The stores around here seemed to have skipped the sale part of things. Seeds are just gone.

The grocery had seeds 1/2 off, it wasnt advertised or posted tho, I was going to buy them anyway. Now they're just gone. POOF!

One of our local nurseries just started selling their seeds for 50% off. They still had a half decent variety left.

My Wally Word sent all their seeds back to the warehouse 2 weeks ago! No sale at Menards yet, but 2 local nurseries had theirs 50% off also.
Maggie

What about the online sites, I remember a flurry of posts for Value Seeds & Big Lots but I can't remember when.

Unfortunately, I've not noticed any sales locally. Most seeds have just disappeared from the shelves without warning and no sale :( At least I was able to find a few seeds I wanted from a local hardware/seed store, but no sale and dwindling supplies.

I am going to keep my eye on valueseed's site. I seem to remember last year sometime in the fall maybe, there were 9 or 10 pages of seeds. Hopefully once T & M goes through their inventory, they'll add more to valueseeds. We'll have to lkeep each other apprised of any seed sale developments, thus enabling our habit once again ;)

I ordered from Park's 35% off sale last mid-November and I vaguely recall that was toward the end of the sale.

I think I found 75% off T&M at a local retailer in September...seems to me they send back all their overstock by end of July??? Not sure..might have been early Oct, but basically, I'd say you can certainly ask the store what their schedule is with their vendors.

When I was down at Parks for their Flower Day, their seeds were all 50% off. That doesn't help much now but if anyone is close keep it mind for next year.

After doing a search on here, I *believe* valueseeds updates their site in either November or January. A little vague but I read both.

And what is with the stores just yanking away the seeds, 1 week they have 5 racks, the next week there's just an empty space!

NIT- that would be the sending-seeds-back-to-the-vendors thing that I mentioned. They can send back certain batches, and/or certain numbers of each type for credit, and have to keep the rest, but they have to be returned by a specific date.

Large stores like WM probably won't give you the time of day if you inquire, but I'd guess that smaller retailers/nurseries and/or grain stores would give you the answers you need as far as when they expect to 'reduce their inventory' and return seeds to vendors.