I'm another very disappointed customer! I went to my local BBW after work to buy lotion for $3 and see what else they had......they had nada.... I bought a MP lotion; exotic coconut anti bac hand lotion and a fresh breath mini peppermint lotion....there were hardly any classic collections @ the store. Does this mean we have to buy them online? I'm going to one of the mega malls in my area that has 2 BBW stores-perhaps I'll find something there.

Things of interest our Danbury, CT store has:

*Large anti-bac refills for deep cleansing and foaming
*Some Aquatanica spa products
*Many Slatkin candles at 50% off
*Awake/Vincent Longo cosmetics 75% off
*American Girl products and giftsets

Did anyone notice if any Vanilla Noir stuff was on sale? I'd rather purchase it on sale so I can try it out first.

Today I saw the vanilla noir wallflower sale for $3.

Well I've been to two stores so far, and have spent about $25.

I saw:
-current fragrances in the old packaging ($3 lotions, $6 or 3 for 15 the other items)
- aromatherapy warm milk & honey, 50% off
--Fresh Vanilla lotions (regular size), 50% off(one store had them for 75% off)
-C.O. Bigelow mentha lip shines for $2
- American girl (fresh flowers, apple, a few strawberries & cream, lip balms), 50% off
- Strawberry Lemonade Lotion, $3
-a few Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin lotions (I think those were 50% off)
-$5 wallflowers
- vanilla noir trial sized EDT, 75% off
-other EDT, $10-aquatanica face cream & body cream, 75% off
-various lip glosses, 75% off (the tints & dual sided wands)
Very few classics from last time.
- gardenia lotions & body washes, $3
-Tropical Passionfruit bubble bath, 75% off
-high lather scrub in various scents, $6
-other items for $6, or 3 for 15
-jamine vanilla hand cream, $2
-exotic coconut & a couple of other anti-bacterial hand creams for $2
- aromatherapy mandarin lime and jasmine vanilla shower gel, 50% off
- large hand soap refill, 2 for $10
- some breathe items for 75% off (mostly the orange one, some washes & a few lotions)

My sister found a few cool citrus basil items, but I didn't see those in the stores I went to. The store near my house had the better items. I was hoping to see the aromatherapy black chamomile on clearance, but no such luck. If anyone sees the aromatherapy items go on sale, please do tell

I stopped by BBW today and still was disappointed. This has to be one of the worst SAS I've ever seen. The only 2 good finds I saw were 2 Flowering Herb lotions. I ended up getting a 4 oz pear blossom splash and a 4 oz magnolia blossom lotion. I don't think I'll be going back. It seems like they are trying to do away with the old signature scent packaging items at this sale.

2009 begins with ALL Wallflowers $5 and ALL old Signature Collection packaging at $5 each. This excludes EDT and Ultimate Silk Lotions, still at $10.

I went to BBW today, and also walked out empty-handed.
I saw nothing of interest. The only thing I considered getting were a few Country Apple hand soaps, but I didn't want to bother at 3 for $10.
I probably won't be going back for the remainder of the sale, since I really don't need anything anyway.

I'm not impressed by what we have in our back room, but hopefully tomorrow will be a big shipment day.

we barely have any discontinued Signature products except for Sparkling Peach, Freshwater Cucumber and Cotton Blossom.

i think i will make a suggestion to bbw and see what kind of response i get.

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Originally posted by ilovebathandbody:
i think i will make a suggestion to bbw and see what kind of response i get.

what is your suggestion?

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Originally posted by Quincy:
I'm not impressed by what we have in our back room, but hopefully tomorrow will be a big shipment day.

we barely have any discontinued Signature products except for Sparkling Peach, Freshwater Cucumber and Cotton Blossom.

Quincy,
Do you know if BBW will be putting the old classic collections on the floor for sale (i.e. excotic coconut) or will we need to order those items online? And why has BBW stop putting those items on display during SAS sale?

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Originally posted by Megan:
I was impressed that they had a lot of Temptations, but naturally they didn't have any Temptations products in Glittery Gumdrop.

One store near me actually had some Glittery Gumdrop 3-in-1 yesterday, Megan. I would've picked them up had I known it was something you were looking for. I'll be going back there either today or tomorrow to see if they get any other Temptations in though. So, if they still have some GG 3-in-1 left and you want it let me know.

I think the Sunset Mango splash was a good find but haven't seen those here yet.

