Target Toy Sale Jul-23 to Aug 5

[tron07]

i went in the morning yesterday to get a Jetfire from Target. At night, I went Kmart and they had it, so I bought another. Will now be refunding Target's but as you said, it's just $1? Would i have wasted my time and petrol then?

you can refund it next week when you go look for toys... so no time and petrol wasted

[STL]

you can refund it next week when you go look for toys... so no time and petrol wasted

My point exactly. We all go hunting each week so it's hardly a hassle

[Dkaris]

we still have leaders left. only have a few iron hide and ratchet voyagers. deluxes are about gone, only some soundwaves and the yellow bulldozer. everyone hates that guy. still have some bumblebee and prime helmets and a few scouts. i wanted ravage and some little ingreat bought it!

i also got one of the red target toy sale shirts with bumblebee on the front.

[griffin]

I wonder if there would be any interest in used/unused Target t-shirts with Bumblebee on it? If there was, you could make a few extra bucks on the side if your collegues didn't have any interest in keeping them.

[Dkaris]

their red with bumblebee on the front with a blue autobot symbol and revenge of the fallen underneath, then Australias biggest toy sale printed above on the left. then the back has "are you ready for Australias biggest toy sale" on them, i dont think theyd fetch much =/

[MV75]

And as usual target has nothing!

Just like their regular days, empty shelves.

Do target actually sell anything anymore?

[Dkaris]

Well we made $80 000 in the first hour, and $585 000 in one day. does that answer your question?

[Saintly]

it was havoc yesterday @ liverpool... nothing much for a couple of mixmasters and fabs

[griffin]

And as usual target has nothing!

Just like their regular days, empty shelves.

Do target actually sell anything anymore?

Different Targets have different amounts of Toy stock. The one at Browns Plains had a massive double-sided 10 meter section of shelving allocated to Transformers. It was about a third empty at the end of the first day, but still heaps was left there.

The Target in the CBD (today) though, didn't appear to have much more TFs stock/shelfspace than they usually have, so was a disappointing selection.

If I went to the CBD store first, I'd feel the same way you do. But going to the Browns Plains store, I felt differently because they had 2-3 times the amount of TFs they've ever had at any of their previous peak restocks.

[nettie!]

1. Stock is setup at least a week prior to toy sale
- with all stock put on the floor.
meaning it can all be sold at regular price
2. At the end of each toy sale day the store is reblocked
meaning if there was a whole TF aisle and headbin first morning and say half get sold on day1, at the end of day1 they would compact the stock etc
3. Stores get stock based on their size and the likelihood of selling stock - for example, my store gets shit compared to other stores in our district cos we are one of the smaller stores.

sorry but you can't turn up on day2 of toy sale and sook about lack of stock.

If people want stock so bad they would
1. Be there when store opens
2. Buy the stock at any price - cos of they really wanted it, then they'd be happy to simply find it.

The Vic stores made anywhere between $323,000 and $440,000 on day1 - normal day budget is approx $60,000 ?