"I've gotten two to three pairs of air pods, air fryers, Instapots, tablets," Spencer adds. Spencer and her friend Makayla Ridgeway drive all the way from Mebane every week to make sure they are the first in line to find the deals. "We show up the day before, and set up a tent, and have an air mattress, so we're first in line," shopper Asalyn Spencer said. Shoppers camped out and lined up hours before the store opened Friday. It's called Treasure Hunt Liquidators and it's off Capital Boulevard. However, at least one Triangle store is not having any of those problems, and it's drawing a big crowd. (WTVD) - You've heard about the challenges awaiting you this holiday shopping season: higher prices, massive shipping delays, supply and demand issues. You’re not rummaging through stores or going through flyers.Treasure Hunt Liquidators is a unique store in Raleigh offering unbelievable mark downs for brave shoppers willing to roll the dice. “I do all my Christmas shopping (on Amazon) because there’s always so many deals,” he added.
Not everyone will miss Target Canada, including Boychuk who said he finds the best deals on e-commerce retailer Amazon. More than 17,000 employees will lose their jobs and Target spokeswoman Molly Snyder said the Canadian headquarters staff in Toronto has already been cut to about 80 people from 770. Target fumbled its foray into Canada and decided last month it wasn’t worth the losses it would take to turn around the operations. Target hopes to be out of Canada before the summer with the goal of closing all of its stores by mid-May. “I liked certain brands they had, so I’ll miss that, for sure.”Īs with most liquidations, the discounts are likely to grow as time goes by and the company looks to clear out product that hasn’t sold.
“It was a one-stop shop, so I liked coming here because of that,” she said a Toronto store. Olivia Dupuis was an occasional Target Canada shopper during the company’s brighter days and said Target’s departure will leave a retail hole. Shopping carts became a hot commodity with customers who just arrived waiting near the entrance to snag them from people who had finished. Lineups at a Target in Sudbury, Ont., ran through the main aisle as cashiers hustled to ring through customers. In Saint-Eustache, Que., about 50 shoppers braved frigid winter temperatures near -20 C to be the first inside their local store. By the time employees threw open the doors, more than 50 people had gathered and within an hour several hundred people were walking the aisles.Ĭustomer traffic spiked at Target locations across the country compared with an average day at the store. Lineups began forming outside one East York location in Toronto before sunrise as hopeful shoppers looked to be first inside for the best buys.Ībout a dozen people were lined up about 30 minutes before the store opened at 8 a.m. Most everything else in the store was reduced by less, with clearance sales on items such as diapers, dishes, and most electronics discounted by 10 per cent.Īpple products, like the iPad and iPod Touch, were just five per cent off. retailer announced its plans to leave Canada.ĭespite some complaints, the 30 per cent discount did exist - if shoppers were looking for cosmetics or women’s accessories. Liquidation sales began at Target’s 133 stores across the country after an Ontario court gave the go-ahead for the sale on Wednesday, less than a month after the U.S.
The elusive deeper discounts quickly became a conversation piece for customers who roamed the store aisles, discussing the savings, or lack of them, on their mobile phones. “I’m not super impressed, really,” said Paul Boychuk, who walked into a Toronto Target store expecting better savings. Store signs that promised discounts of up to 30 per cent yielded to shelves with price cuts mostly in the 10 to 20 per cent range. TORONTO - Bargain hunters who expected to unearth major deals at their local Target stores on Thursday, the first day of its liquidation sale, were sure to be disappointed once they got a look at the prices.
0 kommentar(er)
