BBW Semi-Annual Sale..ummmm??

my guess is they have less stock so they don't need to discount as much. Maybe they didn't make as many summer items

All of the emails I received about the semi-annual sale said the big deals (like the 75% off stuff) were available in store only.

I went to a couple of BBW in person and there were displays of the 75% off lotions, sprays, etc. and 50% off the 3-wick candles. 50% off all the candle accessories, 50-75% off the wallflower plugs and big discounts on certain scents. Big discounts on the summer scent soaps and hand sanitizer and all the hand sanitizer holders and car scent holders. Not as big of a selection as there usually is, but still the same deals.

Well, rats. I planned to order more hand soap.

I have noticed that many of my favorites stores are not having their usual sales. It must have been a tough period for them.

Most people were shopping online vs in store, so their warehouse inventory is likely much lower than usual at this time of year.

The sale has been going on for some time now - I would guess that a number of things have sold out.

I did the the 6/$26 deal as I was completely out of hand soap. They sent me box #1 with 4 soaps. I thought it was weird as I knew I had paid for the 6/ $26 deal. Then a week later I received box #2 with 1 soap. A week later I received box #3 with 1 soap.
They are going to go out of business if they are going to handle their shipping that way! So wasteful!

and did you miss the part about the world wide pandemic?
Obviously lots of people not working normal hours and postage delays etc. They were probably trying their best to get your items out to you.

I want to get hand soaps, too, but refuse to pay their regular prices.  I was hoping to find $3 hand soaps but was going to be shocked if they would have their sale this year.  My closest store just opened last Friday and I plan to go on Wednesday.  I think their lack of good prices this year is simply that they don't have the incentive to offer low prices.  Their hand soaps are basically like toilet paper - there was a shortage not only because people were hoarding it but because you had a sudden change in the type of toilet paper people were using.  Before the shutdown, if a company had 500 employees who used the bathroom twice a day at work, they were using 1000 uses from those giant industrial size rolls of toilet paper.  After the shutdown, those 500 people were at home using 1000 uses from home-size rolls.  So while the grocery store shelves were empty, I'm sure warehouses were filled to the brim with those industrial size rolls that nobody will use in their house.  Likewise, those employees also were now using hand soap at home instead of from those wall-mounted soap dispensers at work.  Shelves were empty of hand soap but I bet warehouses had plenty of large refill packs for those wall dispensers.  There was no incentive for B&BW to offer deals on their soaps when they already were a hot commodity. Now that it's time for their sale, they probably don't have enough inventory to support selling it at a really low price.


The other thing is, businesses are operating differently now.  They may not have the staff in their warehouses to handle moving larger quantities of inventory like they used to.  They may not have enough store employees to handle the volume of customers their sale brings into the stores.  They can't have as many customers in the stores as what they used to have in at one time.  At my job, I had a patient call today to make an appointment and they couldn't believe it when I told them the earliest open appointment we had at this time was in November.  Well, we were shut down for 8 weeks and now we have 8 weeks of patients to fit in among all of the other appointments we already had scheduled plus we can't see as many patients in a day as what we used to because we need to keep our waiting room empty and need more time to sanitize after each appointment.  Same with all those people that think the first thing they are going to do when things open up is get a haircut, color and mani pedi.  Everybody can't do that the first week.  My salon is allowed to open next Friday but it can only be at 50% capacity.  They will be seeing their clients in the order that they had appointments scheduled when they had to shutdown.  My next appointment had been scheduled for either week 4 or 5 of their shutdown so there are a lot of people ahead of me that will get cuts before me.  I don't expect to get called for a haircut until August or September or possibly even later and even then once I get a cut it will probably be another 3 months or more until I can get my next cut because they can't have as many appointments in a day as what they used to have. 


All of that is to say that we all need to have proper expectations of how businesses can function right now.  And that includes understanding why businesses have a lack of incentive for sale prices.