Target Toy Sale Jul-23 to Aug 5

[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 ?

[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?

[Burn]

From the look of things it seems both Target's in Cairns just didn't get stock as they were taking rainchecks on virtually EVERYTHING.