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  2. Shrinkage (accounting) - Wikipedia

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    High shrinkage can adversely affect a retailer's profit. [2] In 2008, the retail industry in the United States experienced shrinkage rates of around 1.52% of sales. [3] During the same year, retailers in Europe and Asia Pacific reported average shrinkage of about 1.27% and 1.20% of sales, respectively. [4]

  3. The retail industry's biggest problem is about to become a ...

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    In the most recent quarter, Target estimated it would lose $500 million in profits this year to shrinkage. "Worsening shrink rates are putting significant pressure on our financial results ...

  4. Retail loss prevention - Wikipedia

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    Items that are unaccounted for compared to what the inventory system believes the store should have are losses or "shrink". Shrink is caused by operational errors, internal theft, and external theft. Retail loss prevention is responsible for identifying these causes and following up with training, preventing, investigating, responding to and ...

  5. Carrying cost - Wikipedia

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    In marketing, carrying cost, carrying cost of inventory or holding cost refers to the total cost of holding inventory.This includes warehousing costs such as rent, utilities and salaries, financial costs such as opportunity cost, and inventory costs related to perishability, shrinkage, and insurance. [1]

  6. The latest survey from the NRF shows that “shrink” overall has held steady over the last five years, fluctuating between 1.3% and 1.6%, but some retailers are seeing much higher shrink rates ...

  7. Trump tariffs would shrink the federal deficit, but also the ...

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    It estimated that the increase in revenue would help shrink the federal budget deficit by $2.7 trillion from fiscal years 2025 to 2034, after accounting for economic impacts and retaliation from ...

  8. Tendency of the rate of profit to fall - Wikipedia

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    David Ricardo, interpreting Adam Smith's falling rate of profit theory to be that increased competition drives down the average rate of profit, argued that competition could only level out differences in profit rates on investments in production, but not lower the general profit rate (the grand-average profit rate) as a whole. [35]

  9. Shrinkage - Wikipedia

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    Shrinkage (accounting), loss of product inventory due to theft, damage, spoilage, etc. Shrinkage defect or shrinkage void, a casting defect caused by metal solidifying from the outside inward; Shrinkage (statistics), a technique to improve an estimator; Shrinkage (slang)