- This is how to find hidden secret clearance deals
at Target plus insider shopping secrets
the store does not want you to know.
Welcome back to the channel.
I'm the YouTube deal guy, Matt Granite.
I'm excited we're back together.
I did an upload recently on the hidden secret clearance
deals at Walmart and many of you guys asked
that I follow up with this Target expose.
So, here I am, this video is not sponsored.
I'm gonna bring you inside my local Target,
unveil these secrets.
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Secret number one, if you see a sign that says 70% off,
that is likely the best you will do,
unless it's a 90% off deal tied
to certain points of the year
which we'll discuss in a moment.
But there is generally no such thing
for your everyday shopping as a deal
that truly is better than 70% off at Target.
So if you see an item reduced to that extent,
it's often removed from the store afterwards,
liquidated elsewhere or donated.
Learning to read the price tags at Target,
which we will do today over the course of this video
will help you understand their final markdown schedule.
But if you see 70% often and it's not around a holiday,
this is your best bet.
And again, I will explain the 90%
off deals in a few moments.
Secret number two,
it's all about the side horizontal end caps at Target.
I'm sure you guys have seen others videos
from either myself or different creators on YouTube,
where people give you these shopping hacks
and they tell you to check the end caps.
I'm sure you knew that before you even watched this video.
But Target has these weird side end caps
that face a different direction.
And that is where you will find many
of the top clearance deals.
So this is the first place Target will place
many of its best clearance deals.
Look at the bottom left-hand side of the lower shelves
as well as on these side end caps.
If you see a yellow clearance sticker,
unlike other stores that just use a special clearance
section or the end caps,
Target's use of the side end caps often reveal
where many of the top stashed deals reside in the store.
Secret number three,
know the unlucky clearance numbers at Target.
Different people have favorite, unlucky and lucky numbers.
Different religions do as well.
At Target, It's an eight and a six.
And these numbers are generally considered unlucky
in the clearance cycle because if you see a six or eight
at the end it's crucial to know
that another markdown is only days away.
And I will get to that schedule in a moment.
Secret number four,
Target hates the weekend.
We all look forward to the weekend.
I love that time with my family.
It's also a good opportunity to deal with errands
and store pickups when you're not working.
But at Target, on a weekend
you will rarely see clearance deals.
I will explain the most powerful days of the week
at Target for hidden clearance deals,
but weekends equal week at Target.
If you find yourself craving clearance deals
at Target on a weekend,
consider the online clearance section of target.com.
Well, the physical stores don't generally have
their clearance sections replenished on weekends.
Target.com. Online clearance is alive and well
and sometimes the online clearance section has better stock.
I do have a favorite part
of the online clearance section @target.com.
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Target hidden clearance secret number five,
know these days of the week like the back of your hand.
If you want a really big bargain,
Monday is the day of the week where you will see
kid clothing and electronics deals.
So as a father, I love this.
Not only can I look at electronics
but I could also find clothing for my toddler,
double whammy in the deal department.
On Tuesday, Target posts it's clearance deals
and reduces prices on women's clothing
that does not include lingerie or shoes,
we'll talk about that in a moment, and pet supplies.
So Tuesday is for the ladies and the dogs
and cats and hamsters or whatever else it is that you have.
Wednesday is one of my other favorite days of the week
because that is how I can dress
like a used car salesman on a regular basis.
Men's clothing reduced on Wednesdays.
Garden and lawn items also reduced on Wednesdays.
And toy clearance deals are posted on Wednesday,
although if you are shopping for toys,
I have some better information to pass
along on that in a moment.
Thursday is the best day of the week
to score home goods, lingerie,
yup, lingerie with the home goods,
sporting goods, home decor
which is different than home goods apparently
and shoes for both men women and kids.
On Friday, Target posts its best deals
for TGI, cosmetics, jewelry and car products savings.
It's a strange breakdown of deals,
but if you're wondering
why would this happen on the same day as this,
a lot of the clearance section deals
are tied to crowd control and not the way you think.
Target is trying to push momentum
toward different areas of the store.
So, if Target has a huge clearance section
they may be hoping that you'll actually buy an item
at full or list price right nearby.
And this is to stagger the traffic
so they can bank on other purchases
in addition to their clearance markdowns
over the course of a week.
Target hidden clearance number six,
understand those yellow stickers.
In fact, anytime you see a sticker at Target,
make sure it's not the repackage stickers.
Repackage stickers are often returns
that don't offer any real discount.
Sometimes there might be a nominal discount
on those repackaged stickers if indicated
that you see throughout the store.
But this is just someone that has returned something
and Target is now trying to move that stock along.
Sometimes a box is damaged
and then it is in fact repackaged.
The yellow clearance stickers,
which are sometimes indistinguishable
from those repackaged stickers, bring the real discounts.
So I know when we go into Target, we're going in to see red,
but yellow is in fact the best color you can find.
