Customer Profile:
A national retailer with more than 1000+ retail locations
Solution:
ATI provides a competitive buy-out offer of all aged inventory.
Outcomes:
- Retailer recovers value from unsellable stock
- Shelf space freed to restock with better selling items
- Retailers hits sales and forecast goals
Challenge
A national retail chain with over 1,000 locations was facing mounting challenges with aged, surplus, and end-of-life (EOL) inventory clogging its distribution centers and store shelves. These legacy products were tying up capital, consuming valuable warehouse space, and negatively affecting inventory turns. The company’s merchandising team struggled to meet sales and forecast targets while carrying unsellable or slow-moving stock — a growing concern as new product lines approached seasonal rollout deadlines. Without an efficient liquidation or recovery plan, the retailer risked write-offs and diminished profitability across multiple categories.
Solution
Advanced Technologies International (ATI) engaged with the retailer’s asset recovery and purchasing teams to design a strategic buyout solution for all aged and surplus inventory. Leveraging ATI’s nationwide ITAD and resale network, the team performed a comprehensive audit of the stock, categorized items by recoverable market value, and extended a competitive bulk purchase offer that immediately removed the aging inventory from the retailer’s books.
ATI managed all logistics, including pickup coordination, asset tracking, and data reporting, ensuring full transparency throughout the process. This allowed the retailer to focus on replenishing high-velocity items while ATI handled resale and redistribution through its established remarketing channels.
Outcome
Through ATI’s program, the retailer successfully recovered value from previously unsellable stock, avoided additional write-offs, and freed critical shelf and warehouse space to make room for faster-moving, higher-margin items. The initiative directly contributed to the company meeting its quarterly sales and forecast goals, improved inventory efficiency, and reinforced a sustainable approach to end-of-life product management.
By combining financial recovery with operational relief, ATI proved once again that strategic secondary-market partnerships can turn excess inventory into opportunity — helping national retailers stay lean, profitable, and positioned for growth.
