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Originally Posted by Existentialist
The reason wasn't corporate, i can tell you that.
Anyway as far as I remember from working there, and I know things have changed since then, all unclaimed special orders were put on the shelves. I remember having unclaimed records that sat on our shelves for months. When you are dealing with items the company does not generally order in bulk, they order only one from a special supplier. Once hasting's has paid for it they are stuck with it. I assume it would be he same with blu-rays. Only big corporations like Wal-Mart, have the bargaining power to have merchandise fronted to them, or the ability to return unsold merchandise. In Hasting's case, correct me if I am wrong, as soon as they buy a blu-ray from say, one of Sony's distrubitors, it is immediately tallied as a sale.
While it may be the case you get return sheets, I believe they are only to be shipped to other stores for special orders, ect... or to be sent to the warehouse, never back to the supplier.
Again I could be wrong on some of this.
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Never said back to supplier, said back to DC in Ammy. DC handles most returns to vendor. Although UMVD titles do occasionally get to go back directly to them [that was fun for the year that corporate never bothered to update the shipping address for them in InfoWiz...].
However, you are wrong, not necessarily specifically about Hasting's, but regarding return unsold products. Hastings does buys some products outright, this is so they get said products and have a larger margin. That's why the cost numbers for alot of products in InfoWiz don't accurately reflect real cost to store, ya gotta look at the PNL for that really, and it's just so muddied and buried. It really depends on the title, you can actually notice which titles are which in the system though. The ones that they can't return at all go through the Markdown system instead of the return system for instance.
Of course, I really wouldn't expect a GSM to know that much about how IC worked
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