In the number seven spot, four is your luckiest number
and one of my favorite numbers.
I think many of you guys now know the password to my phone
and possibly my alarm but that's fine.
Oh, too much information, but that's okay.
That's what you do when you have friends watching.
By the way guys, I really do appreciate you watching.
If you see a number four in a price tag at Target,
this means final clearance.
So in addition to that 70% off markdown
that I mentioned before, if there is no percentage reduction
displayed or a big section with a huge deal sign posted
signifying 70% off or if the item is not ticketed,
which we'll discuss in a moment,
that number four is an indication that you are getting
the final, last best offering from Target.
Hidden clearance shopping secret number eight,
I got this, know the difference between ticketed
and non ticketed clearance items.
Ticketed clearance items have the yellow sticker
and are scattered through the store,
but there're other clearance sections inside a Target
where none of the items in these sections
have any markdowns on the specific item.
That means they are non ticketed.
There is no sticker, no price.
These sections, which are typically harder to find
might have a 50 or 60% off banner above the section
with little fine print that says
additional markdown taken at register.
So these are non ticketed items
and they actually follow a holiday markdown schedule
which I will explain next.
For hidden savings secrets number nine and 10 on this list
before I get to some cool bonuses,
there're multiple stages of clearance
tied primarily to a holiday schedule.
So we're gonna explain the holiday schedule.
Please don't get overwhelmed.
What I'm going to discuss now is tied to the holidays
and those non-normal days of the week.
Stage one, stage two and stage three at Target
is generally exemplified by stickers
that are placed on top of each other.
So you can quickly see a product
in a holiday clearance section and understand
whether or not it's at its final markdown.
One clearance sticker, stage one.
A clearance sticker on top of a clearance sticker stage two.
And if you see three clearance stickers
all on top of each other,
you will know that a product is at its final stage
of a holiday markdown schedule.
So for hidden savings secret number 10,
let's understand the holiday markdown schedule
and then I promise I'm gonna put this all together
and it's actually gonna be very simple.
Earlier on in this video, I gave you the best days
of the week to score a clearance deal at Target.
And I handled that in number five on this list
if you wanna rewind the video and look back.
But during the holidays,
there is yet another reduction schedule to follow.
Stage one of the holiday clearance markdown schedule
occurs one day after a major holiday.
You'll save 50% off any non-food product
and 30% off any holiday food product.
So keep your eye on these sections
one day after the holiday.
Clearance markdown stage two
happens four days after a major holiday
and in this case you will save 70% off non-food products
and 50% off food products.
Now, if you were watching earlier on
toward the beginning of this video
when I said 70% is generally the best you can do at Target
you might be wondering, well where do we go from here?
On holidays, anything that was 70% off
has a potential to reach 90% off.
The only time this happens.
And I'm gonna explain what you need to look for right now.
You can tell this is getting exciting for me
'cause my hands are getting even more animated.
Stage three happens seven days after a holiday.
So whether it's 4th of July, Christmas, Thanksgiving
Valentine's day decorations or Halloween decor,
mark your shopping calendars
for seven days after that holiday,
where the non-food items will be marked down by 90%
and seven days after that holiday,
the food-related products will be marked down 70%.
Before I get to the bonus bargains,
in summary, and you know you're in trouble
if you need to say in summary at the end of a YouTube video,
if this sounded overly complicated,
all of the advice prior to the holiday markdown schedules
that if things are up to 70% off
you're generally doing the best you can.
And you'll also know that by looking
at price tags that have specific numbers
in the areas in which you need to look in a store.
That's easy.
The holiday markdown schedule is complicated
but you don't need to worry about that everyday
when you're shopping at Target.
And you can just allocate that advice
to the special opportunities over the course of the year.
Now, bonus shopping secret number one,
Target staggers its best deals two weeks apart.
So generally, the middle and the end of the month
at Target are jam packed with savings.
And that applies to all of the advice I gave you
with the exception of the holiday schedule of course.
And the final bonus, which goes out to any fellow parent,
aunt, uncle, guardian, grandparent,
if you are shopping for kids
or if you're an adult who likes toys,
the Target holiday clearance toy sale
is in a league of its own
and you can actually throw it every piece of advice
I gave you when this sale appears.
A lot of people think when they see the Target sale
for toys right around Christmas,
they are getting this deal that I'm gonna talk about,
but that is absolutely not true.
The official Target holiday clearance sale
happens in January and July.
Typically right around prime day.
Assuming that prime day happens in July and not October.
So this is the time to score
your best toy deals of the year.
The savings on toys at Target during those two points
of the year are so staggering,
it actually pays to buy your toys for Christmas
if you can shop that far in advance,
for birthdays, for birthday parties
that your kids might be attending,
for ways to reward your toddler, who's potty training still.
Whatever it is that you're doing, these are all things
that you could take advantage of from this toy sale.
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