Walmart Canada Sales and Clearance

[TargetZero]

5 hours ago, Veegs said:

Had a good morning - one WM had nothing at all on clearance but did shows signs of reorganizing of the section so I'll be checking back every Friday after my daughter's gymnastics until they sort things out. Second WM was sweet. Train Stations for $40, Demolition Sites for $50, Deep Sea Helicopter $30, RAPTOR ESCAPES! $25 Swamp Police Crooks Hideout for $40. Rainforest Animals $10 and then some smaller sets (the $15.99 ones...Swamp police and Pirates and such) were a flat $5.

This WM also has 24 Scooby Mansions and 16 Spaceports in the clearance area but aren't marked down yet. I'll be monitoring like crazy, or I can try to PM. I didn't have my phone but will go back later to take pictures of the tags and then I was going to try to combine my pictures of the price tags with my receipt from this morning to get TRU to price match. I was thinking about trying to clear my TRU of the Demo site at $50. I can text those photos to other Canadians if you want to try this route. It might not be until late afternoon, but I'm happy to help if anyone is interested.

Anyone else get different sets on sale? 

wow, thats nice

[Sandwraith]

Couple finds (but no buys) on my way home tonight, clearance section here was really small (less than an endcap):

Friends Heartlake Mall $50

Crooks Hideout $45

Ninjago Morro Dragon $50 (might have been $45)

There were some princess sets too in the clearance section, but didn't bother scanning. Any of you happen to be at the Oakville location tonight?! There was someone there knowing what to look for/scan while i was browsing

 

[megahuts]

So, in the interest of sharing, I had an informative discussion with a couple Walmart workers today.

Key takeaways:

1 - Walmart gives each store X amount of "clearance dollars" each month. They are then divided between all of the departments. Then the department managers allot the clearance dollars to individual discontinued items, which means they can only put one or two high value Lego sets on sale, because they only have about ~$500.

2 - that aisle of random junk / toys. Those are the discontinued toys that they no longer have shelf space for. However, that doesn't mean they are going to go on sale anytime soon, due to limitation 1. Those discontinued items will just sit there until someone makes the decision to apply their limited fund to move the product. Lego is expensive and takes up limited space.

3 - there is one final way for Lego to go on clearance. Lego themselves tell the stores to put it on clearance. The store employees have no idea when this will happen. This is when you can see chain wide clearance, probably on low sale sets.

So, this means even though one Walmart has something on clearance, it doesn't mean the other Walmarts have it at that price. And this also explains why they won't price match other Walmart store clearance prices (since those discounts are at the discretion of each store).

The final key item - check your local Walmarts on the first / second day of each month for new discounts.

[janet lin]

useful ,thanks.

[tacsniper]

1 hour ago, megahuts said:

So, in the interest of sharing, I had an informative discussion with a couple Walmart workers today.

Key takeaways:

1 - Walmart gives each store X amount of "clearance dollars" each month. They are then divided between all of the departments. Then the department managers allot the clearance dollars to individual discontinued items, which means they can only put one or two high value Lego sets on sale, because they only have about ~$500.

2 - that aisle of random junk / toys. Those are the discontinued toys that they no longer have shelf space for. However, that doesn't mean they are going to go on sale anytime soon, due to limitation 1. Those discontinued items will just sit there until someone makes the decision to apply their limited fund to move the product. Lego is expensive and takes up limited space.

I've been told of the same information as well, thus, why Walmart clearance YMMV.

[TargetZero]

1 hour ago, Sandwraithx157 said:

Couple finds (but no buys) on my way home tonight, clearance section here was really small (less than an endcap):

Friends Heartlake Mall $50

Crooks Hideout $45

Ninjago Morro Dragon $50 (might have been $45)

There were some princess sets too in the clearance section, but didn't bother scanning. Any of you happen to be at the Oakville location tonight?! There was someone there knowing what to look for/scan while i was browsing

 

friends maill at 50$, its very good no? I would take this ahh my walmart sucks

[Stragus]

I stopped by two Walmarts in Montreal (Langelier, Anjou) and there was absolutely nothing of interest.

In a Toys R Us (Anjou), they had two "Ultra Agents - Hurricane Heist (70164)" for 24.98 CAD, compared to a MSRP of 90 CAD. There were several other clearance stickers in front of empty shelves ("X-Men vs. The Sentinel (76022)" for 34.98 would have been nice).

[gravtation]

There's a terrible bug with every post that megahuts  does. everytime I receive the email twice .. is there any way that this problem can be solved !? thanks ..

[megahuts]

There's a terrible bug with every post that megahuts  does. everytime I receive the email twice .. is there any way that this problem can be solved !? thanks ..

That's just because I am awesome. I have been having trouble with Tapatalk unsubscribing me from threads, so double email ain't too bad.

On topic, I noticed the Lego Birds set is available on Walmart. Not on sale, but it seems to be popular in the toys r us thread.

[Sandwraith]

19 hours ago, Sandwraithx157 said:

Couple finds (but no buys) on my way home tonight, clearance section here was really small (less than an endcap):

Friends Heartlake Mall $50

Crooks Hideout $45

Ninjago Morro Dragon $50 (might have been $45)

There were some princess sets too in the clearance section, but didn't bother scanning. Any of you happen to be at the Oakville location tonight?! There was someone there knowing what to look for/scan while i was browsing

 

Forgot to add 2 more to this list:

Ender Dragon - $50 (yawn)

Elves Skyra’s Mysterious Sky Castle - $50

17 hours ago, TargetZero said:

friends maill at 50$, its very good no? I would take this ahh my walmart sucks

For sure! I'm just sort of on a spending freeze as i recently lost my car in an accident (other drivers fault). So i've got a chunk of change tied up right now  I'd still pick up some stuff if i'm passionate about the set/theme, but none of these tickle my fancy.

