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Product surplus leaves retail stores with their aisles full

Predicting what shoppers will want is a tricky business. Stores like Target and Walmart have been working through a glut of goods that people wanted during the pandemic until suddenly, they didn’t.

NPR’s Alina Selyukh reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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