Target General Deals Thread

[manwithnoname64]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

If I had a Target nearby, my wife could make that with groceries alone in a month.

As is -- currently $15 for two $70 purchases. First offer I've had in 3-4 months

Good point, never thought about it like that because I buy my groceries from Mariano’s (Kroger) and Costco.

[erixon20]

Originally Posted by FlamedLiquid

I got nothing

ME too! lol

[hariseldon]

Originally Posted by manwithnoname64

Good point, never thought about it like that because I buy my groceries from Mariano’s (Kroger) and Costco.

I'd love to have one of those in the area (25 miles away for Kroger and Publix, 50 miles for Costco/BJ). As is -- Walmart, Food Lion, and a couple lower end local/3 State regional groceries though the regional just opened a brand new store across the street from Walmart. Supposedly it's a nice level up from the other stores in the chain.

Lidl opened a store and it bombed and closed in less than 2 year
Small Aldi - barely hangs on though seems to have a small core of loyals

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

So I am at Target now. Killing time till I see The Batman.

Anyway I look in the small movie section they have. And most of the movies are gone. But i noticed they dropped the prices of a lot of stuff.

One of a few things happen.

They sold all the movies in those spots
They for whatever reason moved the movies on the shelf to change the tags
Or are making more room for books.

If the last option were true. Why would they change out the prices on the tags?

Buying stuff in stores anymore is getting more and more difficult.

[50strat54]

Big Box stores in the future will just have the New Release hit titles on the shelves like Spider-Man No Way Home and Fast 9

Smaller movies like Nomadland even though it won Best Picture will no longer even be brought into stores during its first release because the stores know it will not sell in the quantities that No Way Home will sell.

The amount of people that actually want to buy Nomadland on 4K or bluray are all here on this forum.

Target still sells a small amount of CDs [mainly Hit Product] and is stocking Vinyl because they've seen it sells.

Physical media is ending...the sky is falling but it has been looking like a slow death.

There will still be media in stores for a while but don't expect the stores to stock Drive My Car on release day. Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City yes, Drive My Car no.

Also the major studios will have the advantage in getting titles into stores.

Also all those Fox catalog titles? I really feel once they are gone Disney will not reprint most of them unless it's Star Wars or Die Hard.

[jkoffman]

I shifted to buying online over a decade ago and shopping for movies in stores is a disadvantage to me. I'm actually surprised so many here are still interested, especially at this point with such a small selection.

[kruse56]

Originally Posted by jkoffman

I shifted to buying online over a decade ago and shopping for movies in stores is a disadvantage to me. I'm actually surprised so many here are still interested, especially at this point with such a small selection.

I think a lot people still shop B&M because they are looking for mint condition slips or steelbooks.

[50strat54]

Originally Posted by jkoffman

I shifted to buying online over a decade ago and shopping for movies in stores is a disadvantage to me. I'm actually surprised so many here are still interested, especially at this point with such a small selection.

Stores in big cities like Los Angeles still get product but it has been shrinking. Walmart stocked The French Dispatch which may be the power of Disney Distribution.

Even though Best Buy has been slowly eliminating rows of blurays the last BF while smaller was really great. Quantities of every title and if you wanted to look for the best slip cover that was still possible.

They also had the treasure hunt of which store had the hard to find steelbooks [ZSJL and Kong v Godzilla]. As I already posted my Best Buy had them all in the back temporary inventory area in a box. Just had to look and ask.

Because of the great info from Forum Members I had the upc code and I think the BB inventory code, and then I went to an employee and he said oh yeah that's in stock and then after a quick look at the shelves we started hunting in the temporary inventory area and I asked if I could help and he said sure. First box I looked in had them...quantities.

BF was actually fun this year and great prices. There was B!tching over titles that weren't included but it was still really good in my opinion. Shawshank for $10 was my top BF title. Glad to find the ZSJL Steelbook too.

[jkoffman]

Originally Posted by kruse56

I think a lot people still shop B&M because they are looking for mint condition slips or steelbooks.

Yup. I don't care about those, superheroes, most blockbusters, etc. I mostly want smaller company releases for the movies themselves, and the major retail B&M stores have never had much on the shelf for me. But they do sell them online, so they do still get my business.

[Gold Ranger]

I like go to a store because I'm interested is seeing what's new on shelves. Not everything is listed or shows up online.
Look at the recent titles Planet Dune and Lizard vs Monkey.
Z Grade titles that would never get a real online presence.

[jkoffman]

Originally Posted by Gold Ranger

I like go to a store because I'm interested is seeing what's new on shelves. Not everything is listed or shows up online.
Look at the recent titles Planet Dune and Lizard vs Monkey.
Z Grade titles that would never get a real online presence.

I doubt they are of any interest to me, but what store sells those?

[JurassicBD]

Originally Posted by 50strat54

Big Box stores in the future will just have the New Release hit titles on the shelves like Spider-Man No Way Home and Fast 9

Smaller movies like Nomadland even though it won Best Picture will no longer even be brought into stores during its first release because the stores know it will not sell in the quantities that No Way Home will sell.

The amount of people that actually want to buy Nomadland on 4K or bluray are all here on this forum.

Target still sells a small amount of CDs [mainly Hit Product] and is stocking Vinyl because they've seen it sells.

Physical media is ending...the sky is falling but it has been looking like a slow death.

