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Well it's Sunday, so we woke early this morning to do the Wisconsin Target run. We did Oshkosh, Appleton (x2) and Fond Du Lac Targets and they are all still at 30%. Strangest thing was one Appleton store had Railway express at 30% off, the other (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) There's still plenty of them in Upstate New York (at least a little north of Albany or Rochester), for $69.99, various stores. Just an FYI. plucky (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Went on my weekend trip to TRU today and just got back. Bought set number 4789 Alpha Team Aquatic Mech. Checked the TLC site and found no words on this set. Did Lego put this set out or is it a mistake that is suppose to come out later in the year. (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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<<<Snip>>> (...) <<<Snip>>> Or they just might not go on clearance at all. I went to our closest Target yesterday and they still had lots of stuff at 30% off. I decided to wait until today and see if it went down to 50%. IT'S GONE. A quick (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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"Matt Penney" <glister5454@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GpI5r7.3rF@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) of (...) I agree - I got the impression that it was an aggregate flow of clearance items the computer monitored. (...) Perhaps (...) The (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Went to 2 different Targets today. Not much left of the old stuff. Only items left were about 10 trains, half a dozen arctic sets, and some others that if they were important to me I would have remembered them. Guess it is time to face the fact that (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) If Target is this advanced nationwide I would be impressed. A local food vendor here in Texas (HEB) was starting to use a computer to help with or better yet controll stocking this summer (at the time it was only the 4th HEB to have such a (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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"Mark Cornell" <mcornell@chi.tds.net> wrote in message news:3C371988.BD1288...tds.net... (...) clearance (...) 30% (...) sets, (...) Stone (...) 12 down (...) [ ... snipped ... ] We do a lot of shopping at Target for our general needs so it isn't (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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As of yesterday (1/4/02), my local Target had separated out all of the clearance Lego and other toys into their own clearance section. Everything was still 30% off. The only sets of note on clearance are a few Women's Soccer Team sets, fifty or so (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I spotted these a couple of weeks ago, but thought others had mentioned this already. The assortment I found included Bionicle, LoM, and Creator. If there were other themes, I sure didn't spot them. Personal favorite design: LoM watch. The (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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A number of K-Marts I visted have recevied a selection of Lego child-sized watches. They appear to come in an assortment of Bellville, Bionicle, LoM and one or two other themes that escape me at the momment. Prices were scanning at $19.99. The (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) You correct, I did actually purcahse some set that weren't tagged but on clearence. :-) (...) Evil, but good! :-) I think we've all hidden sets waiting for that deep discount or sale! -Jason (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Jason, It's always a good idea to scan the sets at Target! I've noticed that while some sets are tagged at the second clearance price and some weren't, the ones that weren't would scan at the lower price! They don't always get a clearance tag (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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I visited 3 targets in the Atlanta, GA area today and all three had the older lego sets at 50% off! However I did notice something distrubing. A week ago I counted over 29 Railway Express sets at these three stores (two stores at 90.89 and one store (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) share it himself so that the above statement will be made true? Personally, I'd prefer you had just waited until you could make the announcement, especially if you still need to confirm something. Frank (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping)
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"Renard Graham" <rgraham@topcon.com> wrote in message news:GpCq61.3Fz@lugnet.com... (...) aisle at (...) to (...) My Target is the same way. I was out again last night and checked Target to see if the clearance had changed sometime during the day (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Tom Reed writes: Just visited all the Targets in my area, still at 30%, though the lego aisle at my local target was looking really ratty and I have a feeling they will go to 50% real soon since there isn't much (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) One DACTA set has 576 pieces for $23.75 (about 4 cents a piece). The 1200 piece tub at Target and elsewhere retails for $20 (less than 2 cents a piece). The 576 brown box only contains 2xN bricks, where the 1200 piece tub contains 1xN and 2xN (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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you guys have been talking about your problems with Target. I did some research on ine and found that www.smarterkids.com has in their Lego Dacta collections. A set that is just bulk peices. It doesn't come in a tub, but it does come in brown box. (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I'm in Texas! The store was located near Houston! (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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