Target Toy Sale Jul-23 to Aug 5

[MV75]

Bigw managed to have inventory their whole time..... They never have empty shelves. So yes, I can sook all I want because if you advertise items for a period of time, you better have them.

Target is just pathetic. Must only work for the mexicans because chermside, northlakes and strathpine have been crap for the last few years. Not just tfs either, but lego as well. Even on a non-sale day, it's crap, nothing but empty shelves.

Woulda made all that money from clothes, manchester and dvds because they aint got anything else.

[griffin]

Bigw managed to have inventory their whole time..... They never have empty shelves.

Huh, what?!

Within 2 days of their sale, every BigW I went to had empty shelf space where the TFs were supposed to be, and none restocked until after the sale. Carindale was the worse with just Animated, and roleplay/Stompers.
What BigW are you talking about that had such poor sales and actually restocked during the sale?

[dirge]

Big W Miranda is pretty bad, actually. Their new TF stock lasts maybe 2 days. Sale or not. Mind you, Target at Miranda is almost as bad (and Target Hurstville is just as bad).

[MV75]

Huh, what?!

Within 2 days of their sale, every BigW I went to had empty shelf space where the TFs were supposed to be, and none restocked until after the sale. Carindale was the worse with just Animated, and roleplay/Stompers.
What BigW are you talking about that had such poor sales and actually restocked during the sale?

Both strathpine and northlakes.

The layby line at bigw was still 2-3 hours long when I got there in the afternoon & still had plenty of stuff.

The toy aisles were kept nice and full the entire time, it was the extra space (rest of the store), that they actually filled with toy inventory that got demolished. Target didn't add anything. The only toys they had any real inventory of were the cybertron $90 twin packs.

[TF76]

The big W melbourne people hit toy sale night, restocked once since the first night of toy sale and pretty much everything ROTF sold within the first day.

They only restocked with breakaway wave deluxes and thats all even last night, no more mudflap wave no voyagers no more leaders. Same with others I visited...

It's just the way it is, if you gamble to get something cheap it might sell out and you might have to wait a long time to get it, if at all.

[Dkaris]

Go shop at Big W then if target isnt doing it for you, or, go write a letter of complaint and mail it to head office, i guarantee you they'll read the first 2 sentences, laugh about it and throw it in the bin. You forget that target isnt the transformers store. we sell plenty of other toy lines than transformers and they too need to be maintained and stocked up. And as Nettie said, if you really wanted the items youd have been there first day of the sale.

I really love hearing these people come in and whine about how the sale sucks coz we dont have what they want, when they leave it 3 or 4 days after the first day of sale.

[Kyle]

My closest Big W (Armadale) hasn't restocked any TF yet after the sale.

[Vector Sigma 13]

Our "rural" Big W is pretty good with restocking down here.

Mind you i think im the biggest customer for Transformers in the district and turnover of toys can be quite slow. This can be good at times not so much for me but for the SA city guys that might be struggling to find that last wave of toys that are unavailable in the city.

[Lord_Zed]

When I used to work at Big W long ago they restocked regularly as long as the stuff was ordered in. it's also very hard for Big W Miranda to restock because the store has no onsite warehouse. (I don't know if Target Hurstville share this problem). So the managers have to asses the what stock is missing and then organise for it to be shipped from the offsite warehouse to the store.

I think the reality is that these stores just get caught off guard by how popular certain types of TF's (read Deluxes) are. And alas they cannot tell the difference between a Deluxe and a FAB it seems.

[jacksplatt11]

The one thing I noticed about Target when I used to work there was the lack of popular stock... Because we could never order stock (it was only what we got sent, I dunno if it's the same as you city stores, cause I worked in the country) anything that was popular and we sold out of that was it, bad luck, quite annoying but there was nothing we could do about it