Most retailers mark down what feels stale — whatever's been on the floor longest or takes up the most space. The Inventory Surgeon approach starts somewhere different: with what has the largest recoverable dollar value.
Time is working against you.
You'll recover more here than in liquidation.
Don't mark down aggressively until you've tried bundling.
Don't let cash freed from liquidation flow back into problem categories.
The product has an audience and just needs a push.
The product has no remaining local demand — and every week it sits is a week of further depreciation.
A boutique carrying $18,000 in slow-moving apparel followed this sequence. Eight weeks later, $11,200 had converted back to working capital — without a store-wide sale.
Illustrative scenario; not a guarantee of results.
When a product has no local demand left, the Liquidation Marketplace connects you with vetted buyers and handles the logistics — so you recover cash instead of watching it depreciate.