{"id":1007712,"date":"2026-05-13T09:10:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007712"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:46:18","slug":"old-stock-turns-gold-for-retailers-as-smartphone-prices-rise-amid-memory-cost-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/13\/old-stock-turns-gold-for-retailers-as-smartphone-prices-rise-amid-memory-cost-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Old stock turns gold for retailers as smartphone prices rise amid memory cost inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India&#8217;s smartphone industry is facing the ripple effects of &#8216;memflation&#8217; or memory cost inflation with retailers reaping a temporary profit gain due to higher product prices while distributors struggle with enhanced investment needs for adding inventory. Companies, on their part, are facing a squeeze in component supplies and input pricing pressure, causing operating headwinds.<\/p>\n<p>Many retailers are selling handsets at prevailing higher prices bought at historical lower rates, effectively pocketing a larger margin on each sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India&#8217;s smartphone industry is facing the ripple effects of &#8216;memflation&#8217; or memory cost inflation with retailers reaping a temporary profit gain due to higher product prices while distributors struggle with enhanced investment needs for adding inventory. Companies, on their part, are facing a squeeze in component supplies and input pricing pressure, causing operating headwinds. Many retailers are selling handsets at prevailing higher prices bought at historical lower rates, effectively pocketing a larger margin on each sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007736,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007712\/revisions\/1007736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}