The practice of "selling" large quantities of goods to customers in order to get quarterly sales up while allowing these customers to return the goods next quarter is termed ________.

A) channel stuffing
B) clogging the network
C) spamming the johns
D) artificial sales

Channel Stuffing

This is a deceptive business practice used by a company to inflate its sales figures by forcibly pushing more products into the distribution channel than it can sell to the end customers.

Quarterly Sales

A financial reporting metric that indicates the total sales revenue generated by a company in a quarter.

Artificial Sales

Sales transactions that may not represent genuine demand in the market, often orchestrated to manipulate market conditions or financial statements.