Primark has built up a mountain of unsold clothes and other goods while shops are closed but stock orders arrive. There is as much as £1.5billion worth of unsold stock in the budget retailer's warehouses at the moment, with no way to shift it, and that means experts are predicting a sales bonanza when stores open their doors again.
Hargreaves Lansdown analyst Sophie Lund-Yates said: "When Primark was ordered to shut its doors mountains of inventory was already on its way, ready to replenish stores which are in hibernation." She added: "For consumers this could mean bumper sales when shops reopen, as sales stickers are one of the quickest ways to shift excess items." Primark's owner Associated British Foods said 68,000 staff have been