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02-14-2008, 11:42 PM | #21 |
www.kingphilbert.com
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Mtns of Northeast PA
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Just tonight my Walmart looked as if it was resetting it's dept. After all the Valentine's Day crap is gone they have room to spread and such large sections of the action figure aisles were bare with tags. My Toys R Us reset between today and last weekend as well. All the single figs were on a large end cap. The just didn't have many.
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02-15-2008, 12:16 AM | #22 |
Father of a little Viper
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Columbia Missouri
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Its funny out of the 5 wal marts in town, all of them have gotten figures in but 1. That 1 wal mart has never gotten any figures in for months, i asked. They have the pegs for them but they never come in...I am looking forward to a spring reset, it should make finding figures a little bit easier...
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02-15-2008, 01:22 AM | #23 |
Behind Enemy Lines
Join Date: Sep 2007
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I wasn't having any luck at my local WM so I spoke with the store manager! That's right...I'm not a freakin' kid anymore...I can talk to the manager now!! He honestly had no idea how fast these were flying off the pegs. I explained the "scalper" theory and he said, "I can believe it". He then walked to the toy dept. with me and called the toy manager over. He scanned the pegs and saw that she had 2 cases ordered. He asked, "Why only 2 cases?" Her reply was...and I quote, "The GI JOEs just don't seem to sell". ????? There we stood, staring at 6 empty pegs! The manager looked at me, I looked at him, and we both looked at her as if to say "you freakin idiot!!" He immediately placed an order for 6 more cases!
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02-15-2008, 01:29 AM | #24 |
Mobile Missile Specialist
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: RI
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they can expand the section all they want here...it'll just be a bigger empty spot as they never have anything
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02-15-2008, 01:39 AM | #25 |
aka the Funny Man...
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: North Royalton, Ohio
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SnakeEyes
I wasn't having any luck at my local WM so I spoke with the store manager! That's right...I'm not a freakin' kid anymore...I can talk to the manager now!! He honestly had no idea how fast these were flying off the pegs. I explained the "scalper" theory and he said, "I can believe it". He then walked to the toy dept. with me and called the toy manager over. He scanned the pegs and saw that she had 2 cases ordered. He asked, "Why only 2 cases?" Her reply was...and I quote, "The GI JOEs just don't seem to sell". ????? There we stood, staring at 6 empty pegs! The manager looked at me, I looked at him, and we both looked at her as if to say "you freakin idiot!!" He immediately placed an order for 6 more cases!
I was amazed that one of my local Walmarts got four cases in at once. I talked to one of the department managers at another local Walmart and they only order two at a time. |
02-15-2008, 01:41 AM | #26 |
Behind Enemy Lines
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 437
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I think I just got lucky 'cause it looked like the manager was in the middle of something he really didn't want to be involved in! I think he just saw me as an opportunity to exit stage left!
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02-15-2008, 10:29 AM | #27 |
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Sep 2007
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Originally Posted by Roadblock
Well, here is what I was told by a toy manager stalking the Joes today, which by the way were stuffed full, the first time ever that I have seen this. He said that the Joe section is going to be bigger come April. He did not give specifics but said the is going to be a lot more shipments including single, comics, and vehicles! He said Hasbro was going to do a big push for the movie. So take this as a rumor but it sounded promising because he said there is a new reset and a lot of new sque #'s.
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02-15-2008, 12:53 PM | #28 |
Official know it all
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 3,797
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SnakeEyes
I wasn't having any luck at my local WM so I spoke with the store manager! That's right...I'm not a freakin' kid anymore...I can talk to the manager now!! He honestly had no idea how fast these were flying off the pegs. I explained the "scalper" theory and he said, "I can believe it". He then walked to the toy dept. with me and called the toy manager over. He scanned the pegs and saw that she had 2 cases ordered. He asked, "Why only 2 cases?" Her reply was...and I quote, "The GI JOEs just don't seem to sell". ????? There we stood, staring at 6 empty pegs! The manager looked at me, I looked at him, and we both looked at her as if to say "you freakin idiot!!" He immediately placed an order for 6 more cases!
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02-15-2008, 01:25 PM | #29 |
Father of a little Viper
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Columbia Missouri
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Every store i talk to tells me that they know how popular these figures are, they just can't keep them on the shelf. Which in some ways isn't true. When all the figures are gone, the pegs stay empty for a long time. If they knew how fast these figures were selling, they would have ordered more cases. I think they know, they just don't know how to order accordingly yet...
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02-16-2008, 12:44 PM | #30 |
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: MO
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around here we seem to only get a case at a time and if your not there on that day your just out of luck.
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