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1.6%
1.6% -- inventory shrinkage rate for retailers (2025)
Inventory shrinkage costs retailers an average of 1.6% of their total sales annually.
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1.6%
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2025
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60
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30
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45
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95
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biyopos.com
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Tier C
https://biyopos.com/blog/what-is-shrinkage-in-inventory/ ↗
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What Is Shrinkage in Inventory and How to Stop It
Ever get that nagging feeling that your inventory numbers just don't add up? You look at your records, and they say you have 100 units of a best-selling item. But when you go to the stockroom, you can only find 95. That missing five? That's inventory shrinkage in a nutshell.
It’s the gap between the…
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retailers: 1.6% inventory shrinkage rate. Source: biyopos.com (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/retail-shrinkage-average-sales-share
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