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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Target Selling Prestige Brands, Whether the Companies Like It Or Not]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2008/04/05/target-selling-prestige-brands-whether-the-companies-like-it-or/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2008/04/05/target-selling-prestige-brands-whether-the-companies-like-it-or/</guid><description><![CDATA[people in the business know cosmetic brands are the least loyal when it comes to business relationships.  they constantly jump ship and sell to competitors or their clients with little to no notice.  so it comes as no surprise when a department store dumps a huge supply onto the gray market.  if the cosmetics brands really wanted to fight this they would institute buy-back programs, which they dont, being the greedy bastards they are, as they wish to keep their profits higher while shouldering all the risk of sales to the retailer.  many cosmetics have sell-by dates as well so the longer they sit on the shelves the bigger chance the retailer has of having to dump it at complete loss in the end.  so they instead graymarket it before expiration to at least recoup some of the cost.  the cosmetics company could do replacement to avoid this, but they rarely do. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[floydmarks]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 6th 2008 3:16PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Target Selling Prestige Brands, Whether the Companies Like It Or Not]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2008/04/05/target-selling-prestige-brands-whether-the-companies-like-it-or/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2008/04/05/target-selling-prestige-brands-whether-the-companies-like-it-or/</guid><description><![CDATA[Interesting point, Floyd. I often wonder just how complicit some of these companies are in these gray market arrangements. Buy back programs would keep the products off the gray market but then what would become of the products, would they be wasted?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deidre Woollard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 6th 2008 3:23PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Target Selling Prestige Brands, Whether the Companies Like It Or Not]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2008/04/05/target-selling-prestige-brands-whether-the-companies-like-it-or/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2008/04/05/target-selling-prestige-brands-whether-the-companies-like-it-or/</guid><description><![CDATA[Where is my $25 gift to Target for doing a survey. Every survey followes with buy 2 silver 0r one gold item. $25 was for taking survey not buying items.False adverstining.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Diane Scott]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 16th 2008 8:51AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Target Selling Prestige Brands, Whether the Companies Like It Or Not]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2008/04/05/target-selling-prestige-brands-whether-the-companies-like-it-or/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2008/04/05/target-selling-prestige-brands-whether-the-companies-like-it-or/</guid><description><![CDATA[Target was not only survey I did. Some had the same ads. get gift card or gas card. Do you people feel I was ill advised  to join survey market groups. Diane]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Diane Scott]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 16th 2008 8:59AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>