The deli has a general store inventory, from flannel shirts to shoelaces to telephone cords.

The system automatically searches store inventories across the country to determine whether the item is available.

Infocom had a successful marketing approach that kept all their games in store inventories for years.

Paskalis had organized the theft of $1 million in store inventory before setting it on fire to cover his tracks.

With SBT, product deliveries are based on store inventory of individual items.

Now he's about to broaden that approach by posting entire store inventories at his site and selling them to the highest bidder.

The average dollar value of Staples's store inventory is the lowest in the industry.

Today, computers help shape store inventories to local markets; instant databases show what products move, how to display them, when and at what price.

Even a brief summary of the store inventory seems improbably over the top.

One reason is that store inventories have bottomed out, just as people with money are beginning to spend again.