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Re: Next year
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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).

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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(...) 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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