that many of B-Stock’s buyers make their living.  Buying liquidation inventory from our various…

Jul 26 2013 · 4 min read

The Reshaping of Retail in the Internet Age and its Impact on Inventory Liquidation
The Reshaping of Retail in the Internet Age and its Impact on Inventory Liquidation

This Wall St. Journal blog post of April 29, 2013, applies an interesting analogy to today’s brick-and-mortar stores in the…

May 30 2013 · 3 min read

Inventory Management is Key to Retail Profitability
Inventory Management is Key to Retail Profitability

I came across two interesting articles in the past few days that shine a light on the importance of managing…

Dec 26 2012 · 2 min read

CFO’s are looking for efficiencies through technology
CFO’s are looking for efficiencies through technology

Great article today in the Wall Street Journal talking about how CFO’s are becoming more aggressive about spending on technology…

Feb 27 2012 · 2 min read

Consumer electronics return rates on the rise
Consumer electronics return rates on the rise

An interesting new study by Accenture looking at the rising return rates in the consumer electronics business. They estimate that…

Dec 14 2011 · 2 min read

Inventory Matters! – Including overstock and excess inventory
Inventory Matters! – Including overstock and excess inventory

Several months back Jim Cramer from Mad Money published a piece on the importance of inventory levels in predicting economic…

Dec 08 2011 · 2 min read

Overstock and excess inventory & “marketing energy”
Overstock and excess inventory & “marketing energy”

Overstock inventory ready for liquidation contains what I like to think of as “marketing energy”. This is a geeky analogy…

Oct 25 2011 · 5 min read