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Re: 2nd Round of Target Sales Begins!
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Sun, 6 Jan 2002 18:21:33 GMT
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Well it's Sunday, so we woke early this morning to do the Wisconsin Target
run.
We did Oshkosh, Appleton (x2) and Fond Du Lac Targets and they are all still
at 30%.
Strangest thing was one Appleton store had Railway express at 30% off, the
other Appleton store had it at full price.
Where are people finding 50% off Lego - is it mostly on the West coast or
all over?
Ah well, I'll try again next week!
Richard.
"Mike Walsh" <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:GpHvyy.4Es@lugnet.com...
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> "Mark Cornell" <mcornell@chi.tds.net> wrote in message
> news:3C371988.BD12880F@chi.tds.net...
> > As of yesterday (1/4/02), my local Target had separated out all of the • clearance
> > Lego and other toys into their own clearance section. Everything was • still
> 30%
> > off. The only sets of note on clearance are a few Women's Soccer Team • sets,
> > fifty or so Droid Escapes, a few dinosaurs, and a number of assorted • Jack
> Stone
> > sets. The trains are not on clearance and also mysteriously dropped from • 12 down
> > to five.
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> [ ... snipped ... ]
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> We do a lot of shopping at Target for our general needs so it isn't • uncommon
> for me to visit more than once a week. Last night I went because we were
> low on diapers and it looks like more winter weather is on its way. As I
> was leaving Target (right at closing time) the manager was near the door • so
> I decided to ask her when toys would be marked down to 50%. She said she
> wasn't sure as it was under control of the computer system.
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> I then asked a couple of more questions and this is what I was able to • glean
> from her, I would be curious if anyone else could triangulate it. I have • no
> reason to doubt her and she spoke as if she new what she was talking • about.
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> Clearance items are tagged at the corporate level but the computers at the
> local stores actually control when items move from one clearance level to
> another. As long as merchandise is moving out of the store at a • reasonable
> rate the discount level will remain at the current level (30% in the case • of
> my local store). Once things stop moving, the computer system will flag a
> price reudction and the staff will go tag appropriate items and the • process
> will begin again until at some point when the system essentially flushes
> what ever is left (i.e. 75% off).
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> She told me this happens on a store by store basis which would explain why
> we see different levels of clearance at different stores.
>
> Mike
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> --
> Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring dot com
> http://www.nclug.net - North Carolina LEGO Users Group
> http://www.carolinatrainbuilders - Carolina Train Builders
> http://www.brickbay.com/store.asp?u=mpw - Brick Depot
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| Around Atlanta most Targets have the Lego moved to the clearance isle at 50% off and some of them had clearance Lego on the back end of the Lego isle. But I wouldn't say there was anything to run out for, a lot of Droid Escapes and the Artic bundles (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| "Mark Cornell" <mcornell@chi.tds.net> wrote in message news:3C371988.BD1288...tds.net... (...) clearance (...) 30% (...) sets, (...) Stone (...) 12 down (...) [ ... snipped ... ] We do a lot of shopping at Target for our general needs so it isn't (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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