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Re: Final Round of Target Clearance.
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Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:27:18 GMT
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AS USUAL, the Bay Area is stubbornly refusing to drop prices along with the rest of
the nation.
I'd like to have a word or two with the Regional Coordinator for this area. OK, a
few thousand, very LOUD words, many of them profanity.
Mr L F Braun wrote:
> In lugnet.market.shopping, Andrew Lipson writes:
> >
> >
> > Mark Cornell wrote:
> > >
> > > I went into my local Target today (Concord, NH) to check if the long awaited
> > > final round of clearance had started.
> >
> > Hehehe. I um... visited... several different Targets today. Two of them
> > weren't marking stuff down to 75% off, though. I got pretty lucky at my
> > second stop and cleaned out some motor kits, a couple of pit droids, a
> > Trade federation MTT (worst Lego model I've ever seen but a great set of
> > parts) and some other stuff. And I picked up various odds and ends
> > at other stops, finds generally petering out as time elapsed since 8am
> > increased...
>
> Unfortunately the stores around my area were hit n' miss too. I
> nabbed a Guarded Treasury, a Battle Droid, and a Pit Droid at 75%,
> but everything else was still only at 50%. I was told to "try next
> Wednesday" but no explanation as to why some things had fallen and
> others had not--even when I went to the price change folks they said
> no order to discount had come through. Every other one was picked
> clean, although most had lots of Destroyer Droids for $24.90 each.
> One suggestion: SCAN EVERYTHING. The discount level is much less
> uniform this time around than last time, in my experience.
>
> On a more positive note, I ran into Eric Brouwer at my first stop,
> and we greedily parsed sets until getting the stonewall at the
> scanners and then from the management. Ack. BTW, Eric, those
> 5 UCS sets were nowhere to be seen when I got to that one store at
> 10am. I have a feeling things are vanishing and reappearing as
> they do stock shifts, so check back.
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> > But my best find was at my sixth(!) stop, this evening, at the Menlo
> > Park NJ Target Greatland. The clearance aisle had been very thoroughly
> > picked over (= had been hit by a tornado) but on the top shelf of the
> > normal Lego aisle I spotted an RC car and a single solitary remaining
> > 4561 train set. Neither had a clearance sticker on them (which is
> > presumably why they were still there at 6 pm on 75% day) but they
> > scanned
> > at 75% off. I couldn't quite restrain my grin at the checkout and I
> > think
> > the girl there realized this stuff wasn't entirely for my kids...
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> It's good to see that someone is combing that Target while I'm away,
> Andrew. ;) That's usually my Happy Hunting Ground (that and my
> two Magic Wal-Marts), and you may be surprised by what just sort of
> "rears up" at that store. I found nine 4128 buckets for $2.84 apiece
> about 18 months ago...ahhh, yes, there are wonderful things about
> central NJ, despite what the Turnpikers would have you believe.
>
> best
>
> Lindsay
--
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| (...) Hey Tom, haven't we all on Lugnet learned by now that you don't draw flies with vinegar? :-) When I checked three Targets in Solano county yesterday morning only one had gone to 75% off. Unfortunately it wasn't the first Target I hit and I had (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
| | | Re: Final Round of Target Clearance.
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| (...) As well it should: of the 3 Targets I've checked this week, two were down to single-digit quantities of sets on clearance, and the third was barely into the teens. Ditto for Wal-Mart. Why would they want to increase their losses when half-off (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) Unfortunately the stores around my area were hit n' miss too. I nabbed a Guarded Treasury, a Battle Droid, and a Pit Droid at 75%, but everything else was still only at 50%. I was told to "try next Wednesday" but no explanation as to why some (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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