Quote Originally Posted by griffin View Post
Maybe the BigW product buyer actually had sense to remember the last three years of Transformers and NOT buy up big on the first wave... but spread out the product more and restock if demand is actually there for it.
BigW may not make as much money in the short term, but they will be the store-chain that will lose the least money over the long term (other stores have to clear out their June stock at a loss months later, while BigW would continue to be stocking new product to the end of the year).
TBH, since Christmas 2013, my local Big W has been competing with my local Toyworld to be the single worst place in the entire universe to buy toys, so I very much doubt the notion that their product buyers have any sense.

(Big W actually shrank their toy section just before Christmas. Toyworld is even worse: while other towns' Toyworlds have shelves full of old product that they can't seem to shift, Rocky Toyworld just doesn't have any product at all. The manager of the Rocky toy store, I assume, recently heard about Big W's "shrink the toy department just before toy-buying season" stunt and felt he had to one-up him. The result is that he now has a sign on the door saying "No more than two children allowed at a time". Dude: you run a f***ing toy store.)