Boots sale - now 90% off

skellyness

Own_My_Own wrote: »

It's got over 600 items. I have no idea why they do that. If they have had over 600 lines to sell why not just put them all on at the beginning of the 50% off sale. Do they not want to make any money ?

A lot of that stock may have sold at 50% off instead of 70/75%. Not everybody checks the site daily. I have looked at it maybe 2 or 3 times.
If the whole range had been available to see at that point I most probably would have made an order. I don't order a great deal from there and have actually left it because I couldn't make it to the £20 needed for store delivery. Had the whole range been available to see I probably would have made an order. And I expect there are others like me.
They are simply losing orders by all the staggering of lines available.

Personally I think it is to create hype so that they get more interest from potential future customers - I know I never used to be so bothered about the christmas range til I saw the 75 percent off sales last year; I mean look at the forum threads about it and stuff, plus I'm sure they still make their money back.

debndot

By any chance has anyone been to the norwich store lately and know if they have much left? wondering if its worth an early trip in the morning as even though most of what I want is in stock online at the moment, I'm sure come 4am it will be gone, thanks

surfsister

skellyness wrote: »

Personally I think it is to create hype so that they get more interest from potential future customers - I know I never used to be so bothered about the christmas range til I saw the 75 percent off sales last year; I mean look at the forum threads about it and stuff, plus I'm sure they still make their money back.

I think Boots like the publicity look at how many posts are one here, hotukdeals and Facebook to name a few - loads of free advertising! Also Boots has an almost wacky following now similar to Ikea; must all be good for them!

I think also they probably order stuff specifically for the sale added totheir normal order anyway and get it cheaper in the first place eg order 200,000 of an item and get it really cheap - then sell some full price, some 50% off and unload the rest at 75% off

luxor4t

Husband has WORK organised for the day, and nowhere near a Boots branch - cannot believe it :eek:

Thank goodness I can go instead - one of the many joys of early retirement.

He says hello to the ladies he met a few years back in the Leeds main branch on 75% day btw!

For some reason everybody in Swansea Quadrant was 'just looking'

chattmum

debndot wrote: »

By any chance has anyone been to the norwich store lately and know if they have much left? wondering if its worth an early trip in the morning as even though most of what I want is in stock online at the moment, I'm sure come 4am it will be gone, thanks

Hi fellow local

I did a wander around both castle mall and chapelfield yesterday and the mall is most def the best bet they had loads more big stuff and s&g and also 2 isles both sides of toys still including some really big stuff. Is there anything in particular you were after as I may remember if and where I saw what if that may help

chattmum

Katgrit wrote: »

I wrote this last year and it went down well so here it is again for all you newbies!


For those of you new to this heres what happens, by law, every single year:

