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> Costco, Target and Safeway have to pay to maintain inventory in their stores, and thus have 'skin in the game'. Can you clarify this? No major retailer pays

• mschuster91 7y ago
  Of course the retailers pay for all the stuff they buy, they only have rather large payment windows - I've seen anything from 90 to 180 days. This is also what creates a problem for retailers once the public learns that they are struggling - vendors either shrink their gaps or demand upfront payments for new goods, leading to a further financial crunch. This is in Germany shown with the Galeria Karstadt/Kaufhof chain that has had its faie share of "crunches" over the last years.