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By the Numbers: Inventory and Donuts

IF YOU WERE to turn the average U.S. jeweler’s inventory into a doughnut, here’s how it would look — stale and mostly inedible. Fresh inventory and fast sellers would account for just a third of all stock.?Remember that $100 of inventory should produce at least $100 of gross profit a year, so inventory that isn’t selling is costing you 100 percent in interest a year.

This story is from the December 2008 edition of INSTORE.

David Brown

David Brown is the president of Edge Retail Academy, a leading jewelry business consulting and data aggregation firm that provides expert business improvement plans to help with all facets of your business, including improved financials, healthier inventory, sales growth, increased staff performance, recruiting and retirement/succession planning, all custom-tailored to your store’s needs. They offer Edge Pulse to better understand critical sales and inventory data, to improve business profitability, benchmark your store against 1,200-plus other Edge Users, and ensure you stay on top of market trends with their $3 billion-plus of industry sales data. Contact (877) 569.8657, ext. 001, Inquiries@EdgeRetailAcademy.com or EdgeRetailAcademy.com.