SirMossyBloke
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Target making bad decisions? You don't say!
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It appears Target has made a horrendous business decision (regarding Garth Brooks)
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orthodoxy1095
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What do politics have to do with anything? Garth Brooks was a massive crossover hit, one of the best-selling artists of all time and known to have at least some liberal politics. The biggest idiocy to this is that it seems very untimely, since Garth isn't the name he once was.
oneils
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I'd say 2007. His hits collection sold like gangbusters back then. A 10 disc collection for 30 bucks might be enticing to those fans lol!
Had to look this up, wtf?
You were in 2 different Targets on the same day?
teruterubozu
Member
It's Minneapolis.
blame space
Banned
i got sets with low prices 😂
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
He's the guy who ruined country music by modernizing it in the '90s.
Here's an SNL sketch from 1998 about it!
https://www.hulu.com/watch/831639
(Warning: Hulu)
Jeevesmeister
Banned
I'm shocked people are still talking about this old news Brooks when Chris Gaines is the future! You can't find his CD anywhere! He's sold out across the nation! Chris Gaines is the future!
wrestleman
Member
I worked at a Target for the holiday season and we sold plenty of these fucking things. That said, we still had tons of them left when I got laid off.
Hero_of_the_Day
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I actually bought the Chris Gaines album for $1.50 a while back. I still haven't actually listened to it, but I'm curious to hear it after all these years.
Tom Nook
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In San Jose, CA there's like over 10 target stores not far from each other.
first one was out of bananas
Silent Chief
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I thought this would be about Target Canada.
They lost several billions on this. A large Target store in my area was under renovation for over a year and they decided to pull out months before the grand opening.
Couple of millions? Yeah, big deal.
They lost several billions on this. A large Target store in my area was under renovation for over a year and they decided to pull out months before the grand opening.
Couple of millions? Yeah, big deal.
H.Cornerstone
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I don't know why, but I find this to be hilarious.
Yeah, I think you probably could of gotten away with something like this in 07, because it seemed a lot of "legacy" artists hadn't yet embraced iTunes yet. Granted they were holdouts for sure and only the most dedicated fans would buy the sets, but it still mafr some business sense, now though...
Jeevesmeister
Banned
It's the best damn rock album I've heard in thirty years! Aerosmith has nothing on Chris Gaines! NeoGAF should become NeoGAINES until we get a new Chris Gaines album!
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
I like Chris Gaines' cover of "Get Together" called "Right Now".
Also, I didn't know Garth Brooks was still around.
Also, I didn't know Garth Brooks was still around.
Rats Off To Ya
Banned
Oh my god this is amazing.
I have some errands to run tomorrow, might swing by Target just to witness this majesty for myself.
I have some errands to run tomorrow, might swing by Target just to witness this majesty for myself.
A run on Garth Brooks and bananas?
Hero_of_the_Day
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He "retired" for a good number of years to be with his family. He put out his last album before retiring in 2001, and didn't come back with a new album until 2014.
Marty Chinn
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I thought this was going to be about how Target finally closed the door on the exploit that allowed the 5% discount from the Red Card being applied to your total online purchase even if you pay a portion of it with gift cards. I'm sad to see that one go.
Why is this odd?
Why is this odd?
oneils
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Tickets to his vegas show were starting at 250 by the end, in 2014 or so, and that was due to his influence. Otherwise wynn would have probably doubled the price. The dude is literally bigger than Elvis!
I totally wanna see the Gaines tour, though. I'm a much bigger fan of that! Maybe they can stock 100 copies per store.
Ninja Scooter
Member
I noticed this at my Target last week as well. I think it's only on clearance by like $5 or so though.
Xyrmellon
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I never said I thought it would put them out of business, but they're already on clearance and the way Target does discounts I can see them 7 or 8 bucks in a week or two, cause they're still not selling. They will take a huge hit on these.
Also, I find the whole situation incedibly funny, and those that took offense at my title--every thread doesn't have to be doom and gloom.
Also, I find the whole situation incedibly funny, and those that took offense at my title--every thread doesn't have to be doom and gloom.
Jeevesmeister
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Garth Brooks died in 2001 after taking Seth McFarlane's flight to New York. Chris Gaines is subverting the norms of rock music as we know it by re-adopting the persona of his former evil twin brother, Garth Brooks, and if you play the Target compilation backwards, it generates the QR code to download the new Chris Gaines album, Chemtrail Huffin'
The Faceless Master
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that's funny because last xmas there was a woman here (Georgia) complaining that the boxset was sold out and when everyone nationwide was struggling to find the PSVR there were several in stock. they need to calculate demand more regionally...
edit: hrm... http://www.billboard.com/articles/c...rooks-target-exclusive-ultimate-box-set-sales
edit: hrm... http://www.billboard.com/articles/c...rooks-target-exclusive-ultimate-box-set-sales
RandomExpletive
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Jeez that title made me think it was something like Target Canada again
This is so much worse
This is so much worse
newtypepilot
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I thought this is about Target Canada. Nothing can top that disaster.
Hero_of_the_Day
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He has some alright stuff, and some terrible stuff for sure. Live version of The Thunder Rolls is fucking awesome.
AlimNassor
Banned
That base deck being too long triggers my inner-merchandiser. It literally is driving me insane. It ruins an otherwise beautiful endcap.
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
10 coasters for $20 sounds like a good deal to me...
PhantomZone
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Backstory: Every week, Shipwreck from Cheap Ass Gamer goes to Target and posts images of the clearance deals they have. Last week, he noticed that they had copies of the recent Garth Brooks boxset. Alot of copies. Like dozens.
That got the ball rolling....
Now it's turned into a thing, with people posting image after image from their local Targets of this fiasco. Every location has at LEAST 50 copies, with some people reporting a couple hundred. How much money did Target invest in this, and how much are they going to
lose? It's rather mind-boggling. Shipwreck himself just posted that if every Target has 50 copies of this at MSRP that's 2.5 million bucks of product.
Post your Garth photos! I'll get the ball rolling, and rope me in if old.
![url]](http://[url]https://postimg.org/image/9vem4erq9/[/url])
Sorry, have trouble direct image posting on mobile.
Target Australia did something similar 10 years ago. Spider-man 1 & 2 sold many copies on dvd.... they were like lets get plenty of copies of Spider-man 3 they would surely sell like hot cakes. Too bad Spidey 3 was not received as well as the previous 2 movies. Most stores had 120+ copies and barely moved any for months.
ThreePiMatt
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Garth Brooks didn't become the best selling solo artist in America by under shipping copies of his album to stores.
milkham
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sixteen-bit
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Isn't he one of the best selling artists of all time?
Ninja Scooter
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somebody should buy all of them and do something like this:
https://twitter.com/electrolemon/status/406173363174785024?lang=en
https://twitter.com/electrolemon/status/406173363174785024?lang=en
Discotheque
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would be a good scene in a horror movie if somebody came to rob a house and opened a door to find a room full of Garth Brooks boxsets.
Robdraggoo
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I guess the eternal question of:
Can there be too much Garth brooks?
Has been answered, and it's apperenly yes.
Can there be too much Garth brooks?
Has been answered, and it's apperenly yes.
Ninja Scooter
Member
actually what would happen if you went around buying all the box sets you could find and returned them all to one single Target?
MegaManTrigger
Banned
Not as bad a decision as going into Canada and completely misjudging the reasons why Canadians travelled over to the States to their Targets. I mean consecutive years of losing 1bn+ dollars says a lot more than just overbuying CDs.
ladyluthien
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I thought I was the only one who noticed all the garth brook box sets while shopping at Target lately
LOL
LOL
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