We have received Weird volume of game tables such as
Double Shoot
48” air hockey table
14 in 1 game tables
Ping pong tables
With modern technology today are people still buying this stuff
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Most of that stuff used to linger in our kmart store until it was dirt cheap on clearance. If it's not electronic nowdays most kids would rather pass.
We got a bunch of trampolines as well.
That's why Sears is failing at its merchandising strategy. In some markets, certain items sell well or adequately. In other markets, those same items sell poorly.
Instead of knowing the nuances of each store's market, they are just throwing random stuff onto the trucks with the mindset that it will sell regardless of where it goes.
Where are you guys who can’t sell these? I’m in Michigan we sell some every week.
Yep, we got a whole bunch of them too. Historically, they never really sold all that well in our store. We have to beg people to buy them, they will sit until the price drops drastically low (like $50 for a $600 pool table), where it is low enough that someone buys it on an impulse. That is a losing strategy.
How are we supposed to be profitable when we stock our stores with stuff no one wants, mark it down drastically to get it out of the way, and then order the SAME stuff to stock in the stores AGAIN, where the cycle starts all over again? I'm not an expert on retail merchandising strategies, but I know enough that a strategy like this is bad for profitability.
We have Holiday Blowout sale now going on
Come one
Come all
Buy that stuff up!
I am in So Cal - they sell well
Yep.....they still sell well.
They sell at Walmart so why not at Sears...