A
reader who is both a nanny and Baby Gap employee shares her insights on the best
time to shop for deals at Baby
Gap:

Most markdowns occur on
Tuesday night, effective Wednesday morning. On rare occasions we have Sunday
morning markdowns.

Most new items go on
sale within a month(but how
the item sells
well determine when it gets marked down). The items that end

in .97 are at the lowest price the company
will give them. The company
calls this the
kill price. After 14 days at the .97 price, the company

gives each store the authority based on their
own sell through to cut that
price in half(ig.
$14.97 after 14 days goes to $7.97). These prices can be

recognized by a green or yellow slash through
the barcode and a date on the
back of the tag.
Again these kill prices are determined by the management

at each store, and if a store doesn’t have the
size you need they can try to
find it for you
at another store, but the store may have not killed the

price. Basically, the price is killed to get
rid of it!

The best time to shop is
obviously on a Wednesday morning, however, if

you have the company credit card( Gapcard) the
first tuesday of the month
you get 10% off
everything. The credit card is actually a pretty good deal

because the consumer saves 15-20% off at time
of opening and for ever $250
they add up
between Gap, Old Navy, and Banana Repulic they get a $10 reward

certificate to use at any of the 3 stores. As
you know you can add $250 up
pretty fast! The
company has also put alot of money into giving credit card

holders coupons and discounts
continuously.(their goal is to reward the

faithful
customer).

As far as other ways
to save there is always the 10% discount you

can get from taking the register survey(it
prints out every other customer).
If you
have friends or family working there, they can give you invites to

the Friends and Family day event, which I
believe currently is twice a
year(before back
to school and then at Holiday). This invite offers usually

30% off everything you buy for a 3-day weekend
(dates given by company)!