Archived Goodbye Dollar Spot!

[JustJoe]

After two consecutive weeks of seasonal salavge (or did one spot go last week too?) I'm sick and tired of One Spot. Sure, I buy stuff out of there but I can always go to Dollar Tree and find most of the same items. We send One Spot salvage on the salvage pallet and it is a huge hassle. I pulled a train of 5 carts back to receiving when we did One Spot and brought a pallet back to seasonal when PLU BTS hit the other day.
Any plan that frees up 8-16 hours for price change in a week is a welcome in my book.

 

[RhettB]

After two consecutive weeks of seasonal salavge (or did one spot go last week too?) I'm sick and tired of One Spot. Sure, I buy stuff out of there but I can always go to Dollar Tree and find most of the same items. We send One Spot salvage on the salvage pallet and it is a huge hassle. I pulled a train of 5 carts back to receiving when we did One Spot and brought a pallet back to seasonal when PLU BTS hit the other day.
Any plan that frees up 8-16 hours for price change in a week is a welcome in my book.

I'm not sure about this year, but the last 2 years we donated our BTS salvage to local groups geared toward bettering education for disadvantaged youth.

 

[doxxszn]

holy hell id the happiest person alive if they really got rid of this. especially before christmas. i wonder what theyll do what the space.

 

[redeye58]

I'm sure they've already got something in mind.

 

[Logistics princess]

Anybody been able to get any solid info yet?

 

[Guest]

Solid info? What's that?

 

[RetailWorld]

It really depends on the area....my store can barely keep One-Spot instock. Those impulse buy items fly off the shelf.

It should be a store-to-store decision on which stores keep what. While One-Spot is a pain to push/maintain...it honestly does boost the basket size in my store.

 

[Voicetarget]

Big disadvantage to rid of dollar spot... big sales driver theyd be losing. I dont think its happening everywhere.

 

[Elandora]

One spot is on the pre tie schedule for 11/1. Havent heard any news of it being discontinued or removed at my store....And its on the adjacency calendar with POG titles.

 

[RhettB]

The new roll out guide is in. Did not read it yet.

 

[squirrely]

The new roll out guide is in. Did not read it yet.

I saw it today. It's changing to "Bullseye's Playground". The two shelves that make the L shape will have the toy like items. The center shelves will have nicer, bigger items. The prices will now be $1-$10.

It looks A LOT nicer and easier to maintain.

 

[redeye58]

I remember years ago when we carried the cool kids play sets.
They weren't name brand but really need stuff at a good price.
There was a fairly big grocery play set for only $10 & a good-sized truck set for the same price.

 

[ClearanceMaster]

I saw it today. It's changing to "Bullseye's Playground". The two shelves that make the L shape will have the toy like items. The center shelves will have nicer, bigger items. The prices will now be $1-$10.

It looks A LOT nicer and easier to maintain.

Kind of excited about this. Hadn't heard anything about this yet other than here but seems like it will be easier to salvage

 

[Dragonlady]

I was told that it will be used for seasonal items--toys for Christmas, exercise gear for January, grilling stuff in the summer. Like that.

 

[daninnj]

I was told that it will be used for seasonal items--toys for Christmas, exercise gear for January, grilling stuff in the summer. Like that.

Must be like what double entrance Targets already have.

 

[LogisticsFox]

Must be like what double entrance Targets already have.

Kind of but it's 99.9% food stuff and vendor product. Plus it tends to be the first place I start to flex when I need to get stuff out of the back.

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

Then, the vendor fails to keep it full, at my store.

 

[LogisticsFox]

asants.. My cartweel is primo real-estate since it sees at least 85% of checklane foot traffic. It's great for the impulse buys and it's my big persuasion point for getting vendors to play nice.

 

[BlueSide]

There was a small Redwire about calenders and it mentioned them being in See Spot Save. It also said they'd be here around Dec. 27 so I don't think dollar spot is going anywhere soon.

 

[SnorlaxTM]

Big disadvantage to rid of dollar spot... big sales driver theyd be losing. I dont think its happening everywhere.

I dunno about big sales driver all I find are pages torn from coloring books, empty packages galore and broken items there.

 

[Signkitty]

There was a small Redwire about calenders and it mentioned them being in See Spot Save. It also said they'd be here around Dec. 27 so I don't think dollar spot is going anywhere soon.

I saw the new book for the set up. It's still the same idea just $1-$10 and fancier.

 

[STLinMaking]

Bye Bye Dollar Spot....... Hello Bullseye's playground!

 

[hannahlouwho]

I saw the new book for the set up. It's still the same idea just $1-$10 and fancier.

I can see it now.
Me: *rings up $10 item*
Guest: *freaking the f*ck out* THAT WAS IN THE DOLLAR SPOT ITS A DOLLAR!!!

 

[OffYaPhone]

I can see it now.
Me: *rings up $10 item*
Guest: *freaking the f*ck out* THAT WAS IN THE DOLLAR SPOT ITS A DOLLAR!!!

LOL Had this happen a couple of times with the $5 items they put in my store -- nowhere near the $5 sign that's supposed to be over the top of it.

 

[sher]

They never changed the signing in my store (assuming it should have been changed) so it still says $1 or $3. No mention of $5 so everyone's always like "but it was in the dollar area..."