They put an end to the garage sales at the flagship store in Seattle.

I think a 'sale' should be more than just overstocks in bins. REI usually DOESN'T have across the floor sales events, it's select items only. Like right now, I doubt any bike lighting systems are on sale on the floor, maybe one or two lame C cell halogen/blinkie combo packs.

REI sales items are the undersold, overstocked, dogs of retail the REI buyers went crazy on.

I monitor REI pretty closely, and have a friend high up at corporate that's shared some of REI's dirty little secrets with me. And I've been a member for almost 30 years.