Remember how I said my local Best Buy had 65 Wii U's for sale a while back?

[gergroy]

spurgeonryan said:

gergroy said:

Well, having worked at best buy for six years, i have a very good idea of how they manage their inventory.  They do not let stock run out of game systems (if they can help it anyway).  They are constantly restocking that product, walmart is stupid if they are letting it completely run out.  When i worked there they tried to keep the stock level up to around 80-100 during the holidays for each system.  Since you counted that stock before super smash and black friday, i am quite sure the store sold more than 20 systems.  That is why your stock counting at random stores is silly.  Unless you are there to track replenishments, it is completely worthless...

My store has sold 6 in the last month. The Walmarts around us have sold 23 across 5 stores. For the Wii U stores are not taking the risk. We have five n my Walmart now, we sold just one this past week. 

Are you saying the Best Buy near my house has 80-100 vita systems? Since they like to over spend as you say.

I would not count on any other system, but if you honestly believe they are replenishing the struggling Wii U , U are greatly mistaken. PS4, X1, 360, PS3, 3DS? Certainly. But you do not take gambles on systems or any merchandise that sells poorly historically. Maybe your managers of old did so, but that was a gamble on their part and probably the reason Walmart is king of the retail world.

Managers didn't have anything to do with inventory, it was all automated.  Inventory fell below a certain level, the computer shipped more product.  And yes, they are probably replenishing the U, the fact that they even had 60 in stock showed that they were ramping up for holiday time.  That means they are trying to keep a higher number of consoles in the stores so that they don't run out.  

Thats all moot though, because neither one of us actually know for sure whether they have had and replenishments or not, so the whole conversation is just silly.