bdgrltiff Posted November 18, 2009 Posted November 18, 2009 Is there any way to get a general idea of how many items a store will have? I'm interested in a laptop (the $399 Sony) and I know I'll need to be there super early, but I'm just curious as to how many the store may have in stock.
bigjimslade Posted November 18, 2009 Posted November 18, 2009 No. When the store gets the stock it is wrapped in black and labeled Black Friday. Only the store manager knows what the stock levels are. On Thanksgiving Day BB transmit the stock levels and numbers into each stores system. This way they cant pre sale anything.
bigjimslade Posted November 18, 2009 Posted November 18, 2009 Also.....When the ad says Min 10 per a store by law they have to have 10 in the store. A busy store will have more then 10 and a slow store will have 10. No less.
Joe Micheal Posted November 18, 2009 Posted November 18, 2009 On Black Friday a lot of stores have their best sales of the year, and best deals. People line up outside of stores to get deals on things that they want. And as bigjim said, how much is stock there, it only knows Inventory keeper or the Manager.
o6blink Posted November 20, 2009 Posted November 20, 2009 The first reply is not true, stores do know how much they have, but like the above person said, only the inventory or manager or whoever goes in the back and looks to see how many there are. I work at a best buy and we just got the first black friday shipment in. I am not allowed to say how many there are though, there are many.
o6blink Posted November 20, 2009 Posted November 20, 2009 The items don't come wrapped, they come with a green label in which we use to tell if it is a hold for black friday item and not to sell it.
countingcrow Posted November 20, 2009 Posted November 20, 2009 If your store is anything like mine, you'll be loaded with plenty of what you want for Black Friday items. Our store has 6 or 7 pallets just sitting on the sales floor wrapped since there is no room in their warehouse.
DLM Posted November 20, 2009 Posted November 20, 2009 Come on BB employees - can't you give us a little more info - LOL????
bdgrltiff Posted November 20, 2009 Author Posted November 20, 2009 Yeahhhhh! If you can't say how many, then how about this - I plan on showing up around midnight to stand in line. If I show up around that time, do you think I'll still be able to get one of the Sony laptops???
bigjimslade Posted November 20, 2009 Posted November 20, 2009 I would say no. You need to be there around Thanksgiving morning. If I was going for that laptop I would be there Wednesday morning. Yeahhhhh! If you can't say how many, then how about this - I plan on showing up around midnight to stand in line. If I show up around that time, do you think I'll still be able to get one of the Sony laptops???
bdgrltiff Posted November 20, 2009 Author Posted November 20, 2009 I would say no. You need to be there around Thanksgiving morning. If I was going for that laptop I would be there Wednesday morning. Where are you located? I read somewhere that someone said they showed up at 3:00AM and there was like 300 people in line. I might could possibly be there around 10:30 or 11:00, surely there wouldn't be that many then. And 6 or 7 pallets of them? That's a lot.
emptynest-2 Posted November 20, 2009 Posted November 20, 2009 For Best Buy I am usually in line Thanksgiving morning. And even then I'm not first in line. But the line grows very fast. Good luck!
tyreejames Posted November 20, 2009 Posted November 20, 2009 Where are you located? I read somewhere that someone said they showed up at 3:00AM and there was like 300 people in line. I might could possibly be there around 10:30 or 11:00, surely there wouldn't be that many then. And 6 or 7 pallets of them? That's a lot.There's not 6 or 7 pallets of laptops. There's 6 or 7 pallets of Black Friday merchandise, in general. If you're talking 10:30 - 11:00 PM Thursday night, the Best Buy line is usually in full force by then. At least at all the stores in South Jersey....
bigjimslade Posted November 20, 2009 Posted November 20, 2009 I am in Dallas and I am always the first in line. I am out there by 7pm on Tuesday. By Wednesday morning there are around 100 people. I am a trend setter! Where are you located? I read somewhere that someone said they showed up at 3:00AM and there was like 300 people in line. I might could possibly be there around 10:30 or 11:00, surely there wouldn't be that many then. And 6 or 7 pallets of them? That's a lot.
Klownicle Posted November 20, 2009 Posted November 20, 2009 I am in Dallas and I am always the first in line. I am out there by 7pm on Tuesday. By Wednesday morning there are around 100 people. I am a trend setter!Not this year thoe. I should be in line Thursday morning myself.
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