On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 05:21:52 -0700 pj <pj4380@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
| Ant wrote:
|> On 4/19/2008 8:43 PM PT, lorincantrell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
typed:
|>
|>>> Last week, they had about 20 of these on the shelf. Today, all
|>>> gone. Are
|>>> they popular or something?
|>>
|>> I noticed this too, about two weeks after I got my "coupon" from ye
|>> olde government they just disappeared. However, two weeks later
|>> (today), Wal-Mart had plenty of the RCA unit it stock (but nary a
|>> Magnavox) and I picked one up for my parents. I figured the coupons
|>> started hitting mailboxes and pulled down the stock quickly, and
|>> they're just getting caught back up.
|>
|> Do we happen to know when stores usually get refills? I was hoping to
|> use my coupons at the last week before expiring, but I don't think I
|> should do that.
|
| On commodity items, Wal-Mart usually makes the
| vendor/manufacturer responsible to monitor
| regional warehouse and store stock levels and
| ****p as needed.
I've noticed some products at Wal-Mart sell out and take quite a while to
get back in stock. Does Wal-Mart provide instant sales re****ts to
vendors?
| Store stock levels will have larger swings and
| scheduling of deliveries will be less predictable.
And in turn, for consumable items like food, people will buy out stock
faster
and make it even harder to keep shelves stocked. That shouldn't be so
much
of a problem with converter coupons. But I can see issues on the horizon
if
the stocking problems get worse and people can't find one before the
coupon
expires.
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