On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 20:36:01 -0500, Herbert West wrote
(in message ):

On 6 Oct 2003 20:33:24 -0400, Charles Gillen
wrote:

The catalog is back. I picked one up today. So why am I complaining?

Because it lists no prices at all. Astounding incompetence, or arrogance?

How about: Now they can make up new prices at *any* time and
force-feed it to the individual stores' POS computers overnight or
even in real-time.

"To our valued customers: Please refer to http://www.radioshack.com
for latest pricing information."

Or perhaps, districts and even individual stores, might be able to set
whatever price they think their local market will bear.


Herb, N1 sommthing or other...

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You mean like Wal*Mart?

My wife found a desk she wanted at out local Wal*Mart (Vicksburg,
Mississippi) with the "price rolled back from $129 to $99" but they were out
of them and as everyone knows

Shockley's Third Law states that
JIT (Just in Time) inventory isn't.

So we were driving over to Jackson and there are two Wal*Marts on the way.

At the Clinton store, there were four of the desks but the price was $129.

At the Jackson Store on 18, after the third request for someone to give us a
price, we found that the price was $129 and they had two of the desks in
stock.

My wife commented to the employee at the Clinton store that, in V'burg, the
price was $99. The woman (very nice lady) stated that maybe the V'burg store
was in a more competitive market so had to have lower prices and the Clinton
store didn't have to drop their prices that low to be competitive.

It hit me on the way to the car that - if the Clinton store had four of the
desks (and, later, the Jackson store on 18 had two) and Vicksburg had none -
that maybe the Clinton and the Jackson-18 stores weren't competitive at all.


So, we went looking and we found a really
great - a much better - desk for $200 at a
non-Wal*mart store.


So Wal*Mart lost a $99 sale.


And made me suspicious of Wal*Mart prices per store from now on.



Gray Shockley
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