{"id":3219,"date":"2011-09-07T15:21:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T23:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=3219"},"modified":"2011-09-07T15:21:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T23:21:23","slug":"blockbuster-closing-sale-employees-getting-sales-before-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/blockbuster-closing-sale-employees-getting-sales-before-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Employees Getting Sales Before Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So as mention in my previous post Blockbuster is officially closing its doors in Canada and a lot of people are anticipating for a liquidation sale.  According to press releases such as here at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/en\/releases\/archive\/September2011\/07\/c9209.html\">http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/en\/releases\/archive\/September2011\/07\/c9209.html<\/a> it seems like the sales are scheduled to start on September 09, 2011 and will go on till about the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>One little rumbling that I heard about is that company employees are already being offered the ability to buy items that they want before the general public.  So therefore, this could be a case of employees snatching up all the good stuff while leaving the the not so wanted items for the public.  Almost reminds me of sales events like boxing day where many times you walk into the store expecting this great deal only to find out that it is \u201csold out\u201d even before anyone got in.<\/p>\n<p>This just got me so curious to see what this place will be like on Friday.  Example, will there be a lot of people?  Will the shelves be empty for the most part already?  I happen to have a blockbuster near my area and so I think I will try and visit it early in the morning and document what the turn out and deals are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So as mention in my previous post Blockbuster is officially closing its doors in Canada and a lot of people are anticipating for a liquidation sale. According to press releases such as here at http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/en\/releases\/archive\/September2011\/07\/c9209.html it seems like the sales are scheduled to start on September 09, 2011 and will go on till about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[3267,3274,1218,2302,2646,3192,1689,214,44],"class_list":["post-3219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-financial-management","tag-blockbuster","tag-blockbuster-closing-sale","tag-customers","tag-employee-discounts","tag-inventory","tag-liquidation","tag-sale","tag-sales","tag-saving-money"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/924991_10264630.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-PV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3222,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions\/3222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}