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35 days -- average out of stock duration per occurrence for retail products (2025)
The average duration a retail product stays out of stock per occurrence is 35 days.
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2025
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95
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IHL Group
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https://www.sitelucent.com/blog/why-digital-shelf-analytics-isnt-a-nice-to-have-its-your-foundation/ ↗
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Why Digital Shelf Analytics isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s your foundation. - Sitelucent
That’s how much global retailers lose every year to out-of-stock situations alone. Not to returns. Not to marketing that doesn’t land. Just to products that should have been available — but weren’t.
Now add to that: missing listings nobody flagged. Content that underperforms because it was never opt…
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retail products: 35 days average out of stock duration per occurrence. Source: IHL Group (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/average-out-of-stock-duration
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