1. By day of sale in Jan this thread will be up to approx 157 pages.
2. Every other post is a newbie asking which Wed the sale starts on.
3. Loads of people swear blind that last year it started a week earlier than it
actually did.
4. Each Tuesday's posts contain details of someone's sister's neighbour's friend's
boyfriend's Mum, who knows someone who works in a Boots store, who swears
blind its DEFINITELY starting that Wednesday.
5. A few hardcore MSE'ers stay up til 3am on the website just incase it does start.
6. Wed morning: sale doesn't start. A few individuals who didn't know are still
sitting outside their local branch refusing to believe it in the vain hope the staff are
still "putting the signs up".
7. There's always ONE store who c0cks up and accidentally DOES start a week early. And the tills don't knock the discount off but the enthusiastic SA's overrides the til to give the discount, until the manager re-reads his fax from head office. So one lucky
forumite always gets lucky by accident.
8. The Tuesday evening before it DOES start theres always at least one grumpy git
store manager who swears blind they "won't be having a 75% sale at all as they
haven't sold enough at 50%". And he's been told this on a fax from head office, so
he knows for definite. Honest guv.
9. Someone's dog's sister's collegue's friend's Mum overhears 2 SA's chatting
about the need to put the signs up that evening after the store is closed. She asks
SA1 who gives her an icy stare and denies all knowledge. SA2 later sidles up to her
in the shampoo isle and gives her a knowing wink and a whisper of "Are you a
friend of Martin? Don't let on I told you but it IS tomorrow".
10. Boots stores are full of MSE'ers casing the joint, sizing up whats left and
deciding on their route round the isles/plan of attack for the morning.
11. The lovely MSE'er whos flat overlooks a Boots store does a reccy in her pyjamas around midnight to double check the signs are up.
12. Half of us stay up to buy online. About 2am Boots put up "the holding screen"
which is a picture of Skeletor with a bad fake tan, and giant white teeth, in a ski
hat. Everyone gets excited. Website crashes completely.
13. 4am Site back online, complete with Mr FakeTanTeeth. Those who are able (and still awake) fill their baskets ready for when 75% discounts kick in. Website crashes, holding screen back up.
14. 6am. Website back, discount applied, sales goes live but all baskets back to
being empty. People start frantically refilling baskets.
15. 6.01am. Website crashes.
16. 7am Queues start forming outside Boots stores. Always a fat chav in leggings
accompanied by 2 shopping trollies who is first in the queue. She wants everything
"for the kiddies charity party next year, you cant say no at such a good price".
Translate this as "it'll be going on ebay or at the boot sale".
17. 8/9am stores open. As doors unlock staff look a bit disgusted that people have
been desperate enough to queue. Stampede into store. Everyone gets seriously
pee'd off with the ignoramous with the trolley who is sweeping entire shelves of
goodies off in one fell swoop, having blocked off the isle at both ends.
18.Think all female rubgy scrum.
19. Bemused husbands/dads stood at ends of isles to recieve full baskets/trollies/
bags and act as guardian while wife goes back for more.
20. Small child crushed under weight of Gok sets placed ontop of pram while
Mother scrabbles under shelving for dropped advantage card.
21. Innocent passing elderly couple who just called in for some fibogel get caught
up crush but too overcome with amazement of discount to complain.
22. 9.30am Queues at tils bigger than the 8am queues outside. People staggering
out of stores laden down with bags, like a heat of Worlds Strongest Man.
23. 10am. Boots run out of carrier bags.
24. 11am. Website back up but everything sold out.
25. 1pm. Stores everywhere sold out. Shelves empty like desecration after a swarm
of locusts has decended, bar some Yardley gift sets and half the contents of a Fern hatbox.
26. A lucky MSE'er who forgot all about it just happens to wander past a local Boots store on her way back to work from the a dentist's appointment. The 75% sale is on, but they have stumbled upon the only Boots in the country that no-one else has been to. Rows and rows of No7 gift sets and plenty of Joules bags left. No pushing, no shoving, the whole Boots store to herself, with SA's kindly holding her bags for her.
27. Thats it. Done and dusted. All over for another year!

Thanks for the reminder to take bags I forgot in previous years and the sa's in boots had been out to Poundland etc to buy bin bags to put people stuff in lol. Now where did I hide my ikea bags hmmmmmm

moneysaver890

Anyone know if barnsley store has been restocked? Wasn't very much left at the weekend. Also if I take things back I've previously bought in the 50% sale in the morning (using advantage card points) will the points be refunded straight back onto my card?

CatherineT36

chattmum wrote: »

Hi fellow local

I did a wander around both castle mall and chapelfield yesterday and the mall is most def the best bet they had loads more big stuff and s&g and also 2 isles both sides of toys still including some really big stuff. Is there anything in particular you were after as I may remember if and where I saw what if that may help

Just thought i'd say hello to my fellow Norwich bargain hunters!
I got to Chapelfield last year after dropping the kids off about 9am and the shop was really quiet. by the time i left about an hour later, it was getting a little more busy. I didn't try the Mall.
I'm not sure which one to go too. Are there any Boots extract stuff in either?

debndot

chattmum wrote: »

Hi fellow local

I did a wander around both castle mall and chapelfield yesterday and the mall is most def the best bet they had loads more big stuff and s&g and also 2 isles both sides of toys still including some really big stuff. Is there anything in particular you were after as I may remember if and where I saw what if that may help

Lovely thanks for that, I'm mainly after s&g sets and kids clothes if any about so could be worth the trip.Debating whether to go early of just risk going at a reasonable time, never been to the 75% sale so don't know how busy it will be. Thanks again :-)

CatherineT36

debndot wrote: »

Lovely thanks for that, I'm mainly after s&g sets and kids clothes if any about so could be worth the trip.Debating whether to go early of just risk going at a reasonable time, never been to the 75% sale so don't know how busy it will be. Thanks again :-)

Boots at Longwater also had quite a few sets left at the weekend as did riverside