Skip + Hank: Six-year-old counsel of questionable value....the package says "8 years and up".... :)...
HardRocker: TV promo to be associated with local programming re: fishing... One of David's posts, some days/weeks past, has some more info...look up his profile and you'll see all his posts which will make it easier to find the one you need. I gather the commercials will not be "national."
Dennis: Pretty good thoughts...healthy skepticism is good IMO. We could wait for earnings every 90 days and draw conclusions from that, or we might be able to do some of our own homework to learn about sales trends beforehand. See below.
To All: re: inventory readings at retail....Perhaps, just perhaps, if we can together gather a nationwide sampling of store activity by product, then we might be able to get a better idea of just how faddish or not these sales are. Wouldn't be a small effort, but the value of it could be great. Strictly volunteer of course. I'm in St. Pete FL...I could visit three or four retail locations on a 10-day frequency...probably establish a "working relationship" with a clerk or toy manager...learning when they expect shipments, and monitoring what's on the pegs, taking actual inventory counts by product. If enough of us did this, in enough parts of the country, we could get a pretty good idea of how the "public" is responding to these new and established products. From that, we would be better able to discern sales trends by product, consumer acceptance, faddishness, staying powerof the earnings. Not a short term project. If you're interested, contact me at ced@gte.net....give me your location, how many stores you could check, etc. Fifty of us could really map this out. Chaz. |
