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Re: Next year
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lugnet.market.theory
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Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:49:51 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, Kevin Wilson writes:
<Snip my own message>
> Interesting... the toy guy in our local Zellers (not the Lego rep, the
> store employee) told me that TLC really loves it when they have a sale
> on Lego because the store takes the hit, they still pay TLC the same
> price for the sets. Maybe it's different in different places (I'm in
> Canada).
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> Kevin
I'm also in Canada (Montreal) so I doubt that it is a factor. The rep told me
that, at most, the retailer took a 10% hit on his margin during sales. The
rest of the discount is absorbed by TLC.
Kev Z
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| Kev z --- your store employee or Lego Rep is wrong. Think, for a minute, about the number of transactions involved...even given computers, and we all know that the big chain computers are not always right, how could a retailer POSSIBLY track all the (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Next year
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| (...) Interesting... the toy guy in our local Zellers (not the Lego rep, the store employee) told me that TLC really loves it when they have a sale on Lego because the store takes the hit, they still pay TLC the same price for the sets. Maybe it's (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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