Why Wednesday morning is the best time to shop Baby Gap!



A reader who is both a nanny and Baby Gap employee shares her insights on the best time to shop for deals at Baby Gap:


Most markdowns occur on Tuesday night, effective Wednesday morning. On rare occasions we have Sunday morning markdowns.

Most new items go on sale within a month(but how
the item sells well determine when it gets marked down). The items that end
in .97 are at the lowest price the company will give them. The company
calls this the kill price. After 14 days at the .97 price, the company
gives each store the authority based on their own sell through to cut that
price in half(ig. $14.97 after 14 days goes to $7.97). These prices can be
recognized by a green or yellow slash through the barcode and a date on the
back of the tag. Again these kill prices are determined by the management
at each store, and if a store doesn't have the size you need they can try to
find it for you at another store, but the store may have not killed the
price. Basically, the price is killed to get rid of it!

The best time to shop is obviously on a Wednesday morning, however, if
you have the company credit card( Gapcard) the first tuesday of the month
you get 10% off everything. The credit card is actually a pretty good deal
because the consumer saves 15-20% off at time of opening and for ever $250
they add up between Gap, Old Navy, and Banana Repulic they get a $10 reward
certificate to use at any of the 3 stores. As you know you can add $250 up
pretty fast! The company has also put alot of money into giving credit card
holders coupons and discounts continuously.(their goal is to reward the
faithful customer).

As far as other ways to save there is always the 10% discount you
can get from taking the register survey(it prints out every other customer).
If you have friends or family working there, they can give you invites to
the Friends and Family day event, which I believe currently is twice a
year(before back to school and then at Holiday). This invite offers usually
30% off everything you buy for a 3-day weekend (dates given by company)!

Posted: Fri - March 16, 2007 at 11:30 AM          

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