Kmart toy sale 2nd to 15th July.

[griffin]

I found the same at Kmart Innaloo:
ROTF Deluxes & FAB marked at $19
ROTF Leaders at $68
Looks like a response to Big-W's prices to me.

The Garden City store that I went to yesterday had all but the FABs prices changed, and wouldn't you know it... I only wanted the new FABs from there. Fortunately they were willing to price-match to BigW (musta just asked if they had FABs, without asking for specific ones, because the ones I wanted aren't in BigW yet).

The big bummer though - they wouldn't accept my staff discount card on price-matched items. That's new, because I've always been able to get the extra staff discount on price-matched items. As a manager at DavidJones recently pointed out to me - loyalty and staff cards are the reasons why a person would bother to buy something at their store, if they are only prepared to price-match 'instock' items. Otherwise, they would just buy it from that nearby store and save the time and hassle.

I guess with Kmart, you still have fly-buys or gift-cards as a reason to go to the trouble of price-matching an item that you know is instock at the nearby competitor.

[blackie]

The Garden City store that I went to yesterday had all but the FABs prices changed, and wouldn't you know it... I only wanted the new FABs from there. Fortunately they were willing to price-match to BigW (musta just asked if they had FABs, without asking for specific ones, because the ones I wanted aren't in BigW yet).

The big bummer though - they wouldn't accept my staff discount card on price-matched items. That's new, because I've always been able to get the extra staff discount on price-matched items. As a manager at DavidJones recently pointed out to me - loyalty and staff cards are the reasons why a person would bother to buy something at their store, if they are only prepared to price-match 'instock' items. Otherwise, they would just buy it from that nearby store and save the time and hassle.

I guess with Kmart, you still have fly-buys or gift-cards as a reason to go to the trouble of price-matching an item that you know is instock at the nearby competitor.

they did it for us when i scanned mine for all the members at the meet the other night, wierd

[griffin]

Maybe it's just the Garden City store being stindgey. After all, they were still charging $29 for the FABS...

[TF76]

I price matched the cents difference then used a staff discount at kmart yesterday. I think if it wasn't accepted the system would reject it. Like how target rejects staff discount when there is 15% Off storewide. Kmart tried to refuse double discount on a wii console last year but it scanned and went through the system.

[jaydisc]

Just noticed this morning that Kmart replaced their online catalog with a new one reflecting the updated prices ($68 for Leader, $19 for Deluxe). I wonder if they'll print new ones too? I doubt it.

[SGB]

Looks like TFA Shockwave w/Bumblebee is on sale as well. Picked one up this afternoon and the price rang up at $35.

[Tiby]

I went to my local K-Mart today and the prices had been changed to almost match BIG W (but for the cents). Someone obviously read the BIG W catalogue and they moved pretty fast.

Now I wonder why Target has their sale so late? No doubt so they don't need to compete properly.

[griffin]

It's because most of the Target stores that do have a price-matching policy, will only cover toys during their sale. So, if there aren't any significant sales on at the same time, they can offer price-matching with very little risk to actually needing to do it. It's a bit like offering an item on sale at a heavy discount, but then not having it in stock during the sale, and therefore not losing any money over it.

[fatbot]

It's because most of the Target stores that do have a price-matching policy, will only cover toys during their sale. So, if there aren't any significant sales on at the same time, they can offer price-matching with very little risk to actually needing to do it. It's a bit like offering an item on sale at a heavy discount, but then not having it in stock during the sale, and therefore not losing any money over it.

If they don't have an item you want, ask for a raincheck, if they refuse, put in a complaint with fair trading. It smacks of false advertising when stores advertise a product for a sale, then don't deliver it and then refuse to give you a raincheck so you can get it at the sale price.