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Re: Lego says it's running out of toys for Christmas
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lugnet.mediawatch
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Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:14:44 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, David Koudys wrote:
> http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061031/christmas_lego_061031/20061031?hub=TopStories
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> "The Danish toy maker is having a hard time keeping up with demand for its
> popular plastic building blocks as toy stores stack their inventories for the
> Christmas season, company officials said Tuesday."
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> Ummm... some AFOL's that I spoke with a few months back mentioned that this
> would probably happen--moving distribution centres and factories right before
> the Christmas rush--not the best of ideas.
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> Perhaps TLC might have considered waiting, oh, maybe until January to do all
> these revamps...
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> Anyway, there you are...
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> Dave K
Just to play devil's advocate... sometimes in business you just gotta do what
you gotta do. I don't pretend to know what goes on behind closed doors in LEGO,
but if the budget was just that tight, or contracts could only be started on
certain dates, LEGO just had to hold their collective nose and move on ahead,
even it if meant killing their holiday supplies.
--Tony
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