Sears is closing a local store. They’re only to the “10% Off” stage and the goddamn closing-sale amateurs are already buying stuff!
Hey, idiots, learn the rules or stay the fuck home!!
At the 10% level you’re supposed to scope out what’s left of the store, denote what you might want @ the 33%-off level, the 50% -off level, and so on.
Only a moron actually buys anything @ 10% off!
I have NEVER seen a store closing ad that did not state that sale prices @ other stores in the chain did not apply to the closing store.
A couple of years ago ,when K-mart was closing a store, the regular ad had socks and underwear @ “buy one and get the second @ 1/2 off”. The goddamn amateurs picked the sock and underwear shelves clean @ the closing store when the sale was @ the 5%-off level!!
They might have the right idea. Once the clearance/liquidation company takes over, they might actually RAISE base prices, then take a percentage off. And once it’s at the “insane deal!” level, most of the good stuff will be long gone anyway.
And you’re supposed to “hide” what you want to buy later by putting it on a wrong shelf or hanger behind a bunch of other stuff, so nobody else will get it first.
Seriously, zenith: you’re complaining that their shopping strategy is more effective at getting goods into their hands than yours is at getting them into yours. You takes your chances, maybe you don’t pays your money.
Apparently, you’re the one who doesn’t know the rules. They’re pretty simple:
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Sorry your Sears is closing. Those Craftsman hand tools are quality items.
Circuit City’s prices got scrutinized a lot when they went out of business. Apparently, standard operating procedure for “final liquidation” is to first raise prices to MSRP, then take off a set percentage, such as 10%, for the early days of the sell-off. In some cases, such as with certain flat-screen TVs, this resulted in a “liquidation sale price!” that was actually higher than the same television had been selling for the previous week.
So, yeah, for some stuff at least it’s better to wait, but of course if you wait too long, you run the risk that an item you want may sell out, and you may not be able to find it anywhere else.
No, I work near the the Kmart that’s still open and got the buy one, get one for 1/2 price deal after work the next day. AND, the price I paid for the “full-price” package was less than the “5% discounted” price @ the closing sale.
RTF Sunday ad circulars, people. If you need 6+ packages of underwear or anything else, don’t just run into a store-closing sale and assume that you’re getting a good deal.
As I stated in the OP, the idiots had stripped the shelves clean at the closing store while the Kmart that was staying open had a much better deal.
If Junior has just shit his trainers and you’d rather chuck them in the garbage than take’ em home in a baggie, then buy ONE pack of pants, but these clods were acting like they were givin’ 'em away.
BTW, another rule is to know what things sold for before the sale.
When Montgomery Wards sold out in the late '90s, this store, which never sold an $80+ tire in its entire history, had lots of $55 tires marked-up to “regularly $150” and then “discounted” 40% (cash and carry ,no less, as the installation department had already closed) and fools were actually paying that!
My philosophy is to wait until they get really serious about moving the stuff, and
that 5 or 10% ain’t serious enough!
People in our “1-horse bedroom community” still have two newer, better-maintained, better-stocked Omaha Sears’ to shop in, so access to Craftsman hasn’t been denied us. I feel for the retiree community, though, as gas is still too much for those on fixed incomes and the freeways intimidate a lot of oldsters.
Our burg has, unfortunately, been a net business-killer over the past 15 years.
The aging shopping center that Sears is leaving lost its other two anchors years ago and is home to more telephone boiler rooms than stores.
We have grocery stores, smallish Shopko and Target stores and WalMart left.
And some of the day-late/dollar short local pols have decided post-recession to join the Wally-bashing bandwagon just when we can’t take yet another boarded-up big box.
My son finished his retail career at Linens N Things just down the road a piece from our house. He left for bootcamp before the store finally closed (they went bankrupt) and I was laid off at the time so husband and I spent many wonderful hours strolling through as the prices dropped exponentially, day by day.
Got me a way cool comforter/sheet set marked down from like $200 to $50. Got me an ashtray that would fit my standing base (somewhat similar to this) for a dollar. Got me a Roboraptor.FOR TWENTY BUCKS!!!. I LOVE clearance sales!!
Just in case anyone was wondering, the dog was not at all impressed with Roboraptor. In fact, they didn’t get along real well. Adding that to the fact that I was too stupid to make it do anything really cool, I gave it to my three year old nephew. He (and my brother - his father) LOVE IT! Coupled with the fact that nephew can’t have any pets with hair (he gets hives) this worked out perfectly. He now has a pet raptor. So it went to a good home anyway.
I really miss “LNT”. I’d have shopped there more often if the nearest one hadn’t been located so far from my home (my wife referred to its being damn near halfway to Wyoming more than once).
Never had a problem with their products, the store was clean and well-organized, the employees pleasant and knowledgeable. Undoubtedly, mismanagement on the part of “suits” 1000s of miles away was what did them in.
It sounds like LNT dealt fairly to the end. None of this "mark up 100%, then down 40%"crapola. I wish I could have made their local sale.
I hate those idiots who buy up plants at the garden center early in the summer when they’re only discounted 10%.
Those in the know wait until November when they’re mostly dead, and you can get them for 75% off!!! You can have a whole garden stocked with dead stuff that was an absolute steal.*
*In truth, the discount/late season sell-off racks have yielded me some real bargains in plants, but it takes some experience to know what’s a dormant perennial as opposed to a dead/dying annual that will not revive come spring.
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