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On the program today this economy of hours sliced three different ways.

From American public media this is Marketplace.

In Los Angeles I'm Kyle Rizdal it is Wednesday today this one is the 16th day of August.

It is always to have you along everybody.

We are going to start today with a trifecta of sorts three different stories on three

different slices of this economy that will in eight or so minutes from now have delivered

a handy overview of where things stand at this precise economic moment and we begin with

the topic well known to regular listeners of this program stuff inventory is the technical

term and how much extra inventory retailers built up during the pandemic.

They have spent most of the past year those retailers have trying to get rid of all that

excess in very large part by offering discounts to move stuff off their shelves.

Well to that point this morning target said its inventories are 17% lower than they were

last year.

Thank you very much and as a result it is not going to be offering as many discounts.

But as Marketplace is just in hoe reports that does not necessarily mean the era of

Markdowns is behind us.

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