Postby Sadie » Tue Nov 01, 2011 2:56 pm
Hello dear ladies,
another wonderful weather day here, temps in the 70's.
LucyLee, here a little of the info I can pass on to you about products and sales at WM.
Most of the items for Black Friday are different products from what is usually carried and is not replenished after it sells. They get a limited amount of something and once it's gone, it's gone.
Rollbacks are items which the store carries all the time. They are at a temporary price reduction. How long they are reduced varies and is unknown by most workers. Could be a few days or months. Home office decides and notifies what gets on Rollback and when it returns to regular price. These items do get replenished as they are sold.
AS Advertised are items advertised in their weekly flier. They can be at a reduced price for about a week. Then again they advertise things at their regular price.
Matching Price- sometimes in store advertising of items matching competing retailers. They also match ads of competitors. WM does not match prices with other WMs usually or WM.com. Doesn't hurt to ask- once in a while a manager will ok it.
Clearance is items that have been deleted or out of season. These items are not replenished. Depending on the quantity of the items, they can be marked down a number of times. If we've got 100 of an item, chances are it will get marked down several times before we are out of it. If we got 5 of an item, it will most like be gone after the first mark-down. Home Office decides what and when mark downs occurs on most things. Occasionally, the local store is given permission to mark down items that just aren't selling well in their store. So you might see something on clearance at one WM and full price at the another. But chances are once the clearance ones are gone, that store won't sell it any longer.
Hope this helps.