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Re: 2nd Round of Target Sales Begins!
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Sun, 6 Jan 2002 11:18:09 GMT
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"Matt Penney" <glister5454@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> The Food chain computer tracket each and every item and then reordered a
> case after a case had been sold. I wonder if the target computer is doing
> the same? Is it tracking the # of Droid Escapes sold or just the number • of
> clearance toys? I'd bet all toys are lumped in together in a section.
I agree - I got the impression that it was an aggregate flow of clearance
items the computer monitored.
> Target seems to like getting rid of clearance items, unlike K-mart. • Perhaps
> the computer can only flag for early reductions, meaning by Monday all
> stores would be at 50% anyway. I hope so anyway, I've been checking the
> site all day for a Target update :)
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> Just out of curiosity was this a new or an old target?
The Target stores is four to five years old but is in the midst of being
re-modeled into a Super Target.
Mike
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| <<<Snip>>> (...) <<<Snip>>> Or they just might not go on clearance at all. I went to our closest Target yesterday and they still had lots of stuff at 30% off. I decided to wait until today and see if it went down to 50%. IT'S GONE. A quick (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) If Target is this advanced nationwide I would be impressed. A local food vendor here in Texas (HEB) was starting to use a computer to help with or better yet controll stocking this summer (at the time it was only the 4th HEB to have such a (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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