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Re: 2nd Round of Target Sales Begins!
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Mon, 7 Jan 2002 18:33:17 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Matt Penney writes:
> > 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).
> >
> > Mike
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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 system(San Antonio)). It is an excellent idea in theory
> and is definatly the wave of the future.
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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.
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> 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?
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> Matt
Actually, Target controls this on a store by store basis. 2 weeks ago, Kare
11 (local TV news here in Minn) had a 15 minute extra on store advancements
on how they are trying to improve moving merchandise. Target was explaining
how the system tracks the sale of items and if an item hasn't sold enough in
x days, the computer would flag it and notify the 'system admin' that the
item needs to be reduced. It was a really interesting news 'extra.'
BK>
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