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10 huge saving secrets
to save you big at Target.
These are the secret clearance deals.
Hey guys, I'm the deal guy, Matt Granite.
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on everything,
and today well the focus is Target.
I'm gonna take you into
some of the employee only knowin' data
that I'm going to share with you,
and then also some tricks
to make sure you are always saving more
than any other shopper,
behind you in line or online,
if you're shopping on Target dot com.
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So when we're shopping at Target,
you may have your own schedule
but saving secret number one is
know that Target follows one of
the most rigid markdown schedules
of any retailer.
It's not like someone just goes
through the aisle deciding what
they're going to mark down,
Target takes a look at what hasn't sold online,
they follow a very regimented
clearance schedule,
and it's as follows.
On Monday's Target marks down
it's electronics, accessories, kid clothing,
books, baby items, and stationary.
Tuesday they markdown any of the domestics,
women clothing, pet products,
as well as food items throughout the store.
And then on Wednesday,
well it's all about home furnishings,
clothing, health, beauty products,
and diapers are marked down separately,
keep in mind the baby items as a whole
are on Monday but the diapers
are dropped in price on Wednesday.
That leads to some confusion.
Thursday we generally see markdowns on
lingerie, sporting goods, luggage deals
are on Thursday as well.
And Friday the best clearance deals
are generally auto, hardware, and jewelry.
That means if you are shopping
on the weekend,
you're not actually picking
a great day to shop,
you're getting the leftovers
from all of those respective days.
So for example,
if the electronics are marked down on Monday
and you're shopping on the weekend
you're getting the worst of the leftover
from that category before Target returns
to add more items to its new clearance
set of deals on the Monday.
Sunday would probably be the worst day
of the week for that respective category.
So keep that in mind, work with that calendar.
Savings secret number two is
I'm going to show you the most important
number on the tag,
and it's the number
in the top right-hand corner,
not the price.
Why is this so important?
Well if you look at all of the
things that people have circled,
this number represents the markdown
of the specific product that
you're looking at.
This tag right here that has a 50
is letting you know that your item
has been marked down by 50 percent.
This one is letting you know
that your product has been marked down
by 70 percent.
And you may say,
well who cares?
Why does that matter?
I don't need to do math, it's a markdown.
And the advice I'm dispensing
is many of the items
are supposed to be reduced
to a specific price
but there are many arithmetic errors.
Target may intend to mark an item down
by 70 percent and based on that price
that you see in the top right-hand corner
of your tag that's supposed to be
a 70 percent markdown,
but if you look at the before
and the after price
they don't always correlate.
Target's not trying to deceive you,
they're not trying to do anything wrong,
there's just a lot of mathematical errors
that are passed along to the consumers.
Sometimes the list price is wrong
from the manufacturer, that MSRP,
but regardless,
watch out for that number
on the top right-hand corner of the tag.
Those are the ones that you need
to pay attention to.
The next trick I'm going to show you
is savings secret number three,
and this is about a numbers game
of a different type.
Just because everything
on clearance or markdown
has a specific reduction,
how do you know if you're actually
getting the lowest, best price
that Target has to offer.
Let's take a look at their
web pricing just as an example.
Generally any item that ends in zero zero
is full price.
So if you see a product that ends in zero zero
or nine nine,
you are generally paying full price
for the product.
Now yo might say to yourself,
well that doesn't make sense
when I go online and I shop I see plenty of items
that show up as 19.99 or end in a zero
and they are on sale.
What I'm trying to tell you
is yeah they're reduced
but they're not clearance deals.
So keep in mind that if you are trying
to shop clearance there's a whole deal section
which can still have you paying "full price"
at Target.
It's not solely the deals we want
it's the clearance section
and those clearance deals
that we need to know about.
So here's where the rest of the numbers
come into play.
Prices that end in eight eight,
nine eight, four eight, two four,
or oh four,
are all clearance items.
Items that end in four nine
and four four are generally
final clearance products.
So if you see something like a four nine
or a four four,
those are generally clearance products.
You're gonna find many different
Target blogs, and Target vlogs,
and Target YouTube videos
that give you slightly different information.
And I've tried to figure out,
how is this possible?
Is this information outdated?
Are different communities seeing
different reductions?
I've spoken to some different Target employees,
I've telephoned different stores.
And the answer is that this is
an updated set of numbers
that I'm imparting with you right now.
It can change but based on everything
that happened in the communities
over the course of the last couple months,
a lot of those pricing structures
that we see are being adjusted.
People are now generally always
looking for a deal
and always looking for a sale,
so things are going to be
permanently reduced but not always on clearance.
So that's what you need to know
when it comes to those markdowns.
Also keep in mind,
and this is information that I've just received
from a former employee,
the best clearance deals are in the electronics,
toy, clothing, shoes, and home goods sections
for this upcoming season.
So that's where you're going to find
some great deals as your saving secret number four.
Saving secret number five.
Beyond the refurbished,
and the used, and the clearance,
there's something else
that Target marks down regularly in their stores
and its called a repackaged deal.
