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Post by pas2 on Feb 24, 2020 20:56:36 GMT
I’ve watched the latest HL clearance hauls on youtube but find my store doesn’t have any of the same items marked down. Do you find your store marks clearance later than other stores? If so about how much later?
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Post by refugeepea on Feb 24, 2020 21:16:38 GMT
I'm curious too. HL isn't that close to me, but I lucked out one time on planner stamp sets for $2.49 each. I'd make a trip for great deals like that!
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Post by scrapaddict702 on Feb 24, 2020 21:58:05 GMT
My stores are usually at the very end of markdowns when the new stuff HAS to be put up per their deadlines (as in, it typically doesn't happen here until weeks after everyone else). We're not at the end this time around because our stuff is actually in line with the youtube videos showing up in my recommendations, although I still missed out on some really good stuff. I gave up trying to keep track of it because I end up frustrated and angry from the FOMO. I used to go constantly when I knew it was coming and nothing would happen, so I'd stop and go maybe every second or third day...only to discover that the one or two days I delayed going everything was marked down and I'd find empty shelves. I randomly watched part of a video last Tuesday and decided 'what the hell' and managed to find dies that were just marked down (there are still a ton left today). I think paper had been done the week before. Last week planners and vinyl were also marked down. I found some of the TH products today (but missed all of the inks...again). I don't know if we're typically at the tail end because of our location or because the manager absolutely HATES those of us that ask her about clearance stuff. In chatting with other staff, there are apparently a lot of us that ask and she is annoyed by it.
Basically, it's anyone's guess. I have tried and failed over and over to try and figure it out and there seems to be no rhyme or reason to any of it.
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Post by 950nancy on Feb 24, 2020 22:59:50 GMT
My stores are always a week or two behind.
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Post by pas2 on Feb 24, 2020 23:21:20 GMT
I lucked out last year and got a ton of paint, gelli plates and stamps. This year I wanted some archival minis and TH stuff but they still haven’t put them on sale.
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Post by workingclassdog on Feb 25, 2020 16:16:27 GMT
I never know when our HL puts stuff on clearance.. if I read something here about it or see a video, chances are my store won't have the same thing. Only time is when Copics went on clearance and people were buying a ton of them for next to nothing..I hit up my store and got a total of six of them. So I don't know if I missed it at the beginning or our store just didn't have any.
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Post by 50offscrapper on Feb 26, 2020 6:40:41 GMT
It is up to the store when they do the mark down. They get 2 weeks in which to do it. Last time, I asked and the lady there marked them down for me. I thought that was very nice. I went to another HL and she said she hadn't received the clearance sheet from corporate so she couldn't do any markdowns until then,
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Post by 950nancy on Feb 26, 2020 17:48:41 GMT
It is up to the store when they do the mark down. They get 2 weeks in which to do it. Last time, I asked and the lady there marked them down for me. I thought that was very nice. I went to another HL and she said she hadn't received the clearance sheet from corporate so she couldn't do any markdowns until then, This is how ours are also. Pretty random. We have three in town and it is a crap shoot within a two week time frame. If I buy something at one store and see it at another not marked, I can show them a picture on my phone of the one I already purchased and they will mark it down. |
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Post by pas2 on Feb 26, 2020 23:53:19 GMT
Was in on Monday and no markdowns, went in today and clearance was tagged. Got the ink I wanted.
Fyi—Met a guy that was buying iron on vinyl for his business. He said that he found the HL brand of iron on vinyl was just as good as the cricut if anyone was wondering.
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Post by mrssch on Feb 27, 2020 20:37:05 GMT
I visited the store closest to me yesterday and it was almost fully stocked with the clearance items.
Last week I went to another store about 20 minutes away and all their clearance items were gone!
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