L'Oreal Consumer Products Warehouse Sale

After the Ikea sale, Sin Cyn and I headed over to the Hamodal Building near Glad Tidings Church for the L’Oreal CPD sale, the sale attended by most women who wear make up ie. most women in KL. The L’Oreal warehouse sales are rather unpredictable. You never really know what’s on sale so you just have to chance it. But they have at least 50 products anyway, from make up to skin care to hair care so there’s a high chance you’ll find something you need or want. But chancing it means fighting your way on a road looking for a parking spot which constantly has cars circling the area like sharks circling their prey. The double parking on the small roads does not help. But that’s what I go through twice a year for the sale. The sale wasn’t too bad this year. Most of their usual items were available and are about 40% cheaper than in retail. They also have about 2 more years of shelf life on it. Very worth it indeed. But this is the 2nd sale in a row where my favourite L’Oreal Cashmere shampoo is sold out. A bit of a disappointment. But I still have a few bottles left from the last time I bought so I’ll just have to wait 6 more months for the next warehouse sale.

For those planning to go for the sale, it’s on from today till tomorrow. I suggest going today. Past experience has shown that women go in there and come out with boxes and boxes of products. So there won’t be much left tomorrow.

L'Oreal Consumer Products Warehouse Sale 24-25 April 2008

For those who are planning to go for the L’Oreal Consumer Products warehouse sale at the Hamodal Building today, it’s the last day! But really, don’t bother. Sin Cyn, Michelle Who Stays On The Seashore and I went after lunch yesterday. We had to drive up and down the road several times to find a parking amidst massive traffic jams and in the end had to double park.

We went up, took out our wallets, mobile phone and other valuables, stuffed them into our pockets and checked our hand bag in at the counter. We walked in and there wasn’t a lot of stuff left! And this was just 4 hours after the sale started. There were no more shampoos except for the L’Oreal Elseve Multi Vitamins. And there were no more men’s products either. Guess it’s not too surprising because we saw people carrying carton boxes of purchases out when we were leaving.

So we ended up buying some lip glass, some moisturisers, some mascara and headed back to the office.

I always wondered why some companies like cosmetics have warehouse sales when their products are perfectly fine and probably just one year old from manufacture date. And since these products usually have a 2 year shelf life, they are perfectly fine and can be bought at a 30% to 50% discounts!

In Cyn tells me it’s ‘cos L’Oreal has a policy that any product not sold after a period of time is either destroyed or sold. A pretty good policy to me!

Anyway the L’Oreal sale at the second half of the year apparently is much better. Look out for the next one then!