(of a retailer) to reduce the amount of stock held or cease to stock certain products
destock in Retail
(distɒk)
Word forms: (present) destocks, (past) destocked, (perfect) destocked, (progressive) destocking
verb (transitive) (intransitive)
(Retail: Merchandising)
To destock is to reduce the amount of stock held or to stop holding stock certain products.
Active destocking refers to an active decision to reduce the inventory to sales ratio of a company.
Retailers reduced their inventories as consumers tightened their belts and the manufacturingsector responded by destocking; in other words, they have reduced their output.
To destock is to reduce the amount of stock held or to stop holding stock certain products.