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Re: Walmart Droid Developer Kits
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Wed, 6 Dec 2000 14:39:28 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Christopher Wiggenhorn writes:
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Jacob Kraft wrote:
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> > If some stores are putting large numbers of a given set on the shelves (29
> > and 54!), it sounds like they have too many and really are trying to get rid
> > of them, so $24.97 might be the actual price and not an error. Of course,
> > this doesn't mean that there wasn't an error in their stock order. Usually
> > I only see 2 or 3 of any given large set on the shelves at one time.
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> > They could have overstocked, sold them for cheap on their website for awhile
> > (while they still had their warehouse full), and then corrected the website
> > price as the stock moved out to stores and the warehouses emptied.
> > Remember, some people did place successful orders via the web before the
> > price error showed up -- e.g. some posters successfully went through the
> > entire order process on the web and got the cheap price.
> >
> > Of course, its all speculation unless you work at WalMart and know what
> > happened. I imagine that if it was an error that was costing them hundreds
> > or thousands of dollars that they would correct it fairly quickly. The fact
> > that they haven't makes me believe it is not an error, but just the way they
> > price things as the stock moves through their system.
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> I stopped by a Wal-Mart (Fridley, MN) tonight to see if they had any.
> They did not. I did, however, see a LEGO rep there. She informed me that
> 500 Wal-Marts nationwide would be receiving them. I saw her refer to some
> sheet that mentioned the $25 price, so it's probably not a mistake.
Given that the price is 24.97, it's definitely no mistake. The
6180 Search Sub was the same way--$14.97. The manager of my
"special" Wal-Mart told me what the deal is with those: If it
ends with a 7, it's a final markdown (like Target's 4), and often
they get consignments of slow-moving product from major vendors
and they get blown out automatically, with the hit being taken
by the distributor or manufacturer. (This may be where last
year's loss came from...?)
best
Lindsay
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| (...) I stopped by a Wal-Mart (Fridley, MN) tonight to see if they had any. They did not. I did, however, see a LEGO rep there. She informed me that 500 Wal-Marts nationwide would be receiving them. I saw her refer to some sheet that mentioned the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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