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Re: Target Exclusive Trains On Clearance
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lugnet.market.theory
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Sat, 14 Dec 2002 02:02:54 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.market.theory, Mike Walsh writes:
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> > 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).
> >
> > Just my observations from hunting for LEGO bargains!
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> 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?
> Making a leap here, could the fact that LD put ALL of Galidor on 50% off
> mean anything?
Yes. It means I'm not always wrong when it comes to my predictions:
http://news.lugnet.com/?q=galidont
:)
Regards,
Allan B.
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| (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.market.theory)
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