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Re: Help me understand retail sales...
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lugnet.market.theory
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Sat, 12 Feb 2000 18:09:36 GMT
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cjc@/spamcake/newsguy.com
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 23:48:21 GMT, "Richard Marchetti"
<blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote:
> Hey y'all:
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> I have read where some people here on Lugnet claim not to get excited about
> anything less than a full 40% off sale. And I don't doubt that people do
> occasionally get sales of even up to 75% off original price on Lego sets.
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> Here is what I don't get: how does a store manage to afford such a sale?
I'd imagine they don't afford it. They take a loss. Wal-Mart and
Sams Club take losses on items all the time just to get them out the
door.
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| (...) We just look at the LEGO end of things--in fact they make a killing on other categories of products year-round. I'd bet that even when they take LEGO sold per year as a category they still make a huge profit. We see and buy the things that (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
| | | Re: Help me understand retail sales...
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| (...) I think of retailing as a gamble, albeit an educated gamble based on all kinds of past historical information & tracking. The actual store profitability is probably much lower than the 40% differential that we think of when we compare MSRP to (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| Hey y'all: I have read where some people here on Lugnet claim not to get excited about anything less than a full 40% off sale. And I don't doubt that people do occasionally get sales of even up to 75% off original price on Lego sets. Here is what I (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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