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Re: Slim Pickings at Target
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lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.fl
Date: 
Wed, 29 Dec 1999 07:50:12 GMT
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Robin Werner <robstormer@cs.com> wrote:
In lugnet.market.shopping, Steve Demlow writes:
The Wal-Marts here have the Advent calendars marked down to $10, much better
than their typical ~33% off clearance prices.

Steve


The mother load at Wal-Mart in Clearwater, Florida! They have a large pallet
stacked 5 feet hi with Advent calendars marked down to $10. There must be
75~100 of these sets. I think I’ll wait and see what they do with all of them.
Maybe the price will go down even more?

As long as most of them don't move, they should drop.  If you're
tempted to buy a few now, don't.  You'll just hold up the price
drops, or possibly stop them entirely.

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  Re: Slim Pickings at Target
 
(...) I've seen you advocate this, but I have to, to a certain extent, disagree. Suppose you don't buy any, the price doesn't drop, and someone else buys them all? Or worse, it drops, and someone else swoops in and buys them all. Now what do you (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.market.theory)
  Re: Slim Pickings at Target
 
(...) What you speak of seems to be *very* dependent on the particular store and their philosophy of markdowns. My local WM-sc seems to be of the mind "don't clearance it until we have tried ever other way to sell it. Once we start marking down, do (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.fl)

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  Re: Slim Pickings at Target
 
(...) The mother load at Wal-Mart in Clearwater, Florida! They have a large pallet stacked 5 feet hi with Advent calendars marked down to $10. There must be 75~100 of these sets. I think I’ll wait and see what they do with all of them. Maybe the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.fl)

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