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Re: Cheap Black Seas Barracudas anyone?
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Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:55:26 GMT
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Target starts their sale
in 8 days time (or so the sign says).

I too visited Target and saw a similar sign. And what did it make me do?

Instead of spending some money on Lego as I might have done, instead I think
"maybe I'll wait for the sale in case the things I want might be cheaper".
Now human nature being what it is, maybe I may have spent that money
elsewhere before the Target sale. So why do Target do this?

To my mind, advance advertising like this (especially in-store) is entirely
counter-productive. I read the sign as saying "Buy now and you will be
paying too much". If I had not seen the sign, I might well have bought
something. Then when the sale commenced, the advertising of it may have
caused me to visit again and spend even more.

James, as a retailer, does Target's advertising make any sense to you?

Kerry



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  Re: Cheap Black Seas Barracudas anyone?
 
(...) Also, I would have thought that if you wanted to sell a lot of toys, a good time to do that would be in school holidays. Which end today (in NSW at least). So next week, there'll be cheap LEGO in target. But Parents will have spent a lot of (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
  Re: Cheap Black Seas Barracudas anyone?
 
(...) ... (...) Well, if there is a plan, it's certainly a cunning one... I noticed this morning that various items which were on clearance for some time (e.g. Spiderman Action Studio $21.99, Yoda $74.99) have inexplicably either risen to their (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jul-03, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)

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(...) TRU Chatswood has re-stocked, ready for the catalogue beginning this weekend. Of course they now have less, since I visited, but still plenty. Not that this really matters since Richie and I are probably the only two Lugnetters close enough to (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)

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