"I think everybody everywhere loves their cars," said Stuart Leland, director of inventory and forecasting for the State Department of Transportation's bureau of policy and planning.
Snow shovel sales are down about two-thirds for the 7,200 hardware stores in the TruServ cooperative in Chicago, said Ray Winkel, its director of inventory management.
At the National Museum in Warsaw, Roman Olkowski, deputy director of the museum's inventory department, has for the last 15 years been documenting the 780,000 items in the permanent galleries.
Rance Reehl, director of the Baldwin County Association of Realtors, said inventories are at a high.
At its core, Home Inventory is a database management tool, which is why I asked Diane Hamilton (wife of developer Kevin Hamilton and managing director of Binary Formations) what Home Inventory provides that isn't readily available in a simple spreadsheet, or through more robust tools like Bento or FileMaker.
"There's an abundance of inventory on cable," said Bob Flood, director for national broadcast at Optimedia International U.S. in New York, part of the Zenith Optimedia Group.
"In a print world you had pretty much a limited amount of inventory — pages in a magazine," says Domenic Venuto, managing director of the online marketing firm Razorfish.
Kirk Henckels, the director of Stribling Private Brokerage, said that with little inventory, some brokers are pricing luxury apartments very aggressively as a way to generate competitive bids way over the asking price.
Sellers can adjust a set of variables — specifying a price floor, for instance, or ignoring competing stores with poor customer ratings — to come up with their own algorithmic "secret sauce," explained Marc Fournet, the director of business development at FillZ, an inventory and pricing service.
Says Managing Director Khetan: "Unproductive inventory of land is as bad as any other stock.
A brochure with information on the study was sent to the director of the living arrangements and a short inventory was attached.
