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(...) I don't think it's missed market opportunities but the nature of the product. Most kids who want a train set want something they can set on the track right out of the box and don't want to have to mess with building the train first. So by its (...) (21 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.market.theory, FTX)
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(...) OK, so let's be realistic: most retailers (especially the big three toy retailers in the US: TRU, Wal-Mart, and Target) are not going to sell Lego trains year-round; trains tend to be strictly a holiday purchase, and otherwise languish on the (...) (21 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.market.theory, FTX)
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(...) Dealing with a mall can be tricky. Often they are owned by companies that have several malls in an area. They often only accept larger deals, in which a chain has to commit to put a store/play area in EACH of those malls. Also, having a Lego (...) (21 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.market.theory, FTX)
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(...) Perhaps the lack of sales of trains with LEGO's target markes is because THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW LEGO TRAIN EXIST!! In the USA, train sets have been available at standard retail outlets only sporatically ever since the introduction of Lego trains (...) (21 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.market.theory, FTX)
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(...) It's not the upfront money, it's the projected sales that determine whether a new mold is produced. Trains, while popular among AFOLs, just don't sell well among Lego's target market. I imagine that the projected sales for 10170 is at most (...) (21 years ago, 2-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.theory, FTX)
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| | Re: What's up with the Wal*mart Lego selection?
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(...) As it happens, there was a magazine article in (Australian) Business Review Weekly this week primarily about the demise of TRU but also about Wal-Mart as it is the category-killer's killer. What it says ... Discounters [e.g. Wal-Mart] realised (...) (21 years ago, 12-Apr-05, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Hey there, I recently stumbled accross the following: (URL) for fifty pieces. Morne (21 years ago, 11-Apr-05, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) To a certain extent, toys are a seasonal product. True there will be toys sales all year long, but the volume of toys sold is concentrated between November and February. I definately see this in my BL store (becuase I sell primarily sets). Toy (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-05, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) And then there's the economic impact of Wal-Mart. A recent study from the Pennsylvania State University, (URL) that the presence of Wal-Mart in a county increased the family poverty rate or lowered the magnitude of the decrease in family (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-05, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.theory)
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Don't worry about it, Admin is much smarter that to get on shaky ground. It has already been discarded. Paul (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) I think you're right. And I think it's partly my fault! (1) Retailers are getting much better at supplier management, inventory management, just in time replenishment, and most importantly, sales prediction, thanks to increased integration (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-05, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.theory, FTX)
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(...) I think it is their improving inventory control. They probably realized they have to tighten up in order to be competitive with Walmart, which I understand has a running inventory update and automatic reordering as items go through the (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-05, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.theory, FTX)
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(...) Um, don't you mean "CLOSE to 0"?? If you did a trade with a BrickLink store, you surely did it via buying stuff from that store. (washed by that store buying stuff from yours to even it out or close to it) To do otherwise (to set up a side (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-05, to lugnet.market.theory)
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Some thoughts: While using cash is a pretty efficient way of doing things, it does have a cost. Surre, the cost is often pretty minimal, but nevertheless there is a cost. Of course a trade has its own costs. TANSTAAFL - There Aint No Such Thing As A (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jan-05, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) That's all well and good, but if you *do* find someone that has what you want and wants what you have, trading can be both a positive experience *and* an efficient way to do the deal. And sites that seem to be biased towards cash transactions (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jan-05, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) and (...) even (...) Personally I never understand why anyone bothers with trading. The whole point of inventing the concept of money was because one-on-one bartering (trading) isn't scaleable because it depends on finding the person who not (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jan-05, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) That would be better suited to market.theory than .general, at least in my opinion. (...) I find trades to be a fair bit of work and I find myself doing them less and less. The advent of automation at sites to aid buying and selling tilts it (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jan-05, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.theory)
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moving thread to lugnet.market.theory (...) (attn: spite what the following text reads, it isn't sarcasm. You'd be right in saying that I'm not primarily a collector. So help me out.(and others who don't understand this either) So instead of having (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.theory, FTX)
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Hello! (...) TLC keeps their vault for their lawyers. So when, for example, MegaBloks produces a set that's tooo similiar to any LEGO set they walk into their catacombs, take the respective set and show the world: We have done this first! On this (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.theory)
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