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Re: End of Clearance Stock?
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Mon, 14 Feb 2000 05:06:07 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, David C. Pyatt writes:
> 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).
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> 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...
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 :(
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> 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.
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> 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.
> >
> > Anyone else seen anything similar?
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> > Mike - mike_walsh@mindspring.com
> > http://members.tripod.com/mike_walsh
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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