Sum of retail inventory discrepancies in Germany 2014-2023

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Evgenia Koptyug,
Nov 22, 2024

In 2023, the German retail industry recorded inventory discrepancies worth 4.8 billion euros. The most common cause for inventory discrepancies was consumer misbehavior, with 426 thousand cases of shoplifting being recorded by the German police in 2023.

Sum of inventory discrepancies in the retail industry in Germany from 2014 to 2023 (in billion euros)

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July 2024

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Germany

Survey time period

2014 to 2023

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Some figures were previously published by the source.

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