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Grampy said:
NJ5 said:

I'm sure the stock for Black Friday is safely stored away in retailers' warehouses.

There is stockpiling going on at several levels (Nintendo, retailers and maybe distributors).

 

I've never understood the idea of stockpiling. From the sellers point of view, a sale is a sale, what difference does it make when. I would think most businesses facing a questionable and almost certainly disappointing season would take any sale they can get, as soon as they could get it.

Can someone explain.

 

That's quite simple, people have more or less money to spend at a given time. For example the weeks before christmas, especially on black friday, people have spared a lot of money for gifts and they are here to spend them at this time.

So when you run a store, you obviously prefer to make the consumer come to your shop the day they're walking around with pockets full of money than the average day.