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Re: Slim Pickings at Target
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Date: 
Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:53:50 GMT
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Ray Sanders <rsanders@gate.net> wrote:
> Mike Stanley wrote:
> > 
> > As long as most of them don't move, they should drop.  If you're
> > tempted to buy a few now, don't.  You'll just hold up the price
> > drops, or possibly stop them entirely.
> 
> What you speak of seems to be *very* dependent on the particular store
> and their philosophy of markdowns. My local WM-sc seems to be of the
> mind "don't clearance it until we have tried ever other way to sell it.
> Once we start marking down, do it in rapid increments to get it the heck
> out of here". Additional markdowns are not affected by how much has
> sold, only by *if* there is any remaining stock to be sold. I watched
> 6332 Command Post Central sequentially drop in price: $48, $42, $36,
> $30, $24 & $15 (I took the last two at $15). At each stage they sold one
> or two, finally they reached a price that did the deed.

Yeah, in some cases the store management seems to figure into it.  I
think the biggest percentage drop I ever saw was ... lemme get the
set number ... 6938 Scorpion Detector.  $25 retail.  About 30-40 of
them on the shelf.  Dropped to $20, $15, then $10.  I bought 2.
Most stayed.  I didn't drop by for a while, then found them on a
sidewalk outside during a sale for $2.50 each, 90% off.  I bought as
many as I could find, about 15 or so, after giving one to a confused
mom who had picked up a smaller space-type set that was more
expensive.  Told her that her boy would like this more and she'd
spend less money.

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  Re: Slim Pickings at Target
 
(...) What you speak of seems to be *very* dependent on the particular store and their philosophy of markdowns. My local WM-sc seems to be of the mind "don't clearance it until we have tried ever other way to sell it. Once we start marking down, do (...) (27 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.fl)

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