Infamous said:
You obviously don't work in retail. Also, contrast this to previous years where around Christmas we had 1/3rd-ish of the amount we're receiving now, except it was in higher demand last year, etc. |
I work in retail, and for every item there is a minimum and a maximum allowed to be on hand at any given time. So it isn't Sony "channel stuffing" it's your company saying we want up to this many on hand. To try to say it's Sony is just foolish because in reality they have very little to do with whats in your store other than the item itself, the quantity is not up to them.
Keep in mind the Holiday season has begun and you never know, all of the sudden there might be a strong demand. Commonly companies will ship what seems to be an excess amount of a product when they are preparing to run a premotion on it. So it's a little immature of you to say Sony is channel stuffing when clearly you don't understand all the workings of retail. I don't either, but it would appear I know more about what goes on than you.
EDIT: On the first couple of pages there is an argument about stocking and what not. In this case the OP is somewhat correct. When part of a chain, individual stores really don't have much choice on what gets shipped to them, it's all done at the corporate level. The only thing a store can really change is how many it wants on hand of a given item, and for my company that's a 6 month long process to change, so it really isn't plausible. Where the OP is wrong is that nothing is "random", shipments are triggered by computers based on your current on-hand counts vs what you're min/max on-hands are and future promotions.
