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Originally Posted by Phogg
Hastings stores were about the size of the Books-A-Million stores. They were good stores ten years ago, but the management of our local one changed maybe seven years ago. The bathrooms became always filthy and five years ago they outsourced the magazines and no longer carried a lot of titles that had been locally popular.
I have been checking the location here for a decent sale on inventory, but so far their sale prices are still way higher for boardgames than I would pay through Miniature Market or Cool Stuff Inc.
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WHen they liquidate (as is happening here) a liquidator takes over and raises the prices to non-sale prices and then marks them down. You'll have to wait until near closing for the prices to really go down. I just went through this with Hancock Fabrics--same deal. The liquidators took everything to full and inflated price and started with 10 percent discounts. They had several months to let people shop. It wasn't until the last month that I saw 70 and 80 percent off. By that time a lot of things were picked over, but I was lucky that my store was a consolidation spot for three other stores. That meant finding some real bargains.
Keep watching and stop in ever so often. There was one day each week when new prices would come out, but that didn't happen until the first month was over (they apparently wanted panicked buyers to grab material they needed for unfinished projects). Then, every Thurs a group of thing would go lower. Finally, everything was 50 percent or greater, but it was maddening waiting to see if something I wanted would finally go lower than 50 percent (because before the liquidation I had 50 percent of coupons that I always used so no way was I buying until it was GREATER than 50 percent!)
Good luck. There will be bargains, but it's not likely in the first few weeks!