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Re: Wal-Mart Clearance is underway! {FOTW}
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Mon, 8 Feb 1999 19:27:28 GMT
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James Brown wrote:
> Maybe it's just me, but I've noticed that here in Canada, I've got to be
> extremely lucky to find a single store that will ever do more than a 20% sale.
> Even the Walmarts and Zellers (formerly K-mart, to you US folks) seem to think
> that they can just continue to sell on retail forever.
That's cause they can. If sets haven't sold after they're discontinued
for 4 or 5 years is plenty of time to think about discounts, and by then
they're snapped up to resell to Americans... viz. the recent rash of
8880's from my country, the Netherlands.
Jasper
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| (...) I believe the term I'm looking for is "grumble grumble bitch bitch" :) I went to my local Walmart this weekend (and a couple others, besides), and found the great, amazing, fantastic clearance item: Twisted Time Train had been marked down from (...) (26 years ago, 8-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.ca)
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