On Mon, 06 Nov 2017 09:36:56 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> Sorry. I left a vital part out. In any one shopping trip, you were only
>> allowed to buy three of any one item. So if I wanted more than three, I
>> would have to go back on another day. Now that didn't mean that I'd be able
>> to get any. In those days, I drank Tab soda. And it was only available in 6
>> packs. I'd buy three, go back for three more and there would be none. I just
>> learned to buy that elsewhere most of the time. At any rate, I presume they
>> put the limit of three to cut down on shelf clearing because they did only
>> restock once a week.
>
>When stores offer a good sale, they put a limit on what you can
>buy so people like you that stockpile sale items won't buy it all
>at one time. I used to have a neighbor that tried to do that and
>they limited her too.
>
>The reason: many people will show up for a good sale price. But
>if hoarders buy it all, others will quickly get tired of going to
>a store specifically for a sale item that is not in stock.
>
>They limit the amount of sale items so they don't lose many other
>customers.
>
>I see this all the time at my grocery store. Weekly sales start
>on Wednesdays. If it's a really good one, you better go there
>that day or at least early Thursday. If not that shelf space is
>empty and not restocked yet. Of course you can always get a "rain
>check" but still makes people mad to go and not get what they
>wanted.

I can't remember the last time I saw a limit posted for sale items. I
remember quantity limits from some forty years ago when transportation
and warehousing wasn't very sophisticated so store managers didn't
want to run out. But nowadays a quick email to the regional warehouse
and a semi truckload arrives within a couple hours... these days semi
truckloads of merchandise arrives several times a day. It's pretty
rare for a store to run out of sale merchandise, it happens with some
items, usually items shipped by independant companies, like eggs,
bread, milk, chips, coldcuts, produce and other items, but still it's
rare. The last time the local store ran out of a sale item it was
Diet Sprite, but that's delivered directly from the Coca Cola
warehouse... but no biggie, they gave me Diet 7-Up at the same sale
price.