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Dead stock

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

nounCommon term

In e-commerce, dead stock means: Products that have not sold for a long time and are unlikely to sell at their normal price, taking up warehouse space and money.

In Turkish: ölü stok, hareketsiz stok, satılmayan stok

How it is used

Used by buyers, finance and warehouse teams. Stores try to clear, sell off, bundle or donate dead stock, and avoid it with better forecasting. Slow-moving stock is the step before it.

Example sentences

  1. We have almost 2,000 units of dead stock from last year's phone cases.

  2. Bundling dead stock with best-sellers helped us clear the warehouse.

Common collocations

  • clear dead stock
  • dead stock items
  • slow-moving stock
  • write off stock
  • inventory turnoverA measure of how many times a business sells and replaces its stock in a period, usually cost of goods sold divided by average inventory value.
  • markdownA permanent or long-term cut in a product's selling price, usually to clear slow-selling or end-of-season stock.
  • product bundleTwo or more products sold together as one offer, usually at a lower price than buying each of them separately.
  • inventoryAll the products a business has available to sell, and the records that show how many of each item are in stock and where.

More terms: Inventory and Stock

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