There will still be media in stores for a while but don't expect the stores to stock Drive My Car on release day. Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City yes, Drive My Car no.

Also the major studios will have the advantage in getting titles into stores.

Also all those Fox catalog titles? I really feel once they are gone Disney will not reprint most of them unless it's Star Wars or Die Hard.

Slow death is a gross understatement; considering how heavily the idea has been campaigned and propagated on the most impressionable and naive for what, 15 years now? Even Disney had to change their expectations, when physical hadn't died by 2012/2014?, like one of their execs forecast. You can't kill off an industry that's thrived for decades in only a few years, like they hoped, at least not without a war or virus and the subsequent economic collapse as an excuse. The rental market is no longer a threat to their profits from the collector market, and that was always the chief motivation for Hollywoods digital push. Not that they wouldn't love an all-digital world, which likely is their ultimate goal, but they might have to wait for the collector generations to die off to achieve it. So for now they seem content with nudging more and more to go digital with the same obvious market manipulation that they've always used and then some that aren't so obvious, careful not to actually encourage new growth of the physical market. That's where we are now, and we may be there for another decade. The times are so volatile from the effects of the pandemic and wars that it's hard to predict tomorrow. But, the market has stabilized greatly since the years of being flooded with rental surplus, driving down prices of genuinely collectible media far lower than Hollywood ever cared to sell it for. So Hollywood no longer sees the physical market as quite the out-of-their-control threat they did a decade ago.

As to your first point, we're already there for the most part, and have been for years, really, unless you count walmarts absurd bargain bins that nobody wants to try to dig through, just to save a couple bucks on the chance that they might find a surprise buried somewhere - it's tantamount to having an easter egg hunt for a plastic egg with a couple jellybeans inside.

[50strat54]

Regarding your avatar I'm 100% for digital. Love the combo packs with digital codes and I have been buying my favorite movies at the 4.99 price point. Just bought Mississippi Burning on itunes for 4.99. Digital is a fail safe for me, just in case I have to do a massive downsizing I'll still have the films digitally.

I stand by slow death just look at what's happening at Best Buy. That's what nailed it for me. I still buy lots of physical movies but as I wrote changes happen slowly "slow."

I really don't care what the industry does that has gotten us into this situation because I have no control of how companies do what they do. Just like I couldn't scream at music companies back in the 80s KEEP MAKING VINYL! Which through happenstance came back into vogue.

The companies are acting the way they act because they are a business.

But isn't it nice that Paramount for whatever reason is back in the bluray catalog business...I mean finally releasing Murder On The Orient Express and Warner Archive with Ivanhoe and Angels With Dirty Faces

AND THEN there's the standalone 4K release of Lawrence Of Arabia

But from 2010 to now the erosion is obvious in product in the stores.

There is very little impulse buying online for films.

[Samus Aran]

Does stuff that goes out of stock on Target.com ever come back? Wanted to get the 25th anniversary edition of Gran Turismo 7. Thought it would come back in stock today for release date but it never did. Not a big deal. I can always get it somewhere else.

[civiclx]

Originally Posted by Samus Aran

Does stuff that goes out of stock on Target.com ever come back? Wanted to get the 25th anniversary edition of Gran Turismo 7. Thought it would come back in stock today for release date but it never did. Not a big deal. I can always get it somewhere else.

I've gotten several emails for movies coming back in stock. I've seen some books come back in stock. Are you signed up to be notified by email if GT7 comes back in stock on their site?

[Samus Aran]

Originally Posted by civiclx

I've gotten several emails for movies coming back in stock. I've seen some books come back in stock. Are you signed up to be notified by email if GT7 comes back in stock on their site?

I signed up but I can't wait around forever. Other sites are starting to run out.

[Gold Ranger]

Originally Posted by jkoffman

I doubt they are of any interest to me, but what store sells those?

Walmart.

Also, great little movie a few months ago:
Slaxx
Movie about killer jeans!

[TaddGood]

So, I'm an idiot.
I have a $15 circle reward.
What does this mean? What can I do with this $15?

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

Originally Posted by 50strat54

Big Box stores in the future will just have the New Release hit titles on the shelves like Spider-Man No Way Home and Fast 9

Smaller movies like Nomadland even though it won Best Picture will no longer even be brought into stores during its first release because the stores know it will not sell in the quantities that No Way Home will sell.

The amount of people that actually want to buy Nomadland on 4K or bluray are all here on this forum.

Target still sells a small amount of CDs [mainly Hit Product] and is stocking Vinyl because they've seen it sells.

Physical media is ending...the sky is falling but it has been looking like a slow death.

There will still be media in stores for a while but don't expect the stores to stock Drive My Car on release day. Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City yes, Drive My Car no.

Also the major studios will have the advantage in getting titles into stores.

Also all those Fox catalog titles? I really feel once they are gone Disney will not reprint most of them unless it's Star Wars or Die Hard.

These are movies that came out not that long ago. Like Copshop or blue bayou. Those came out December and its start of March.

But seems yeah, not even new releases are safe. Just out that month it seems.

Also all those titles were Universal titles.

[hariseldon]

Originally Posted by TaddGood

So, I'm an idiot.
I have a $15 circle reward.
What does this mean? What can I do with this $15?

You;ve already earned it?

It's basically like a GiftCard -- at checkout you should have the option to apply the $15 to an order. It should have some sort of expiration date.