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It appears Target has made a horrendous business decision (regarding Garth Brooks)

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rtcn63

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U2NUMB said:
I saw those out around Xmas and thought... Who the fuck would want physical discs in an old school box set.. so this does not surprise me.
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I think the idea is that people who would buy a Garth Brooks box set in the modern day aren't people who are aware that time as a whole has moved on
 
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Gentleman Jack

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Count Dookkake said:
And it under sold,
And it under sold!
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GitarooMan

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lol I was Target on Sunday and laughed at the massive clearance stack if these. I wonder if they'll throw them in the ET landfill
 
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Chris R

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He had a free concert in Nashville in October announcing a bunch of streaming and box deals to celebrate his 7th diamond album.

Concert wasn't terrible considering I didn't know a single song he sang.

Won't be buying the boxset tho
 
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IggyChooChoo

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In the late 90s I worked summers at Media Play, a game/cd/bookstore in Nashville. Garth Brooks would come in, disguised in a trench coat, wig, and beard, and go through the CD racks to make sure his CDs were being priced appropriately. The first time this was pointed out to me, I did not believe it. But this happened monthly. Believe it or don't, I swear that this happened.
 
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Aselith

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IggyChooChoo said:
In the late 90s I worked summers at Media Play, a game/cd/bookstore in Nashville. Garth Brooks would come in, disguised in a trench coat, wig, and beard, and go through the CD racks to make sure his CDs were being priced appropriately. The first time this was pointed out to me, I did not believe it. But this happened monthly. Believe it or don't, I swear that this happened.
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I saw him too! I saw Garth at a grocery store in Los Angeles a few years ago. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
 
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Alphahawk

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Aselith said:
I saw him too! I saw Garth at a grocery store in Los Angeles a few years ago. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
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Let's not do dumb reddit memes here plz.
 
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IggyChooChoo

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Aselith said:
I saw him too! I saw Garth at a grocery store in Los Angeles a few years ago. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn't want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, ”Oh, like you're doing now?"

I was taken aback, and all I could say was ”Huh?" but he kept cutting me off and going ”huh? huh? huh?" and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like ”Sir, you need to pay for those first." At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually ”to prevent any electrical infetterence," and then turned around and winked at me. I don't even think that's a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
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OK, ha ha, but seeing country people in Nashville isn't unusual. I saw him at Pancake Pantry once, too, but all he was doing was eating pancakes while chatting with some dude. Once my mom and I stood behind Dolly Parton in a buffet line at the Hermitage Hotel. I saw Johnny Cash perusing religion books at a bookstore, wearing a huge black duster even though it was warm out. These things happen.
 
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Aselith

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IggyChooChoo said:
OK, ha ha, but seeing country people in Nashville isn't unusual. I saw him at Pancake Pantry once, too, but all he was doing was eating pancakes while chatting with some dude. Once my mom and I stood behind Dolly Parton in a buffet line at the Hermitage Hotel. I saw Johnny Cash perusing religion books at a bookstore, wearing a huge black duster even though it was warm out. These things happen.
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Yeah, I believe you, just struck me as a similar sort of story :p
 
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IggyChooChoo

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Aselith said:
Yeah, I believe you, just struck me as a similar sort of story :p
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It is, yeah. I seem to remember that Garth was in some kind of dispute with record industry at the time, and thought he was being ripped off somehow. Not seeing details on that now, though, but he is super-anal about control of his music, and wouldn't let it be sold digitally until pretty recently.
 
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HoodWinked

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someone at target HQ probably put an extra '0' when they made the inital order for these things lol. huge difference between 1,000,000 vs 100,000
 
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zma1013

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I cant wait to tell future generation about the piles and piles of Garth Brooks cds buried in a New Mexico landfill.
 
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mclem

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I thought it a hoot
To get in cahoots
With Target's sale of my wares
I wanted to grow
I wanted the dough
I wanted to make people stare
But my hopes were all lies
Turned out it was not wise
To go for this promo campaign
The sales, they blew
The boxsets did accrue
And my career's gone down the drain

The shelves are full of my box cases
Of those country sounds Target embraces
And there they'll stay
To my dismay
Now they're discounted in all such places
So I have to say on that basis
The shelves are full of my box cases
 
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Marty Chinn

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Marz said:
Just seems redundant to me, i have never been in 2 different wal marts on the same day for example.
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I've got 5 Targets all less than a five min drive. I've got twice as many if I extend that out to 10 min. It's easy enough for me to hit a second Target if the first one doesn't have something I need which has happened plenty of times. What's the alternative? Give up empty handed?
 
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FTF

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Man Target really screwed up when they accidentally swapped this order with their NES classic order.
 
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IggyChooChoo

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mclem said:
I thought it a hoot
To get in cahoots
With Target's sale of my wares
I wanted to grow
I wanted the dough
I wanted to make people stare
But my hopes were all lies
Turned out it was not wise
To go for this promo campaign
The sales, they blew
The boxsets did accrue
And my career's gone down the drain

The shelves are full of my box cases
Of those country sounds Target embraces
And there they'll stay
To my dismay
Now they're discounted in all such places
So I have to say on that basis
The shelves are full of my box cases
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Glorious!
 
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Glass Shark

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I live in Nashville and now I'm super curious to go check out my local Target and see what's up

EDIT: Fuck, there's like 1000 copies of this thing within 25 miles of me. Target dun goofed.
 
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Rootbeer

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Like anyone gives a flying fuck about Garth Brooks in 2016/17. Target, what the hell even is this. With this many copies of this box set in stores you'd think they thought it would sell like a Beatles set or something. Yeah, no.

Yes, I saw tons of clearance copies last week and almost took a pic of it. What a waste.
 
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