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Originally posted by j-lyn:

Quincy,
Do you know if BBW will be putting the old classic collections on the floor for sale (i.e. excotic coconut) or will we need to order those items online? And why has BBW stop putting those items on display during SAS sale?

Some scents are coming back. Our store has already gotten Exotic Coconut shower gel and body butter, but they're going fast.

A lot of fragrances have not come out yet in body care and I'm assuming that several will not be making it back to the stores.

I have seen in one form or another at our store, but keep in mind our store is an A+ volume store, so it's pretty large:
Blackberry Amber
Brown Sugar and Fig
Chocolate Amber
Cotton Blossom
Country Apple
Exotic Coconut
Fresh Pineapple
Freshwater Cucumber
Gardenia
Green Tea and Cucumber
Sheer Freesia
Sparkling Peach

I saw White Tea and Ginger in Anti-Bac, but not in body care.

I believe they are finally phasing out a lot of the classics, as we barely have enough of them to stage our tables. The majority of the products we are getting are recent discontinueds, such as Sparkling Peach and Freshwater Cucumber.
Sale goes for another three weeks or so and most stores get shipment 2-3 times per week, so keep checking back.

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As for Sunset Mango splash, we received several boxes in shipment. I'm guessing other stores will get it too, unless our store was a fluke.

I've gotten a couple of things I was excited about, but have been mostly disappointed as well. I grabbed a few EC body butters for me and for my aunt, who loves anything and everything coconut. She'll be thrilled.

Beyond that, I got a couple of dancing tealight holders, one in the bamboo print and one that's hot pink with a lattice-y looking pattern; both match my bathroom exactly, so that was awesome, and they were $3.75 apiece. I also got the following:

4 Winter room sprays @ $1.25 each
Twisted Peppermint bath parfait thingie @ $2.75
Lime Mentha lip shine - $2
Mango Mandarin EDT - $10
a boatload of body creams for $3 each
some Cotton Blossom stuff for a friend

Didn't see much at all in the way of Classics, but that's no real skin off my nose because I can't stand most of them anyway. It'd be nice to grab a few Lemongrass Sage and Green Clover & Aloe shower gels without having to pay for shipping, but I won't die if I can't find them.

I'll probably hit a few flagships tomorrow and see if they've got anything interesting. One of them has been basically off limits to me for a year because of severe highway construction, so it'll be cool to get in there again. They always seem to have more variety than any other store in St. Louis.

I happened to find a Sunset Mango splash and a Seaspray shower gel at BBW last night. I didn't see much of anything else. I am hoping to find some Island Coconut items but I think I'm out of luck.

More things I saw today:

For 75% off:
-breathe energy (green) lotion, breathe uplifting (orange) in-shower moisture shower gel
-Temptations Sunset Mango spalsh, orange freeze lotion & birthday blowout 3-in-1
- Lavender Chamomile Bubble bath (the ones in the large glass jar)
-magnolia blossom & tropical passionfruit creamy body wash & (tp) body butter
-jasmine vanilla bath foam

For $3:
flowering herbs, strawberry lemonade, tropical passionfruit, magnolia blossom, sparkling peach, country apple, chocolate amber, fresh pineapple lotions
-blackberry amber shower gels

Ile De Tahiti (lotion) made a return to our store today, on the 75% off table.

I forgot to mention that we also had Sun Ripened Raspberry and Tropical Passionfruit make a return, but mainly in the form of bubble bath.

I stopped at a couple of BBW stores today. Their arrangement was much better & they seemed to have more items than my local BBW. Still, I hardly saw any classics on the tables as has been in years past. There were no lotions; just full size bubble baths or shower gels. No FV items at one of the stores I went to but I did find one EC body butter so I grabbed it. The salesgirl says EC is a very wanted item. I didn't see any EC lotions or shower gels. I also picked up a DW body cream-signature collection items are $5 this week.
I'm going shopping next weekend at this mega mall which has 2 BBWs. I'm going to see what they have. However I'm not going to be doing much shopping this SAS.

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Originally posted by Quincy:
Ile De Tahiti (lotion) made a return to our store today, on the 75% off table.

Thanks for mentioning that, Quincy. Hopefully some IDT stuff will show up here too. Do you know what scent it is/was that made a return?

I have about half a bottle of the Fei Banana lotion left that I have been saving for a long time now. I would love to see that make a comeback, but I seriously doubt it ever will.