| HappySqurriel said: This sunday, go to Zellers 1 hour before they open and bask in the greatness that is the Wii ... I believe it is against the law for a company to advertize a product that they do not have in stock and Zellers (along with several other retailers) releases their weekly ads on Sunday; this means that they will hold off on releasing any Wii systems until Sunday because they are leagally required to have them in stock. |
Not exactly. I work at Zellers, so here's what goes down. Flyers start on Saturdays. We usually recieve the stock earlier in the week, around Tuesday or Wednesday. We hold it in the back until Saturday, because otherwise we wouldn't have the Wii's when we say we do. Everyone who comes in or calls gets told the same thing; "Come Saturday morning. Early." So we open on Saturday, and sell the Wii's to everyone in line. The way it works (and the way most stores should work) is if it's in the flyer, then be there bright and early on the starting day of the flyer.
We're also stock piling Wii's for when we're open 24 hours, starting December 19th. We're putting them on the floor at 1am to get people in the store. Stupid I know, but that's what's happening.
And another thing. Wii sales are much higher than PS3's or the 360's. Then 10-12 we do get in, are gone within 20 minutes. Meanwhile our PS3 and 360 stock slowly gets picked off every few days. For every 10 Wii's we sell, probably 4-6 360's get sold, and 2-3 PS3's get sold.
