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3/27/09 at 4:10am
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Originally Posted by David Deeb
This all seems so desperate on Borders part.
I think their problem stems from these endless coupons. They trained their customers to never go there without a coupon. You can't just visit them & see reasonable prices. You have to wait for a coupon to be emailed & then rush over there that day or the next to use it. I have lots of favorite stores (online & B&M) that I frequent. However, I simply quit frequenting Borders because I don't have time to fool with all these coupons and I knew that without it, it wasn't worth even looking. If they would just have reasonable prices year round, people would enjoy stopping in occasionally. |
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Originally Posted by Hollywoodaholic
The 75% starting this Tuesday at some Borders is not a coupon. It's for everybody that walks in the store.
But I agree that if they offered competitive prices all along, they wouldn't be suddenly slashing everything to a fire price sale in a desperate attempt to bring in revenue. |
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Originally Posted by Hollywoodaholic
The 75% starting this Tuesday at some Borders is not a coupon. It's for everybody that walks in the store.
But I agree that if they offered competitive prices all along, they wouldn't be suddenly slashing everything to a fire price sale in a desperate attempt to bring in revenue. |
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Originally Posted by David Deeb
This all seems so desperate on Borders part.
I think their problem stems from these endless coupons. They trained their customers to never go there without a coupon. You can't just visit them & see reasonable prices. You have to wait for a coupon to be emailed & then rush over there that day or the next to use it. I have lots of favorite stores (online & B&M) that I frequent. However, I simply quit frequenting Borders because I don't have time to fool with all these coupons and I knew that without it, it wasn't worth even looking. If they would just have reasonable prices year round, people would enjoy stopping in occasionally. |
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Originally Posted by TravisR
At the store in my area, the "select DVDs and CDs" was easily 80% of all their DVDs, Blu-rays and CDs so it's not like a few select items.
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Originally Posted by Michael Elliott
I did go on and pick up TCM for $15.
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Originally Posted by Michelle Schmid
We went to our local Borders this past weekend and their "clearance" had just gone to 50%. It was a very small portion of the CD & DVD inventory, though, and little that I wanted. It's only on the "red tagged" merchandise which seemed quite random. S2 of CSI, but none of the other seasons? One box set of Family Guy, but not the other? Very strange. I asked the lady at checkout about the clearance that didn't seem to be and she said they were NOT getting rid of all CD & DVD media, just making the areas smaller and getting rid of certain things that weren't selling well (so in future I can buy all CSI seasons except season two?). Frankly, selling at MSRP I don't see how anything sells well, and she agreed with that as well, but gave the speech about employees having to handle the merchandise so it has to cost more, etc. If I remember correctly I can go online to Borders.com and buy things cheaper and have it shipped to the store free for pickup. The same people have to "handle" the merchandise, and while they don't have to put the items on the shelf, they do have to hold them for me until I pick it up. Now I've paid less for my order, the local store itself gets nothing from me, and it's employees have to handle/hold onto the items for me. The whole thing is just very odd.
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Originally Posted by DavidJ
What Michelle described is how it is our Borders too. It may still be unusual, but maybe not as isolated as you might think.
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