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    Re: Help me understand retail sales... —Mike Stanley
   (...) 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. (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
   
        Re: Help me understand retail sales... —Lindsay Frederick Braun
      (...) 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... —Ray Sanders
   (...) 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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