The Clearance Aisle

This past month Wal-Mart has had some items on clearance of interest to me. It’s mostly electronic items. By keeping a close eye on this aisle for a couple of weeks, I’ve been able to actually snag some good bargains.

What you need to keep in mind when shopping on the clearance aisle is that if there is a lot of one type of merchandise, then it will probably come down more in price. A Wii points bundle that included a classic controller glove and 2000 Wii points started out on clearance at $14.50. There were probably at least 50 of these available. I opted to watch and see if they moved at the price. They didn’t and within a few weeks they were marked down to $10. So, I bought one pack. There were still plenty of the bundles on clearance. They finally were marked down to $5, so I bought a few more. Now I have 6,000 Wii points and only spent as much I has would have on 2000 points.

You can’t wait for everything to marked even further down on clearance. There has to be a lot of the stock left. Still it’s worth a stroll down the clearance aisle just to check out the bargains as you never know what might be on sale.