| jlrx said: I will tell you this, because I know it is fact through years of experience in logistics - during the holiday and around releases stores take in ALOT of extra stock so they are not short (if it's available). Once the first week or two is over, or the holiday has passed, they send alot of the excess back to their warehouse to be redistributed as needed, back to the same store or another store somewhere else. So they may have had stacks and stacks of 360's, the holiday came and went, it was always available and no one was unable to purchase one at any point. Now they may send back 90% of the left over stock, and perhaps then someone comes around and buys a few systems and now its time to replenish it. That trend is most notable during DVD release days, follow it a week or two later and the 9 trillion copies the store had are gone. |
That occurred to me at the store, hence my question to the sales guy. He said they had been selling out on a regular basis.
Perhaps this is unique to specific regions of the country, or perhaps as was mentioned earlier in the thread some store chains just had problems keeping machines in stock.
I'm trying not to read a lot into it, but I was a little surprised to witness it firsthand.
