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Harbor frieght sells the same shit for years at a time. Their sales are always rotating. As a customer I basically have enough info from 3 months of their ads t
by grogenaut 6y ago
Harbor frieght sells the same shit for years at a time. Their sales are always rotating. As a customer I basically have enough info from 3 months of their ads that I have 0 fomo anymore and also I have a good idea of what the price on an item should be. So essentialy all of their targeting taught me how to maximize them.
Also due to any lack of slack in their product line, I don't have anything I'm missing out on.
So basically, sell me latex gloves for <$7 or I'm not coming in. Magnetic screw trays for $.99 or the bigger ones for $1.99 or not coming in. I can wait literal years for that motorcycle lift to drop to $250 instead of $475.
- clairity 6y agoin other words, they've successfully segmented you and created a loyal customer, with a bonus of inventory management reliability. there's nothing wrong with that--i do it with my local grocery/big box stores too.
- grogenaut 6y agoI guess that depends on how you define loyal. If I need a consumable tool I'll check there and amazon. Other than that I never go there. So loyal I guess?
- clairity 6y agoyes, loyal doesn't mean exclusive, just that it's on your short list, which is immensely better for a business than not being on the short list (exclusivity is an unrealstic expectation anyway).