Value Village upping media prices
I went to Value Village to check out their CDs a couple of days ago. This was the store on Hastings Street in Vancouver. They have some new system of selling CDs. All the CDs have these price stickers on them, some of which are later difficult to remove with Goo Gone and some cause problems when opening the CD cases.
The price stickers seem to be color coded, though there is no logic to this. The stickers for $1.99 (the former price for all CDs, when there were no price stickers) are usually white, but there are other colors as well, including purple, which seems to mean "really expensive CDs."
Some of these "really expensive CDs" which had labels colored other than white were $2.99, $3.99 and even $5.99. There was a Barbra Streisand CD of no particular significance for the last amount. There were other non-$1.99 CDs which had no actual CD in the case. I guess someone was PO'd over the new pricing and just stole the CD.
Anyway, I went to the Victoria Drive store in Vancouver later in the day just to see if this new pricing system was just in the Hastings store. I thought maybe someone working for that store had a clever idea because they knew so much about CDs that they could make the store more money ... sort of like the person who knows so much about "vintage" books at most Value Villages which are usually utter trash and have no relationship to what these books are really worth, which is usually peanuts.
BUT ... the Victoria Drive store had the same price sticker system, which was even more disorganized than the one on Hastings. There was actually a copy of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" (a 2-CD set) for $7.99!
These are almost all used CDs, you realize, though many are in very good condition. I sort of wondered why this system has come into effect ... just like I wondered why Value Village upped the price of LP records to $2.99 a while ago (the same price as some of the Salvation Army stores in the Vancouver area) ... maybe because LPs are the new hot audio item, they are ahead of CDs in sales according to some reports, blah blah blah. (Yeah, but typical LPs at Value Village are -- to use this term again -- utter trash and in horrible condition)
Maybe Value Village upped the CD prices because they want to make money, because the pandemic has hit the store hard? I sort of doubt this, because, as a friend suggested, because of the pandemic, lots of people stayed home and cleaned up their houses, and threw out crap -- including CDs -- which they gave to Value Village FOR NOTHING so they could sell and give chicken feed to local charities as well as seemingly now make more big profits for themselves!
The price stickers seem to be color coded, though there is no logic to this. The stickers for $1.99 (the former price for all CDs, when there were no price stickers) are usually white, but there are other colors as well, including purple, which seems to mean "really expensive CDs."
Some of these "really expensive CDs" which had labels colored other than white were $2.99, $3.99 and even $5.99. There was a Barbra Streisand CD of no particular significance for the last amount. There were other non-$1.99 CDs which had no actual CD in the case. I guess someone was PO'd over the new pricing and just stole the CD.
Anyway, I went to the Victoria Drive store in Vancouver later in the day just to see if this new pricing system was just in the Hastings store. I thought maybe someone working for that store had a clever idea because they knew so much about CDs that they could make the store more money ... sort of like the person who knows so much about "vintage" books at most Value Villages which are usually utter trash and have no relationship to what these books are really worth, which is usually peanuts.
BUT ... the Victoria Drive store had the same price sticker system, which was even more disorganized than the one on Hastings. There was actually a copy of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" (a 2-CD set) for $7.99!
These are almost all used CDs, you realize, though many are in very good condition. I sort of wondered why this system has come into effect ... just like I wondered why Value Village upped the price of LP records to $2.99 a while ago (the same price as some of the Salvation Army stores in the Vancouver area) ... maybe because LPs are the new hot audio item, they are ahead of CDs in sales according to some reports, blah blah blah. (Yeah, but typical LPs at Value Village are -- to use this term again -- utter trash and in horrible condition)
Maybe Value Village upped the CD prices because they want to make money, because the pandemic has hit the store hard? I sort of doubt this, because, as a friend suggested, because of the pandemic, lots of people stayed home and cleaned up their houses, and threw out crap -- including CDs -- which they gave to Value Village FOR NOTHING so they could sell and give chicken feed to local charities as well as seemingly now make more big profits for themselves!
