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Old 09-05-2005, 10:09 PM
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"Stocking" Sign!

I saw a sign the other day....think it was at TRU...but it may have been Target....stating they put out their stock during the day "when it comes in"....and not overnight!


Think this will stop the early morning door crashers?

Think it will help up regular folks get some coveted diecast?
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Old 09-05-2005, 10:37 PM
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Saw that sign at one of the Targets by my house. They never have much of anything so I don't know how effective the policy is.
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Old 09-06-2005, 12:53 AM
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Thats a "Good" sign in my book!
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Old 09-06-2005, 08:52 AM
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I think this a weak attempt by these stores is to placate the complaints of back room scams (as what I was half told by a Target employee); frankly I still think a lot of that occurs (look how many we read here on a near daily basis!).
Truth of the matter is they stock the merchandise when they get around to doing it - whenever they get to it - day or night (and provided they have able bodies to put the merchandise out).

Who are they kidding?

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Old 09-06-2005, 09:48 AM
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I've been advocating this strategy for a long time now, random stocking, can the morning olympics. I hope it happens chain wide.

I have been in a store that had one sign on an endcap that said they would only restock overnight, and in the aisle of that same store the sign said they would stock when items came in. Seems like even the store doesn't know when they restock!
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Old 09-06-2005, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by john5220
I saw a sign the other day....think it was at TRU...but it may have been Target....stating they put out their stock during the day "when it comes in"....and not overnight!


Think this will stop the early morning door crashers?

Think it will help up regular folks get some coveted diecast?
I believe it does. My last three trips to TRU have all yielded some good finds:
current Classic Gold and Mopars, and, on the last trip, the Big Boats.
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Old 09-06-2005, 12:01 PM
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I've seen these signs in different stores over about 5 years.. seen at Target, Meijers, TRU...on and off...sometimes they stay up, sometimes they dissappear... but nothing ever changes as far as finding good/new stuff
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Old 09-06-2005, 01:13 PM
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Somehow I doubt this will make much difference. The other day I was in my local TRU and the cashier asked me if I was a collector. (I was buying a couple of the JL 2-packs at the time.) She said that if I wanted I could ask an employee to go to the back and see if there are any boxes back there. Because they rarely put them out...
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Old 09-06-2005, 01:28 PM
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Somehow I doubt this will make much difference. The other day I was in my local TRU and the cashier asked me if I was a collector. (I was buying a couple of the JL 2-packs at the time.) She said that if I wanted I could ask an employee to go to the back and see if there are any boxes back there. Because they rarely put them out...
!!!!!!!!!!!! Does she know anyone on Long Island???
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Darn,

I thought this thread was about hosiery .... i was going start posting pics of panty hose...oh well, never mind.

My guess is 472!
Thanks for the contest.

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(Carnut peeks carefully and quietly through this thread........... what? This isn't about "stalking"???)
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