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Re: Target Toy Sale is on (and they folded)
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lugnet.loc.au
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Sat, 24 Jul 2004 06:34:37 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Jason Wilson wrote:
> > 20 mins? that's nothing! When I went during lunch to a local Big W store on toy
> > sale opening week, I almost fainted when I saw this HUGE line of trolleys... 76
> > to be exact! one lady who was around the 30th trolley in line said she had been
> > waiting for 4 hours!!!
Any stores in the welfare belt have huge queues for these sales. The mums are
well-prepared for this campaign.
> My wife any myself braved one of these opening sales last year at a local
> K-mart. Arriving 30 minutes before the store even opened and had to queue at the
> door to get in. The astute shoppers had already collected empty trolleys (some
> with multiple) to rush to get what they wanted. Luckily for me my wife had
> staked out the store the previous day just before closing and knew where they
> were displaying each of the things we wanted.
Empty trolleys are the key, an offensive weapon in the right hands.
> After spending 10 minutes grabbing what we wanted (I got run over by a guy on
> crutches on the way to the Lego aisle and was delayed) we headed to the layby
> queue. In the 10 minutes or so the store had been open there were was a very
> long queue at the Layby counter - again many people with multiple trolleys.
> Deciding it was too much we headed to the front of the store to just pay for it
> all. Was not much better - they had all registers open and there was 10 or so
> people in each queue.
Recruit your own crutchees and impede competition. ;^)
> Standing in line we were talking to other parents who were also astounded at the
> number of people. They were also surprised at the amount of Lego we were buying
> our three year old son. My wife then explained how it wasnt for her son - it was
> for her other child (me her husband).
>
> Anyway this year we went a few days after the sales opened to see what was left.
> I was interested in the new Kingdom Knights sets at Target this year. The prices
> did not seem great so decided to wait until K-mart has a 20% off everything sale
> and grab some then. Funny enough K-mart had extended their sale and had got
> Kingdown Knights stock in during the sale and was selling some of it (the bigger
> sets at least) at 20% off - so on X-mas layby they went.
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> Did anyone managed to get a Millenium Falcon? I tried at various K-marts (as
> they had it in their catalogue) and was told 'they had sold out' - though my
> suspicion is that was staff speak for 'I have no idea what you are talking about
> about, but as they are not on the shelf we must have sold them all'. Was also
> told 'more stock coming soon, may be some in there'. Also tried the raincheck,
> but was told they could not by rainchecked. Just curious whether any of them
> actually arrived in Brisbane stores? If so I presume they vanished very quickly.
Maybe like the MF1, they will be scarce most places and then appear months
later in the least likely place for 40% below RRP.
pete.w
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