Retail Musings: Holiday 2008 Edition

[bigjon]

Date- Black Friday

Time- About 2 pm (important to know for Blackfriday seeing as most shopping is done before then)

Best Buy-

Wii- No Wiis. No WiiFit. No MKWii. No SSBB. Those were the only games I really checked, the Wii section is huge here however. It has an entire row both sides and then half of the next row. I would say that about 1/3 of that is bigger items, like GH, or the big box games (outdoor life). Most of the games section was sparce. There were alot of slots empty. Oh, ya also i could not find any of the regular AC games, they had about 6 with WiiSpeak.

360- They had a least 3 pallets of 360s lining the ailse behind the Games section. There was a pallet of Elites, Pros, and Arcades. With some arcade spinkled in here and there. The games section looked really picked through, not too many CoD to be found. I was shocked to see a crap load of Gears 2. I am guessing they must have gotten a massive shipment. I did not ask if there were anymore 360s in the back.

PS3- Seemed to be in full stock, games section looked fairly well stocked (still could tell sales were strong though). Really not to much to report here.

Ok I went to Walmart, Sears and Gamestop the same day, but Best Buy is the most interesting because games are not behind glass.

I did have conversation with a GS employee in the Mall on Saturday (day after BF)

It went kinda like this.

There was still a sign saying that wii were in stock so I asked him if they really were. He said yea. He said they still had a few. I asked him if they werent selling much then. He kinda laughed and said hell ya they are selling. He said the entire day on friday they were bringing Wiis from the back on Pallets and putting them behind the desk, he was not sure how many they sold but they went though 7-8 pallets.................... They still had 1/2 of one behind they desk and 1 full in the back.... which means they had stock piled 9-10 pallets for BF weekend. I do not know how much is in a pallet though. I am guessing 15-20 which means they had 140-200 wiis......... OMG yes. I do not know if it was just this gamestop or all they did this.