So I've just again tried
to pull up some repackaged items,
I haven't purchased one recently
but if you look this is an example
of a repackaged tag.
This says repackaged right here.
And these are all deals
that are generally exclusive to a specific store
and some of the best reductions
you will see in that specific place.
How do these exist, why do these exist?
Sometimes items are dented
when they're being moved within
the store itself, and sometimes there's been
an issue in the distribution with the truck.
Sometimes packages are removed in bad weather,
something stains or smears with rain,
there's spills, there's things that
get marked up significantly
while the item inside is in no way affected.
So Target will repackage a lot
of these items or sometimes adjust the packaging,
I've actually seen tape
used in a couple of occasions
while some type of glue.
But for a lot of the deals you're going to find
it is well worth it,
so look for that yellow or sometimes red
repackage tag is saving secret number five.
Saving secret number six,
and I'll go more in depth
tied to this when the holidays approach.
Target follows a completely different
discount schedule after Christmas
and the holidays.
So in the days that follow Christmas
rather than marking down specific items
from specific categories like we saw
in that days of the week tip
that I was giving you earlier on,
Target simply takes a full percentage off each day.
So the day after Christmas
our markdowns begin at 50 percent
then all of the categories that are being reduced
see a 75 percent collective reduction
and it goes all the way from 75 percent generally
to 90 percent by day three and day five.
What does that matter to you?
Well if you see something
that has the 90 percent markdown on it,
that's generally the lowest a product
will ever be sold for at Target.
So that is saving secret number six.
Saving secret number seven is
don't worry about getting
a circular everything you can find
is online complete with coupons.
If you go to a specific URL,
which I'll be happy to share
with you on my website
if I'm moving too quickly for you,
you're not only gonna find
all of the weekly ads there
but Target will also include coupons.
So if you don't want to do the coupon clip,
you can add these on to your cell phone screen
or your smartphone screen,
you can do a quick screen grab
and Target will accept the coupons.
Keep in mind that when you are searching
through a catalog,
the reductions and the sales are good
but every once in a while
if you look very carefully
you're gonna find actual coupons
that have a barcode.
So you've two ways to implement this,
you can actually find this in the Target app
and apply it to your smartphone
or you can take a screen grab
Target will accept manufacturer coupons.
And in some cases they will accept coupons
from competitors.
Savings secret number eight.
Don't feel overly pressured
to get the Target RedCard,
yes you're gonna save five percent more
everyday in store online
but if you look there are restrictions
not every product gets the discount
and with how many products are reduced
you're often going to find Walmart or Amazon
going within five percent of that deal
or final sale item that you see at Target.
So appeal to the customer service department
for a price match.
Often you're going to find
if that price is cheaper at Walmart
but you simply prefer to give Target
the business they will reduce it
five percent more and you don't need
to worry about a credit card application
if that's not something you can do right now.
Saving secret number nine,
you can get a rain check on awesome deals
that have sold out in a specific store.
This doesn't always work for Black Friday
or Cyber Monday but we'll look at those
as isolated times.
Let's say there's an amazing
holiday deal on the Nintendo Switch
and you're so excited, you've waited, you go,
this is where you're gonna spend your money
and then you find out that specific product
is not available in the store
but that huge Nintendo Switch sale
of 30 percent off or whatever it is
ends the next day.
Well here's the good thing,
almost every Target store I spoke to
will honor its deal beyond the deadline
for rain check items,
which means if the product
is not available in the store
they will still give it to you
as soon as in stock and available
at that deal price.
That's great for non Black Friday
and Cyber Monday exclusive TV discounts,
and gaming and all sorts of deals
that you may not be able to pass up
right now especially if times are tough
as they are for all of us
I'm assuming in some way, get that rain check
and don't feel pressured
to be at that exact store
nor should you worry about
driving all over the city to find another Target
that has that specific product in stock.
And finally saving secret number 10,
you can save yourself a whole lotta time
browsing and searching for deals
on Target dot com if you simply know
what word to enter to get the discount started.
Type in the word clearance to the search bar
at the top of Target dot com
and it immediately launches every single deal for
its respective category of clearance.
So rather that just
going to the clearance section
at the top of the page,
rather than just looking through
the home section hoping to find
something on sale,
you never need to pay full price.
Shoes as an example,
one of my least favorite categories in life,
you just simply go to the shoe section
all of a sudden everything there
is already on sale.
If you're looking to find
home clearance section products
as an example,
not only do you get a whole home section
on clearance but you can further
narrow it down for example bedding
which a lot of people are buying right now,
everything here would be at its lowest price
including these pillow case sets
for as low as three dollars and 49 cents.
You do not need to spend
all of your precious time
going through circulars and ads,
and trying to find the best price
if you are shopping on Target dot com
with that quick trick.
So I hope all of these tricks
added up, saved ya a lot of money,
I hope your money stays where it belongs,
and that's in your pocket.
And if there are other stores
where you're looking for saving secrets
or even things that are a little bit
less obvious but might help gear you
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