Hello!!! This is easily one of the top 10 famous sales out there. It’s bi-annual and happens on different dates according to each coastal location (NY or LA).
Here’s the deal, as Paul, over at the Women’s Co-Op in SF, was kind enough to illuminate to me:
Each summer and winter, Barneys holds clearance sales at its various store locations. These sales go on for a month to a month and a half and can include discounts up to 60% off (though that’s rare). After the in-store sales are over, everything else gets shipped off to the two warehouse sale locations (again, in case you weren’t paying attention - NY, LA) and gets marked down from 50-75% off.
The warehouse sales usually run relatively concurrently, but there’s usually a slight date difference. As the warehouse sales progress, the markdowns increase, culminating in a 90% markdown on most merchandise by the end.
As I’ve stated before, are you going to be walking out with muy barato crapo? Umm… No. You’re still going to be shelling out easily $100 per item, but these are items that had previously been priced sometimes in the thousands of dollars.
12:52 pm on August 8th, 2008
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