Campus stores avoid dead eyewear inventory by treating the academic calendar as an inventory plan rather than carrying peak-period depth all year.
Build for known peaks
Orientation, athletics, graduation, and family weekends can justify extra sunglasses or replacement inventory.
Reset after the peak
Reduce temporary depth once traffic normalizes and identify styles that should not carry into the next period.
Manage readers separately
Reader powers may have steadier year-round demand. Keep useful breadth and deepen the powers that repeatedly reorder.
Use the next event as a feedback loop
Compare what sold and what remained after each major campus period to improve the next preload.
Continue: College and Campus Stores resource center.