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Amid Supply Chain Woes, One Area of Retail Has a Product Glut — Resale

October 28, 2021

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While most retailers are struggling to deal with product delays and shortages this holiday season, one retail sector has a seemingly unlimited supply of goods – resale.

New research from recommerce platform Mercari found that American households are currently sitting on $580 billion of products they’re no longer using, the equivalent of 23.6 billion items. And increasingly, consumers are reselling those items rather than leaving them to gather dust or putting them out on the curb — particularly as a growing number of digital resale platforms make that process easier than ever before.

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