They offered a good number of HDTVs, perhaps 150 or so, but they are all in boxes leaning against the walls of the tornado shelter zone. The TVs are tucked off in a dark corner The kind of place where you would run if a tornado interrupted your shopping trip. With a super high ceiling and bright lights produce an impressive showcase for the outlet appliances on the floor. In the end, these rows took up most of the floor space. Then icemakers, trash compactors and special temperature controlled wine coolers / fridges / cellars. Then, another row, another display appliances: Ovens, stoves and dishwashers were next. The horizon ended just before the refrigerators along the back wall.Ī parallel line of shiny new-looking front loaders had the next row. One row featured regular old washers and dryers as far as you could see into the horizon. In the middle of the room were a number of makeshift aisles formed by rows and rows of appliances all side by side by side by side. Seriously, there were refrigerators standing shoulder to shoulder, side by side backed up against about half of the wall space in the outlet 'box'. So many, it made me wonder if we were surrounded by a flood of duds that customers returned to the store. Phones? Nothing like what my friend was hoping to find.īut, if you crave a stainless steel refrigerator you've got plenty of choices. What we found was one very large (big box) room with every big appliance you could possibly want to install in your kitchen or laundry room and perhaps an HDTV from 22 inches to supersized for your man cave or she-shed. She had hopes of finding a pair of wireless phones for her home, I was hoping to find a good buy on a new computer monitor. Ī friend and I stopped by the new Best Buy Outlet on opening day. The Philadelphia-based retailer operates just two Final Cut stores, and one is in Georgia! The two stores are in Augusta, (a mere 2.5 miles from Augusta National Golf Club) and in Englishtown, New Jersey. Urban Outfitters also operates a similar store, Final Cut, wh ere the company liquidates merchandise from its Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and at times, Free People, and BHLDN brands at significant discounts. There are two such stores open today, one in Phoenix, Arizona (where ToNeTo Atlanta has visited and found it hit or miss) and another in Lombard, Illinois, a suburb or Chicago. Nordstrom operates a pair of "Last Chance" stores where merchandise that may be returned, defective, worn, used, or otherwise unsaleable in traditional Nordstrom or Nordstrom Rack stores is liquidated. returned about $351 billion worth of items that they had purchased from brick-and-mortar retailers and online stores, according to estimates by the National Retail Federation.Ī lot of that merchandise ended up at off-price retailers like Dirt Cheap, Bargain Hunt and other independent surplus liquidators.
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