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SnesTea on 27 November 2011
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Joelcool7 said:
Snesboy said:
Joelcool7 said:
adriane23 said:
silicon said:
IMO I think it may just be hard to convince employees to spend their Thanksgiving putting stickers on merchandise.

This. None of the games at my local gamestop had sale stickers on them today (Got Sonic Generations for $30, but the sticker said $50), but I knew which ones were on sale from the flyer. It would take an unnecessary amount of man hours to label games, re-label them for a 1 1/2 day sale, then re-label them again once the sale is over.

Not talking the actual labels on the movies, games as much as I am talking the price listed on the shelf right below them. It would be very easy and non time consuming for them to put a price label that says 7.99$ and just put all the 7.99$ BluRays above it like they used too. Rather then putting a price tag on the shelf saying "Tomb Raider BR 7.99$) then having three or four movies directly above it.

Mixing the sale content in with all the other content and making it next to impossible to see whats on sale and what isn't. Thats not just saving time thats purposely done, I mean it never used to be the case.

In fact wouldn't it be more time consuming to put three different labels up saying (Specific movie name 7.99$) rather then a single one saying (BluRays 7.99$) and having the 7.99$ BluRays seperate from the others. This is where the labels did come in because it was impossible to tell which movies were on sale so you had to check the labels but the labels weren't marketed.

The ads said " 50 Select titles" or such, but how the heck can you know what those 50 select titles are if there is no price listed on the shelf or price tag on the product. I had to ask like 10 or so times about products just to see if they were on sale or not and half the time they weren't.

I just think its a marketing strategy. Get people in the store and confuse the shit out of them so they buy stuff at full price or nearly full price. You go in for your five or so movies and games and then you see everything else and can't tell whats on sale and what isn't and end up buying stuff at full price. Its actually ingenius!

It really isn't. It's time consuming to print all the tags, remove the old tags and put out the new tags. Especially with sale items. All of our stuff at my Walmart was stickered "PROMO" with a yellow, green, or blue tag.

Sorta weird because not one item I bought on sale from Walmart had even a sticker. I saw Killzone 3 with a blue dot but the four BluRays I bought had nothing and when I checked the tv shows they weren't market either.

I also can't see how placing a single tag saying 7.99$ on the shelf and placing 60 BluRays above it that are all priced 7.99$ could possibly be more time consuming then placing the same tag but saying (7.99$ Tomb Raider BR) and having multiple BluRays above it not just Tomb Raider. Then some of them are actually 7.99$ on sale and others are full price.

What I'm suggesting isn't more tags its how the tags they created for Black Friday were purposely misleading. But then again this was more Best Buy then Walmart.

I found Pirates of the Caribean 4 on BluRay and it had its price listed 24.99$ sale. But the others didn't and it didn't have a promo sticker either. So I've got to wonder why some items had promo stickers, others had actual price tags below the movies and others had no identification at all. That was Walmart.

You'd think if your going to use promo stickers that you would use them on all the sale promo's wouldn't you? Then if your going to use actual price labels that you would use those? Or if you won't use either you just wouldn't have any. But Walmart had all three for sale items which I found really weird.

Lastly yah the flyer stuff was at Walmart too, two years ago their would be massive stacks of say 40 BluRays or DVDs and it would have the sale price 9.99$ or so. This year it was different smaller stacks if any stacks and a lot more mystery so you wouldn't know exactly what was on sale.

I understand these moves were likely to keep customers in the stores as long as possible and to boost sales of non-sale items. But it is a little tricky, wouldn't really call it false advertising because it isn't you still get the sale price. But you don't know what items not shown physically in the flyer were actually on sale Walmart was better then Best Buy but outside the clearence booths and stickers you still had no clue what was on sale even items in the flyer weren't all marked.

I can't speak for all Wal-marts. But the store I work at had clearly marked items.

I did go to Best Buy though and nothing there was specifically marked as a Black friday sale item. Even looking at their ad paper, there were only a couple really good deals (40in 1080p Sharp HDTV for 200 USD) but other than that, all their shit was the same price.