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08-02-2010, 09:04 PM
CrimsonGuard101
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Okay today was sort of a waste to even go looking but its my only day i can waste the whole day for this week to try. Heres the route:
City View Target- Nothing ont he shelf cept vehicles/mechs
Arlington Target- same as above, figure pegs totally empty with a grey sticker on them
Arlington TRU = nothing of interest
Target on south 360/Sublett = nothing
Target on Carrier PKWY and I-20= nothing
Duncanville TRU = nothing
Duncanville Target- Picked up an Archangel with wings and a Havoc, not seen them before I was not certain if any of you need those so if you do let me know. Grabbed an Aim soldier for myself, kinda interesting looking, going to paint him up in black and grey though, they pee yellow is unbecomming lol...
I got frustrated at this point so I had the Duncanville peeps look at the comuters (hate doing that ruins the fun of rolling in and finding them but I needed to get the day going) So they said that Target off NW Hwy had 12 and Medallion Square off Skillman had 12 so I picked the NWY Target.
I get there and they had nothing. Had an employee who walked up to me askin gif I needed help finding a product lol...ok so I say scan this and tell me where the 12 figures are. He says they are pre-loaded for wednesday...ok great thanks for wasting my time last Duncanville Target. So I have him pull his tricorder and let me know my next wasted stop- he says Medallion Sqr. and Irving stores but feels Irving 183/Beltline would me my best bet cause they showed 16 and Medallion showed 12 like them. So I bolt over to Irving 183. Hit gold finnally and got the one beach head they had left. They had 2 Dukes and a Snowjob left, if they had 16 then they were not going to let me have em as they refused to check in back. They also Had 2 Juggernaghts which I left and picked up 2 more Aim Troopers and a Kitty Pryde if anyone needs that...I don't. So from there I was about to just go home but 121/183 traffic was horrid so I decided to try 121/Glade. Of course not a single thing on the pegs. So I tumble around the isles and find a guy stocking star wars shit. I asked hey could you help me see if any other targets in the area have these joe figures? He says no they are not shipping yet. I querry further saying the irving store had them and sent me here. He said oh my bad, calls his manager and says "go up front they will print you a list of all stores that have them" I am thinking ok cool thanks. Go up front and the girl gives me the following list:
Lewisville- 12
Flower Mound - 24
North Irving- 1
Great thank you, bolt out the door thinking wow 24 at flower mound I gotta get there. I arrive and what do I find? They have not even done their reset! Not even the star wars stuff was put out in full yet but a guy was stockig them. I ask him hey wheres the new Joe stuff? He said "we are not putting that out till Aug 25th". I am like WTF. He said due to the losses in revenue and sales of ROC Joe products his manager did not want Joe product out till they get closer to September...
WTF IS THAT ALL ABOUT!?? I swear these dingbats that run these local retailers are totally determined to drive GI JOE into the earth. I wish there was a way I could let Hasbro know what that store is doing and how that can definelty hurt this line if it would even do any good to do so. He was at least honest about it so I took off from there and my last ditch try at Lewisville Target and of course they were exaclty the same as Flower Mound, no Star Wars no Joes period not even pegs for em. They did have 3 Punishers though so I grabbed one of those as I di dnto expect to find him ever.
So last 3 stops were Lewisville TRU = 1 Duke, TRU Express at Grapevine mills mall= waste of my time, and NRH TRU. IThey had a lone Storm Shadow which I grabbed sinc eI want 3 more of those but that was it. Asked some guy I never seen there before if they planned to get anymore any time soon as he fully stocked more stupid ass star wars figures and all he said was "nope, sorry you missed em all" I was like yeah fuck you too...
All Walmarts in between there I checked about 5 did not have a single POC figure, tons of ROC crap though, couple had wolf hounds and 1 hiss but that was it.
Arrgh..
Anyway if you guys want any of that stuff I listed up for grabs lemme know, If not I will take them back later in the week. Anyone finds an extra POC Flirefly think of me please
I just need one more for ma custom.
GL on Wednesday, sounds like that may be the day a lot will have them restocked on yall's side which a few of the more helpful employees told me to come back on, which I work that day so I won't be back over there maybe until next week. Who knows when our side will ever get them, or restock them at this point....
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