Originally posted by: ricarleite
What is the difference between the date that it is shipped, and the day it is sold? I refuse to belive the Wii consoles would be on the back of the stores for two months!

I don't know about 2 months, but I used to work at Best Buy and they get stuff in at least 2 weeks before their "street date" as it's called. Companies are *very* serious about these street dates. Selling one before then could get them in real trouble, like not geting stock until the day of, or two days late. I don't know what they do, but stores follow this street date thing. I don't recall anything being stored for more than 2 weeks before street date, but then we didn't have that much space for that kind of thing. More than likely, for a chain like Best Buy it would go to the warehouse for those two months and then get distributed to the stores a week or two prior.