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| | | I just stopped off at my local Walmart and caught the guy reducing the price of the Adventurers set #5956 "Air Zeppelin" to a $1.00 each. That's right...a dollar! I picked up all that was left (15). You might want to check the Walmart in your area! (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | Re: FOTW: Blimps for a Buck!! —Frederick Paepke
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| | | | This is not my day. I live an hour away from the nearest Wal-Mart. I just stopped there about two hours ago. I was very disappointed that the two Ninja sets that I've been eyeing up disappeared in the last 48 hours. I scanned a ton of sets, but (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: FOTW: Blimps for a Buck!! —David C. Pyatt
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| | | | | Don't be too bummed out... I just made a run to my WM and they have not yet marked down the AirZep's... still at $9. Maybe tomorrow, or maybe it was a manager's decision at Tom's store. My store has a couple dozen also... I may have to help them (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | | Re: FOTW: Blimps for a Buck!! —Ray Sanders
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| | | | | | (...) There is some evidence to support this: I noticed some more markdowns at the local WM today. I asked the toy dept person directly: are these local markdowns or did they come down from corp ? I was told these were local. So, based on several (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | | | Re: FOTW: Blimps for a Buck!! —David Phillips
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| | | | | | Hit the nearest walmart to me yesterday (over an hour away). plenty of stock on the shelf, but nothing marked down. i take that back. i did find about 50 advent calendars, marked down to a fantastic (not) price of $15. my wife wants to move back to (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | | | Re: FOTW: Blimps for a Buck!! —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Only if you get to the store before GMLTCers do, they buy EVERYTHING, they're like locusts. (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | | | | | | | Re: FOTW: Blimps for a Buck!! —Daniel Siskind
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| | | | | | | (...) stock (...) 50 (...) Hey now, no point in giving GMLTC credit for my handiwork! Dan (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: FOTW: Blimps for a Buck!! —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | Well... not to start a range war or anything but I've heard of how the GMLTC descend on a store, they really DO swarm it. How else would Conan have gotten hundreds of those 9 compartment bins? You're no slouch yourself, mind you, I've seen your (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | | | | | | | Re: FOTW: Blimps for a Buck!! —David C. Pyatt
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| | | | | | Hey Larry, I'm a relative newcomer to LUGNET (~1 month)... could you define GMLTC please? Thanks! Dave (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | | | | | Re: FOTW: Blimps for a Buck!! —Frederick Paepke
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| | | | Well, now I don't feel so bad. I stopped at Wal-Mart during lunch and the Zeppelin is still at $9. I'll check again in a few days. (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: FOTW: Blimps for a Buck!! —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | (...) Consider asking the management. If they know you'll take them, they might knock them down just for you (although likely not clear to $1). If several stores are doing this, I'd start watching your local Wal-marts--I literally stumbled upon (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: FOTW: Blimps for a Buck!! —Ray Sanders
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| | | | (...) While visiting a variety of WMs today, I noted something interesting about the shelf stickers. The fine-print read something like... "clearance 01/31/00 wk#1" while others were "clearance 01/08/00 wk#50". It would seem that WM begins counting (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: FOTW: Blimps for a Buck!! —David C. Pyatt
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| | | | I think that you can basically start you fiscal year anywhere you want... as long as it isn't February 29th :) I think it was different at about every retail outlet I worked at in the past... They can base it on incorporation date or whathaveyou as (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | Re: FOTW: Blimps for a Buck!! —Frank Filz
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| | | | (...) And there are good reasons for a large retail outfit to not do their fiscal year 1/1 to 12/31. No need to subject yourself to year-end inventory when the customers are mobbing you for the after Christmas sales. (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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