Wal-Mart worker dies in Black Friday stampede

[WinniBug]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

This is what retailers get for encouraging the chaos that comes with 4 am openings. They WANTED this kind of craziness - it creates an illusion of demand, driving more people to "BE THERE BEFORE THE STORE OPENS!" I hope Wal-Mart and other retailers that participate in this ridiculousness get a lot of bad PR for this. Enough is enough. For the first time in many years, my mom and I are not doing our traditional "girls day in the city" lunch/shopping trip today; although we never went to the big box stores on this day, we just decided that we didn't want to deal with the craziness considering we aren't buying as much this year.

That's what I was just thinking
It's the stores' fault for having a small, limited number of items and these doorbuster sales.
If you want something in particular, you have to get there first thing or the good deals will be all gone. Stores should carry more of the high-demand items.

[KSig RC]

Originally Posted by WinniBug

That's what I was just thinking
It's the stores' fault for having a small, limited number of items and these doorbuster sales.
If you want something in particular, you have to get there first thing or the good deals will be all gone. Stores should carry more of the high-demand items.

Of course, you realize that carrying more of them will cause the price to rise, right? Often the stores are taking a loss on these items (or the manufacturer is, which is why the numbers are limited) . . .

[WinniBug]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

Of course, you realize that carrying more of them will cause the price to rise, right? Often the stores are taking a loss on these items (or the manufacturer is, which is why the numbers are limited) . . .

I have a hard time believing that anyone in this day and age would sell items at a loss...maybe a minimum gain, but I doubt they lose money, or there wouldn't be any point.

[epchick]

Originally Posted by WinniBug

I have a hard time believing that anyone in this day and age would sell items at a loss...maybe a minimum gain, but I doubt they lose money, or there wouldn't be any point.

When I worked at Aeropostale (it was an outlet store) we got all the clearance items from the other stores. Well, we'd sell those clearance items at ridiculously low prices (.99 cents for capris and shorts, 1.00 for shirts/tanks) because they just took up too much room, and we needed to have space for the new clearance items. We didn't make our sales quota on the clearance items, so those weren't our priority.

I think it would work the same with electronics. Those 'awesome' deals are usually on things that are older versions, or have less memory, etc. It's probably stuff that the store isn't making money on, so they rather sell it all to make room for newer items.