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Re: Next year
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lugnet.market.theory
Date: 
Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:09:45 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, Kevin Wilson writes:
> Kevin Zwicker wrote:

> 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).

This squares with my experience (which is mostly on the back end, not the
retail floor per se). Unless a manufacturer gives out some sort of special
promotion, inventory costs what it costs. It's up to the store how much or
little to charge.

++Lar



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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 (...) (26 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.theory)

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