In U.S. dollars, how much inventory is in one WalMart store at any given time?
Retail or wholesale price is fine.
Dunno about a Walmart but I can extrapolate from where I work. Assuming roughtly the same average density of product in $/sq ft, about $30-40 million@retail. Thats a lowball estimate. When you are talking about places that do $100K+ per day they have ALOT of stock onhand. Product density is also a large factor, the pharmacy could easily have millions in just about 1,000 sq ft. Things like garden centers much lower maybe $200K in 5,000-6000 sq ft.
Christmas is a whole nuther nightmare. I don’t know enough about multi-department retail product flow models for much of a good guess on overstock for holiday shopping but it would not shock me to hear its over double that amount.
According to Wal-Mart’s 2002 Annual Report the 4,414 stores worldwide held inventories worth $22,749,000,000. That works out about $5,000,000 per store but probably more for big US stores. Back in 1996 the figure was about $5,500,000.
Target’s Annual Report reveals that they have 161,000,000 square feet of retail space and inventory of $4,449,000,000 or stock on hand worth $27.63 per square foot. They had 1381 stores for an average inventory of $3,221,578.
Annual report’s do not (and REALLY should not - shades of Worldcom!) value inventory at retail. Just how one values retail inventory for tax, regulatory, and investor-relations is rather complex.
Quite true, in both instances the stock is valued at replacement cost.