Toy'R'us is having another 3 days sale events, from 3 Oct - 5 Oct 2009, 20% storewide, excluding some items such as Gift Cards, Nappies, Games Consoles, Baby foods, formula, Itunes cards and Ipods.
Print the attached coupon & limit 1 coupon per person.
Happy Shopping!
Elcheapo
It's pretty much the same exclusion mantra not just from Toy'r'us but other big retailes, such as, ipods, gift vouchers, itunes :)
Should read "20% off storewide except for items we make 50% margin or less on".
In other words: "20% Off storewide for all items upmarked by 50%" :)
Actually the margin for iPods is next to nothing, which is why their the same price bassically everywhere.
10-12% does not equal 'next to nothing' in my books
10-12% is not much when you have to consider rent, wages, insurance etc
@jyeyasmyn: It's not as though Toys'R'Us sell only low margin items — they have plenty of high margin items for sale as well. 10% margin is plenty considering that those particular items are also big volume sellers.
@inspir3: As I said in my previous comment — Toys'R'Us don't sell things at a 10-15% margin across the board, not even close. The margins on the products they sell vary, with the highest margins being well over 50% and the lowest margins (10-15%) being on high volume sellers like iPods.
One counterexample to your proposition, though: Costco's margin is a maximum of 14% for all items that aren't private label products (which have a 15% margin). Yes, they may require a $60 membership fee to shop there, but according to your logic, their margins are so low that they should have shut long ago.
@[Deactivated]: If Toys'R'Us charged $60 per person per year to everyone who walked through their store, of course they could get away with 14-15% margins. You can't even compare the two.
@cyssero: Yes, in hindsight my mention of Costco was a bit silly. I just wanted to make it clear, though, that I never said that Toys'R'Us was working on a 10-15% margin across the board.
Nonsense. Plenty of margin in iPods. Apple just doesn't want price competition same as Miele.
Plenty of margin for Apple. Little margin for retailers. But they attract people to the store, so you buy an iPod with minimal markup, then buy a silicone case for $19.95 which has 9000% markup. Or an A/C adapter, FM transmitter, etc.
Which is why Big-W/K-Mart/Video Ezy also have loss leader video titles, just to get sufficient traffic through the store.
just logged in to submit this but u beat me to it already
A couple of months ago Toysrus had a 30% off all LEGO toys, thought it was a good deal but they increased the prices of all LEGO by 15% a few days before the sale… I'd advise people check out the RRP before buying anything from Toyrus with this sale
It is store wide, but excludes already bundled items. Still got some wipes worked out to be the cheapest option than any where else. No need to print the coupon they have heaps on the checkout to use.
Thanks heaps for this, elcheapo - used it today and am very happy! :)
Used quite a few last weekend. Turns out
I hate it when retailers say something is "storewide", then in the next breath go on to give a big list of exclusions. :P
Still, +1 from me.