{"id":3225,"date":"2011-09-09T14:59:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T22:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2011-09-09T14:59:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T22:59:59","slug":"blockbuster-store-liquidation-sale-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/blockbuster-store-liquidation-sale-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockbuster Closing Sale Store Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is the first day of the clearance\/liquidation sales of the remaining Blockbuster stores here in Canada and as mentioned in a previous post I thought it would be interesting to pay a visit to a store that was nearby and see what it would be like. As expected, there were signs plastered everywhere telling people that it was a clearance sale and that everything must go.<\/p>\n

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Traffic wise the store didn’t seem to be very busy at all and the first reason that popped in my mind was that the sales were about 15% to 25% off which isn’t exactly a huge number to get people to have say a camping out frenzy such as a boxing day or black Friday sale. Then again, I did arrive in the early afternoon so maybe all the hoarders came and went already.<\/p>\n

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For many things the prices didn’t impress me too much. For example, in the game section you can see that this Wii Sport resort game is tagged at about $59.99 and it didn’t even look new to me. Even with a 15% off assuming it was new I can find it at a lot of places for about $49.99.<\/p>\n

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I guess the most popular sections that people immediately look at are the new release sections as that appeared to have the most empty shelves.<\/p>\n

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Maybe it’s just me, but one thing I did find confusing about the pricing was that while there were a ton of signs telling you that everything is 15% to 25% off, many times I just found myself confused at what the price was for the item to do the calculation on. For example, like in this kids section you see that it says 25% off DVD’s that normally regular for about $6.99 to $16.99. But with that in mind there didn’t appear to be anything to indicate what the actual prices were for the items on the shelf.<\/p>\n

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It was kind of the same story for many other items like the video games. Like for this it says 15% off games with regular prices ranging from $12.98 to $54.99 but there isn’t any price on the games to tell you what the price is in the first. I can imagine the company losing a lot of sales that way.<\/p>\n

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Some items did have tags though which leads me to believe that there is simply a bit too much stock to tag which was overwhelming for the employees. <\/p>\n

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The cheapest price for any item I was able to find was that they were selling discs from TV box sets individually. Like in this example I saw that they were selling this one disc from season five of the show 24 for about $2.16.<\/p>\n

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I then remembered that blockbuster also sold junkfood such as chips and so I thought it would be interesting to see if even the prices on those were extremely cheaper than everywhere else or not. For the most part, I would say no as even all these bag of chips were still tagged at $3.99. Even at 25% off you can find it for less at most large supermarkets.<\/p>\n

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In the store I also saw that Wind Mobile had a kiosk presence in the store. That just made me wonder how the closing of Blockbuster stores will affect Wind mobile as I am assuming they had a partnership to put their kiosks in their locations. That must be a big loss for the company.<\/p>\n

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Overall, I would say at this point the main selling factor is if you are afraid that if you don’t buy it now someone else will. But for myself, since I technically don’t need anything then the sale has to be extremely cheap for me to get even semi impulsive. There were quite a few brand new items as well and if you can wait and want to risk it a bit I’m sure the sale price will be even lower as the month ends. I might even pay a visit again once they announce say a 70% off sale as I can easily see many things being good birthday and Christmas gifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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