Marduk wrote:
psychoviper wrote:
When we do get anything, it seems to be months later than other places, and they disappear FAST (I'm talking in a day), never to be seen again.
And I think that is the crux of the problem. Around here, what stock comes in, flies out fast. Walmart put out their first case in almost two months on Friday afternoon or evening (I was in Friday morning) and everything but Duke sold by Saturday morning. I'm in this Walmart daily and I
know they haven't been putting stuff out regularly. This is a super-center - a well-traveled super-center. (I can't vouch for the other Walmarts in town as they're not within daily driving distance.)
Target is the same way. Little-to-no stock for weeks on end, a case comes in, and sells out almost instantly. The exclusives never showed.
TRU has stocked twice in the past three weeks - again, stuff sells out immediately.
The
only things in abundance around here are comic sets.
If we're still at the point where a number of people have to drive out of their way to get figures, there's a problem.
On the bright side, with fall resets coming up, we
may see more stock.
~Marduk
Yep, this is exactly the problem. Stores do have reorders in too, due to having a product that's selling well. From everything I've seen in retail, the faster something sells, the more extra you get in within the next shipments. If there's no products from the manufacturer, then you're just out of luck cause the store can't do anything about it.
That's what I'm seeing in my area. Only 1 or 2 cases make it to a store and goes out. It sells through within that 1 day and there's nothing to replace the figures. No more reorders come in unless it's several weeks later. Then you still end up witht he same problem.
There should be 5 - 6 cases with a follow up of 2 - 4 cases after 2 weeks. This would still sell out, but be enough for those actively trying to get the figures to be able to find them.