[peenutz]

Sorry to hear about the accident Sandwraithx157. Hopefully you're ok!

[Sandwraith]

Just now, peenutz said:

Sorry to hear about the accident Sandwraithx157. Hopefully you're ok!

Thanks! been a few weeks now, mostly everything worked out, no injuries to speak of either.

Nice to have this hobby to sell off a bunch of stock in a pinch and make a couple extra thousand for times like these!

[TargetZero]

9 minutes ago, Sandwraithx157 said:

Forgot to add 2 more to this list:

Ender Dragon - $50 (yawn)

Elves Skyra’s Mysterious Sky Castle - $50

For sure! I'm just sort of on a spending freeze as i recently lost my car in an accident (other drivers fault). So i've got a chunk of change tied up right now  I'd still pick up some stuff if i'm passionate about the set/theme, but none of these tickle my fancy.

Yeah, i understand this. I cannot buy unlimited too. Well too many deals this past month, im at 0 budget! for at least 1-2 weeks for legos but I never see deals like this at my walmart... 30% max. My walmart is pretty lame on deals

 

 

 

 

Edited February 6, 2016 by TargetZero

[Stragus]

12 minutes ago, Sandwraithx157 said:

Ender Dragon - $50 (yawn)
Friends Heartlake Mall $50
Elves Skyra’s Mysterious Sky Castle - $50

For sure! I'm just sort of on a spending freeze as i recently lost my car in an accident (other drivers fault). So i've got a chunk of change tied up right now  I'd still pick up some stuff if i'm passionate about the set/theme, but none of these tickle my fancy.

Darn... Sandwraithx157, we have done this before, would you perhaps want to pick some of that stuff, debox all the sets, and ship them to me?

I am very interested in these 3 sets (assuming quantities at least 6). What kind of commission would you like for such a service?

[dah_hunter]

Well i have been to the 5 walmarts around me. and non have any lego on sale.. nor well they price match the Posted receipt.. 

 

Oh well. im not supposed to be buying Lego this month anyways. 

[barakamon]

Walmarts in Manitoba apparently only price-match receipts from other Manitoba Walmarts... So no luck whatsoever in my part of the woods. 

[nami]

So far I've only been able to get the following:

3 Jokerland  $75   ..more available

3 Quinjet  $50       ..more available

9 Antman $15 (nice surprise to see these at all)

Passed on 50% off Ninjago and 50% off City deep sea exploration.   Would be nice to find some 50% off Star Wars. Several

Walmarts in the area are still awaiting their $ allowance from head office.

[Gray2010]

On February 4, 2016 at 6:24 AM, megahuts said:

Date included.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!  I was able to price match the jokerland for $70.  My son and I will have a great time building it!

 

john

[TargetZero]

19 minutes ago, nami said:

So far I've only been able to get the following:

3 Jokerland  $75   ..more available

3 Quinjet  $50       ..more available

9 Antman $15 (nice surprise to see these at all)

Passed on 50% off Ninjago and 50% off City deep sea exploration.   Would be nice to find some 50% off Star Wars. Several

Walmarts in the area are still awaiting their $ allowance from head office.

9 ant-man at 15$..wow

if there is more, i would buy them at give you a commission fee!! lol

 

[ositosoto]

20 minutes ago, nami said:

So far I've only been able to get the following:

3 Jokerland  $75   ..more available

3 Quinjet  $50       ..more available

9 Antman $15 (nice surprise to see these at all)

Passed on 50% off Ninjago and 50% off City deep sea exploration.   Would be nice to find some 50% off Star Wars. Several

Walmarts in the area are still awaiting their $ allowance from head office.

Wow very nice. Good for those Antman..Were are you located?

[nami]

4 minutes ago, ositosoto said:

Wow very nice. Good for those Antman..Were are you located?

This was in Winnipeg.

[nami]

10 minutes ago, TargetZero said:

9 ant-man at 15$..wow

if there is more, i would buy them at give you a commission fee!! lol

 

That was it for the Antman......Sorry.   Must of been backroom stock as I didn't see them at this store previously.

[Zelgazra]

7 hours ago, dah_hunter said:

Well i have been to the 5 walmarts around me. and non have any lego on sale.. nor well they price match the Posted receipt.. 

 

Oh well. im not supposed to be buying Lego this month anyways. 

You're in the Vancouver area right? Mind listing which locations, or shooting me a PM? I was going to go out tomorrow and check on some... but if you've already done the legwork I can stay home and work on ebay listings instead... Cheers mate! 

[dah_hunter]

Im out in Langley. 

So thats

Langley

2 Abbotsford Stores

Mission

and Chilliwack.  

[Jaykay21]

Keeping an eye on the Ottawa area and I did notice Lego sets placed in the clearance areas but no mark downs yet. Saw:

batman joker land

guardians of the galaxy Milano

the city spaceship

Darkseid battle

star wars transporter with the tie fighters

sorry but I don't know the actual names! Anyway, looks like they'll be placed on clearance fairly soon and it seems that similar sets might also be placed on discount in other parts of the country. Are any of these sets worth buying for investing...? Because they probably didn't end up in clearance due to being a hot seller lol

Also, hoping for Star Wars to go on clearance especially the overpriced tie fighter!