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Re: Target Exclusive Trains On Clearance
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lugnet.market.theory
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Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:21:02 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, Mike Walsh writes:
> I have to agree with you here. One thing about this hobby, you get to learn
> the habits of some of the big retailers. TRU, Wal-Mart, Target, and K-Mart
> all seem to have very different philosophies about retail.
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> Target as a company, seems to be the most aggressive about moving product
> out the door. It seems to me that they would rather it go out the door at a
> lower price than deal with moving it around (shelving and reshelving). Once
> they decide they don't want something - they get it out of the store in a
> hurry freeing their shelf space up for something else. Wal-Mart does this
> to a lesser extent, K-Mart rarely and TRU almost never. Wal-Mart and K-Mart
> seem to do it on a store by store basis (e.g. my Wal-Mart still stocks Yoda
> a full price while other Wal-Mart stores have put them on clearance).
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> Just my observations from hunting for LEGO bargains!
Good observations. And if I may be so bold as to connect the dots further...
of those 4 retailers, who seems to be doing the best overall and who the worst?
(strangely enough, both Target and TRU outsource a lot of their web presence
to Amazon)
Making a leap here, could the fact that LD put ALL of Galidor on 50% off
mean anything?
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| I don't think much of a leap is needed to figure out how *that* particular product line is going... I've never seen TRU slap an orange clearance sticker on a toy as fast as they did for Galidor. It went from endcap display to the steel bargain bin (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| "Bryan Kinkel" <helpdesk@loseyourmind.com> wrote in message news:H72H60.4C5@lugnet.com... (...) with (...) [ ... snipped ... ] I have to agree with you here. One thing about this hobby, you get to learn the habits of some of the big retailers. TRU, (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.market.theory)
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