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(...) I was just 'chat'ing with a friend about this. It was this time last year when Walmart.com had a number of clearance items (i.e. Silver Champion for $28, Railway Express $45). However, it appears that they are holding onto their stock longer (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Yes... like the Imperial Shuttle that I found on a Target clearace pile the other day. Tossed it in the cart with the other stuff. When I got home, I noticed that the box sounded funny, too many loose parts moving around, then I noticed the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I have noticed that Wal-Mart has been carring fewer of the $60 and up sets than they used to in the past, but that Super Wal-Marts (the big 'uns) tend to still stock heavy on LEGO. In my area (So Cal) there are only 3 out of 7 that have decent (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) tend (...) 7 (...) stores (...) Did you find these at Super Walmarts or just regular ones? All of our Walmarts are of the Super size. There were a lot of these Harry Potter sets (...) I bust a gut over this last comment. I previously only (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I heard about this once a few years back. The person who described it to me said something to the effect... "we make it not resaleable, then dump some red paint on the pile of stuff in the dunpster". I was always a bit skeptical, but in (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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I quizzed a WalMart manager concerning the procedures for discounting products. WalMart management, specifically the toy dept. manager, has complete discretion as to when and amounts of the discounts that will be applied to the toys. Usually the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Oh . . . the humanity! That is very disturbing information. I have never heard of this before. I wonder if other chains do this. It just reaffirms that I should hit up more Walmarts to save the Lego sets from this dire fate as I did today. I (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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"sun yun" <solasphere@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GprGnD.6G3@lugnet.com... (...) $50 (...) flow. Where are you? I went by one yesterday and everything was still 25%-30%. Some of this stuff may go to discount Liquidators. Liquidator World puts (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I'm in southern california. I won't give my exact locations until I sweep my area. I know I'm greedy. :) I've been visiting target and walmart every other day for the past couple days. For some reason the planets aligned yesterday and all the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Just regular Wal-Marts, my old home of TN had nothing but Super Wal-Marts, but here in CA it seems that they don't build 'em that way. Only one in my area is even 24 hour, which hurts my ability to sweep a shelf since I sleep at night :) In (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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The part about the red paint is true, at least it was for Toys R Us when I used to dumpster dive. And don't think they toss it out by opening the boxes and tossing the sealed bags, so that even if there's paint spalshed on you can salvage some of (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) When I had two kids in diapers, I tried to get someone at Walmart to cut me a deal on some disposable diapers whose packages had been ripped open. I was refused and told there were liability issues in selling opened packages of diapers, and (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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