It'll be a webkinz weekend here for sure!
The gift store we like at has started focusing more on TY online than webkinz so they weren't participating but gave DD7 a free webkinz gift bag just because she looked so disappointed. The owner is a friend and told us that she still thought it was a great deal for merchants as well as kids but her store just wasn't large enough to handle that much foot traffic on what is a really busy weekend in our area anyway. According to her - stores were offered one free webkinz for each one they ordered for the event.
Heading down to the next shop in town that features the critters, we bought two webkinz - the talking zingoz and a cocker spaniel and got two free, a leopard and a tabby cat for atotal of $27.85 after tax for 4. Their wheel of wow hadn't arrived as promised so they were using a box to draw coupons from. If you got a paper with a star on it, you could choose from a mouse pad, a pack of webkinz cards, a gift bag or a magnetic bookmark. No star equaled a lollipop. Both my girls ended up with lollipops but the prizes weren't that awesome anyway so they were fine with it. The owner there told me she'd had 11 big boxes of the free webkinz (not sure how many that is) and had gone thru 4 already just today. We live in a small town and she was the only store doing it today. I got there at 5:10 so she thought perhaps they wouldn't be doing it on Sunday after all if sales stayed at the current rate. Other moms in the store also got one free webkinz for each $10 they spent, not just one per purchase. The webkinz bears were nearly gone so I guess that's a really popular one to choose.
I left wishing I thought about buying a pack of cards so I hit $30 for the third webkinz but this wasn't a planned excursion. The prices at this store are higher than the two other in our town - $14.95 for regular size and $10.95 for lil kinz.
The last store on our list is next to the pizza place so you know what we for dinner. Both this last store & the first shop charge $10.95 for regular size and $8.95 for lil kinz - a much better deal than the specialty store or the Hallmark in the next town. It's a pharmacy and they're doing the special tomorrow between 11-2 though that wasn't communicated very well because while we were there, four other families came in for webkinz specials also. The good thing is that the $10 purchase can be anything except prescriptions, not just webkinz so I'm making a plan and sending mom in for birthday cards and stuff too which she buys there all the time anyway. I'll call before they close tonight and ask them to hold the ones we need. I'm expecting there to be quite a line even though this store isn't planning any special extra activities.
From what we've seen and been told, there are 14 "free" webkinz to choose from. I looked at all of them lined up waitng for tomorrow at the pharmacy but can't remember all of them now, I'm missing one... free choices included - the pig, cow, green frog, white poodle, a tan 2 color dog, leopard, tiger, lion, bear, tan lab, tabby, white persian, balck & white kitty, and ?
Does anybody know if any of these are retiring soon or already retired by chance?
If you're shopping this weekend, What are you choosing as your free webkinz?