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This is an interesting gap that these resellers are filling. What Target, Walmart and other chains should do is ship their clearance to Amazon themselves to avo
by ec109685 8y ago
This is an interesting gap that these resellers are filling. What Target, Walmart and other chains should do is ship their clearance to Amazon themselves to avoid the middleman, but I guess that isn’t possible given they compete in other areas?
- mindslight 8y agoI suspect what they would actually do is calculate if shipping them back to their own warehouse and selling the rest of the inventory online would make sense. But I think what they've really done is tighten up their own logistics (and marketing periods) to avoid shipping too many extra items out to the stores in the first place. I remember clearance sales being much bigger back in the day. Today's clearance is probably still being sold above the incremental production cost, with a rebate from the manufacturer since it wasn't sold at full price. It doesn't matter that they're technically leaving some money on the table - their core business is moving "fresh" stuff at higher markups. (Also, that Monopoly thing was a different type of arbitrage than Brickseek)