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EnigmaticClarity said:
I called a nearby Target, and the employee said they had it as Popfindr shows but that their system was showing a street date of July 20th.

And I also just saw that MCUCollector24 went to a store near him, an employee went and got it out of the back and gave it to him, and he tried to buy it--but nope, it was register locked. Another random Target fuck-up as usual since there's no reason to restrict sale to Sunday.

At this point I don't think there's any reason to question why this happens. Their inventory system is just consistently terrible in multiple random ways, and they don't care at all. Their system is actually pretty great, but the people managing and using it aren't. They used to use that system well prior to about 2022, but not anymore. My guess has always been there was some management change around then, and the new management just doesn't care about strict inventory control.

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Years ago when I worked retail, all the Sunday restrictions were because it was going to be in the ad and you needed to have product for the day the ad broke.

I'm not defending Target here. What I am doing is questioning why this is still a practice. Do they still do flyers? I can't think of the last time I've seen one at a Walmart.

I kind of miss when there was an order to things. New Media Tuesday. Product held for Sunday and must go out.

It's all chaos now. Chaos.
 
They do digital flyers, but not many physical ones. It’s silly no one has the authority to just override the lock-out.
 
Misfit said:
They do digital flyers, but not many physical ones. It’s silly no one has the authority to just override the lock-out.
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Seriously. All my old managers would have taken the sale because all they cared about was the daily sales figures and making the customer happy.

Couldn't do that on like a PlayStation game breaking street, but they made us go through hell or high water to find the McFarlane sports, Chase figures or the rare Marvel Legends and don't get me started on Hot Wheels people.

Especially if it's already on the shelf. That's on the store and we ate it.
 
It is a pretty fucked up policy to literally take toys out of the hands of crying children to adhere to some arbitrary sale date. The toy my kid was denied the other day is no longer on the Target website so I’m left to assume they got a lot of complaints from irritated parents who experienced something similar.

EDIT: Actually, the stupid dog is back up now and available for purchase so they must have removed the street date. Would have been nice if the store rep who contacted me yesterday had reached back out to let me know.
 
I'm of two minds on this: it's clearly set to be on shelf on Sunday. If it's on the shelf now, they should sell it because they didn't listen. But if everyone goes today and has it pulled from the back, there will be no stock on Sunday and that's also not cool.

So yes I want toys NOW but I also think it's fine for the store to set a date where the whole aisle is turned over with new product that is actually in stock. Granted, that stock will literally last for two customers who will order online for in-store pick-up and said stock will never hit the aisle. And back in ye olden years, we wouldn't know whether they had anything in the back. I'm guessing the FF figures are also going to be on-shelf this Sunday but since they are still "not listed" in Target's system no one is hassling about those.
 
altcunningham said:
I'm not defending Target here. What I am doing is questioning why this is still a practice. Do they still do flyers? I can't think of the last time I've seen one at a Walmart.
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They do. I see them online, but I have NEVER seen them put any Legends figures in them. They definitely haven't for most of the sets they've had register locked. I've seen the printed ones in the stores before, but I haven't looked for them in years so it's possible they don't print them. But they do keep compiling them every week so they must print them somewhere.

I look the flyers up online sometimes a few days before they release because they usually advertise their toy sales in them, so when I look at them I flip right to the toy page. That's how I've noticed no Legends in them.
 
On the wrestling side of things, a guy on a different board said he got this Sunday's street dated WWE figures when the supervisor said to scan a figure from the previous wave. Which just happened to be a $6 clearance figure.

My store doesn't care about set or transition dates. There's no way anything will be available on Sunday and everything will be stuck in the back on pallet. They were a good four or five weeks late for the last one.
 
Yeah street dates suck.

I got an order in for Psylocke, why do I always feel like I need to go hunt? Like, I'm making plans to go hit my Targets early this Sunday......but I don't NEED to, it's coming to me. Why am I this way????
 
yojoebro82 said:
Yeah street dates suck.

I got an order in for Psylocke, why do I always feel like I need to go hunt? Like, I'm making plans to go hit my Targets early this Sunday......but I don't NEED to, it's coming to me. Why am I this way????
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You're a wild animal, and like all wild animals you have a genetic need to hunt. Pre-ordering doesn't fulfill a collector's primal instinct.

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I preordered Cap and Venom yesterday at Gamestop. I just can't resist getting a Cap with butterfly shoulders. May ditch the Venom as I don't need a blue one. No sure yet.
 
Hunting always felt like grandiose language for popping into retail stores to see if there happen to be any figures. It's really much closer to the gatherer style of collection, but no one wants to say they're going foraging for toys.

Now, if you chase the delivery trucks down to nab the figures in transit, or ambush a scalper going from the store to their car - THAT'S a toy hunt.
 
If I have to participate or partake in any activity requires me to go into a store and market and paying with money or a credit card in exchange for goods, it’s not foraging, and it’s not hunting, it’s just shopping. Or bartering/trading if you want to use a more a more traditional form of language that describes the mercantile process.

Hunting denotes that you are honoring the thing that you are capturing. There is a rigorous process that is always associated with hunting. Whether it’s a trial by fire aspect of training yourself or someone else to partake in this activity. You have to learn about your prey and find their game trail. Then you would have to set traps and lure your prey into that trap in order to successfully catch it or kill it. Then you would have to make your weapon while a mage or high priestess adorned you in face paint and blessed you for the hunt that you are about to partake in, in the hopes that you don’t die and bring your tribe good fortune. And then, if the hunt is successful, you enjoy a hearty banquet over the the thing that you successfully brought down and that act that would hopefully make you a warrior amongst your people as you are given gifts adorned in furs, jewelry and are offered the opportunity o feast on the the heart of your prey to signify your vigor and warrior spirit.

None of this happens when purchasing toys. You are giving a shopkeeper your credit card information. It’s a bit more of an affluent and evolved exercise than simply acting like a cave man and pretending you are off to kill a mastodon lol

Get with the times people…


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