Stores loose money on Boxing Day sales?

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by zulu_principle

You guys have figured out the secret.....

Its a license to print money.....right Ken.

MarkoD.... your awesome we should be partners....feed and keep the water nice and clean and you can keep everything alive, including achilles tangs...your the king.

Boxing Day is a sales day....we discount to get volume both online and in the store...Do we lose money...on sales over COGS, no but come on, think of your power bill...and think of how much water we have...

With live inventory this is an extremely difficult industry....and an even more difficult business model when everything i have has a unique sku.

All retailers value customers please come to our store soon.

Merry christmas and Happy New Year to All....



Wendell

Don't all retailers use separate skus on products?

That seems like an everyday practice for any retailer.


Good post though asides from my above thought.

I can see your side. Tanks galore.

Originally Posted by paddyob

Don't all retailers use separate skus on products?

That seems like an everyday practice for any retailer.


Good post though asides from my above thought.

I can see your side. Tanks galore.

Really....i wish that was true, not many retailers sell live inventory....and when they do not many sell it with pics online.

People want to buy what they see with online products, so i have a zoo frag 1 and zoo frag 2...and we cant just order them that way....

In most other industries....you order a watch, a coffee machines, a ipad, a ipod they have individual sku's but you can produce them by the 100's of thousands....so how many zoo's look exactly the same...name many...and you expect to buy what you see....

Hence individual sku for each of the 1500 items i had in two of the 10 coral tanks we have in our store....thats a difficult proposition....

IMHO


Wendell

[paddyob]

Oh I see. Most places I hit use a generic code such as "zoa Frag".

I have yet to be fortunate enough to deal with a shop that thorough... Then again, if it increases operating costs, I would understand why.

Thanks for the explanation.

Originally Posted by OceanAquatics

Really....i wish that was true, not many retailers sell live inventory....and when they do not many sell it with pics online.

People want to buy what they see with online products, so i have a zoo frag 1 and zoo frag 2...and we cant just order them that way....

In most other industries....you order a watch, a coffee machines, a ipad, a ipod they have individual sku's but you can produce them by the 100's of thousands....so how many zoo's look exactly the same...name many...and you expect to buy what you see....

Hence individual sku for each of the 1500 items i had in two of the 10 coral tanks we have in our store....thats a difficult proposition....

IMHO


Wendell