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Re: End of Clearance Stock?
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Mon, 14 Feb 2000 04:37:36 GMT
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My Wal-Mart had close to 25 Air Zep's for forever at $9... Friday there was 1
minus the tail for $5... no sign of the others... There were 5 CyberStingers
down to $10 which I snagged 3 of, but that was it for the clearance... now I
believe they have 2 huge areas (it's a Super Wal-Mart 24Hr) of Star Wars and
the regular area with 2/3 of an aisle of all the other themes (and a few Pit
Droids I think).
I might get roasted for saying this, but it's personal preferences... I'm not
big on the Star War lines... I have the Trilogy, went to see Ep.1, and planned
on seeing it a second time, but I'd rather see a smaller section dedicated to
SW and a bigger section of Technics (I'm not big on the Throwbots either, but
I think my son is going to get one for his birthday, so ask me after I've
played with it in two weeks.) All we have for Technics are the Bike Burner,
the slam racers and maybe one or two other $10-$15 sets...
I wouldn't mind, but it's the only decent LEGO outlet within half an hour to
45 minutes and that only gets to the closest TRU which is almost as bad
selection-wise.
In lugnet.market.shopping, Mike Walsh writes:
> Frank Filz and I were discussing some observations we made at several of the
> local Wal-Mart stores here in the Raleigh area. It seems that some of the
> Wal-Mart stores had large stocks of items on clearance that "disappeared"
> all of the sudden. While the possibility that the price dropped and
> someone cleaned up on it exists, we also speculated that the stock was
> either sold off to a clearance chain like Tuesday Morning or Big Lots or was
> sent back to LEGO.
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> Since LEGO now has Outlet stores large quantities of unsold stock may be
> headed that way as opposed to the clearance cycle. Larry P noted in article
> 2755 (http://www.lugnet.com/market/shopping/?n=2755) that the manager at the
> LEGO Outlet in GA mentioned that he could sell discontinued items at a
> better price than other retailers.
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> Some of the items I noticed large quantities of that "disappeared" were
> Advent Calendars, Adventurers Blimps, and Wal-Mart value packs. The
> Wal-Mart closest to me had about 40-50 Advent Calendars at $15 for almost a
> month. Then they were all gone. Another Wal-Mart had a similar quantity of
> Blimps at $9 - then they were gone. So either someone (and it wasn't Frank
> or I) got a great deal on a huge quanity of items cheap or Wal-Mart shipped
> these items elsewhere.
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> Anyone else seen anything similar?
>
> Mike - mike_walsh@mindspring.com
> http://members.tripod.com/mike_walsh
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| (...) That is to say all our Super Wal-Mart has... of course personally we have done a "little" better with a couple of other Technic sets from Ames, but generally the best stores locally are over an hour away :( (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| Frank Filz and I were discussing some observations we made at several of the local Wal-Mart stores here in the Raleigh area. It seems that some of the Wal-Mart stores had large stocks of items on clearance that "disappeared" all of the sudden. While (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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