{"id":346634,"date":"2010-02-21T15:27:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T20:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/?p=10065"},"modified":"2010-02-21T15:27:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T20:27:12","slug":"shop-till-you-drop-2010-vancouver-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/346634","title":{"rendered":"Shop till you drop @ 2010 Vancouver Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An excerpt from Andrew Willis’ “The Shopping Olympics<\/a>” (emphasis added),<\/p>\n

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Vancouver crowds have embraced the Games, and Olympic merchandise, with a passion that borders on frenzy.
\n Shoppers are lining up at 5:30 in the morning to get into an Olympic superstore that doesn\u2019t open until 9. During the day, they wait up to 90 minutes to get in.<\/em><\/strong> The retailer expected 10,000 customers a day in the downtown Vancouver store. Late last week, under sunny skies, up to 50,000 shoppers went through the doors.<\/p>\n

Half way through the Games, Hudson\u2019s Bay Co. is selling Olympic-themed merchandise at three times the expected rate. More than 20,000 transactions a day are being run through its tills.<\/em><\/strong> […]<\/p>\n

The top selling item is the red mitts<\/strong> that Ms. Brooks is pitching: The Bay has moved 3 million pairs, with 100,000 a day selling since the Games began. The chain will soon run out of inventory, as only 3.5 million mitts were knitted<\/strong>, and the retailer has decided that it’s too late to make more. The No. 2 seller is Olympic hoodies, with 2 million sold at $50 each, followed by lumberjack-style rally scarves, a $20 purchase.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Showing our love and support for the athletes and our Canada, the $10 red mitts were priced right and worked like magic. I hope the red mitts will help provide the athletes with needed funding for the years to come. I will see if I can get some numbers from Hudson’s Bay Co. after the game is finished.<\/p>\n

\"Vancouver<\/a>\"Vancouver<\/a><\/p>\n

Filed under: 2010-Olympics<\/a>, advertising<\/a>, blogging<\/a>, Business<\/a>, Canada<\/a>, Creative<\/a>, Fashion<\/a>, Love<\/a>, Lovemarks<\/a>, Marketing<\/a>, people<\/a>, Vancouver<\/a>, World<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An excerpt from Andrew Willis’ “The Shopping Olympics” (emphasis added), Vancouver crowds have embraced the Games, and Olympic merchandise, with a passion that borders on frenzy. Shoppers are lining up at 5:30 in the morning to get into an Olympic superstore that doesn\u2019t open until 9. During the day, they wait up to 90 minutes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}