Bath and Body Works Semi-Annual Sale is almost over (and Victoria’s Secret started a little late)! Can you believe the month is almost up? How did it fly by that quickly? The days run together sometimes I swear.
Well, Bath and Body Works Semi-Annual Sale is as disappointing as ever! I really didn’t indulge much! Did you? I got their Semi-Annual Exclusives which were Whipped Coconut Milkshake and Fruity Sherbet Scoop! I liked Fruity Sherbet Scoop! It was fun! I don’t need any backups of it but I enjoyed it. Whipped Coconut Milkshake wasn’t really my thing. It was very weak, didn’t smell like the vanilla coconut milkshake I was expecting, and just felt like I was misting myself with water. I sort of wish they brought back Cinnamon Sugar Donut!
One scent that did stick out was Vanilla Mocha Martini! I got two lotions and two mists as I really loved it. I think it was some left over stock from Holiday 2023? Correct me if I’m wrong! But it’s a really nice chocolate, coffee, vanilla fragrance. Quite yummy.
Sadly, as we’ve discussed many, many times in the past the sale simply isn’t what it used to me. The sale is very calculated now and it’s rare they are just tossing things into big yellow bins and marking them down. I remember the sale as a big old chaotic mess of goodness. Years back it was like they just cleared out their entire back room and put it in a bunch of bins. Now the sale is very, very organized. My store has most of the sale items neatly lined on shelves with only a few bins around. And the sale doesn’t take up much of the store’s floor space either. It’s typically one center rack of sale items and three to six bins on another table.
I also remember when they were doing weekly deals which didn’t seem to happen this year. Each week or every few days they’d feature one item on sale for a limited time. I always found this frustrating as you’d have to go to the store to get the deal before it ended. I just want to do one big haul. Don’t keep calling me back to the store every other day for a new sale item.
As always, they do have early Fall 2023 Candles in store to tempt you as you shop the sale. But anyone who pays full price for a Bath and Body Works Candle must be criminally insane. Why they think any of us would indulge at full price is beyond me. I actually didn’t even sniff any of them because it’s a lot of rehash with new labels.
How’d you do at this years sale? Did you stock up on anything or was a it a bust?
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