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Re: End of Clearance Stock?
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:27:28 GMT
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Ray Sanders wrote in message <38A7C416.C15AFC0@svic.net>...
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> To the issue of stock suddenly vanishing... several possibilities:
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> o Others reading lugnet are making offers for 'the entire clearance
> stock' of legos
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> o Store stock-balancing. One toy dept manager told me that the regional
> manager would re-balance stock between stores on a case-by-case basis,
> using his own car. Apparently there is no set standard mechanism, but
> some people are being creative.
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> o Reshipment back to TLC. One KM manager tried to tell me that he could
> send stuff back. Based on his store and the old stuff lying around, I
> believe he was blowing smoke. Keep an eye on the Lego Outlet store stuff
> for price labels from WM or KM.
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> o Back-room hiding. It happens. Sometimes, they just want it to vanish
> for a week or two.
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> o Massive mark-down and we just missed it. It happens. One sunday
> morning, the local store slashed the price on a big stack of Ninja
> Fortress. I grabbed 10. There were two left. They did not last the day.
> It happens.
I have one more scenario to add. A Fred Meyer's manager told me that if a
Lego set doesn't sell at 50% he donates it to charity. He can take the full
value as a tax write off. His sets do disappear after 50% has been around
awhile and I have never gotten any deep discounts. A different Fred Meyers
follows the computer clearance prices set by the corporate office and I can
get the deep discounts. There seems to some flexibility given to the store
managers.
Rose
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| I have wondered about this as well. My take (as previously stated) is that WMs operate on a multi-level price-control scheme. Top level is corporate (Bentonville AR), followed by regional offices, then the store. Corp has to decide what each store (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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