unsold goods
Merchandise without buyers
Unsold goods are products that remain in inventory after failing to find buyers.
The term appears in retail, manufacturing, and economic contexts: The warehouse was full of unsold goods from last season.
Unsold goods may be discounted, returned to suppliers, donated, or written off as losses.
- inventoryCatalog of held assets
- surplusAmount exceeding requirement
- clearancePermitted passage or approval
- end of seasonWhen a period concludes
- markdownReduction in retail price
overstock · deadstock · warehouse · shelves · back room · discount · liquidation · returns · remnants · closeout · backlog · excess · stagnant · dusty · bargain · fire sale · going out of business · wholesale
- dead stocksurplus stock, excess inventory, overstock, clearance items, shelf warmers
- unsellablesunmarketable, deadstock, rejects, remainders, returns
- bargain goodscloseout, clearance, liquidation, markdown, discounts
- surplus termssurplus, excess, glut, oversupply, overflow