Merchandise Ownership, Department Stores

Ruth P. Mack, Information, Expectations, and Inventory Fluctuations: A Study of Materials Stock on Hand and on Order (NBER, 1967), chap. 5, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/information-expectations-and-inventory-fluctuations-study-materials-stock-hand-and-order/merchandise-ownership-department-stores.