[Peteparker]

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Originally Posted by JustryGT

It might be more clever if you have Walmart buy 7 figures at retail price that you just brought over from China. But Walmart already paid Hasbro for the 7 figures and then had to pay for them again because of this stunt.

First Walmart sold $8.00 x 7 = $56.00 (for simplicity lets say their cost was $3.00 each), so they made a profit of $5.00 x 7 = $35.00 profit
Second Walmart buys them for $56.00 then sells them all eventually at $2.00 x 7 = $14.00 >>> $56.00 - $14.00 = $42.00 loss - $35.00 ( profit made earlier at First Walmart ) =
$7.00 total loss. (ok so nothing to cry about)

I am not the one that knows what the store actually pays per figure. It would be great if they only pay Hasbro $2.00 per figure, then this stunt only forces Walmart to give them up at cost.
My second concern was not whether or not this steals from Walmarts profits , rather if it steals from their investment into this product. I should also point out that I am not trying to stick up for them as I am aware that it is the store's fault for letting this happen.

I fully understand that based on your perspective and morals, this could be considered stealing.

Two counter points I'll bring up are that 1, the returned-to Walmart has not yet sold the remaining 5, and still has the ability to sell them at full price. Secondly, I could not confirm the price of the other 6, as I only bought one. It's possible they're staggered prices based on the age of the figure, especially since the other two clearanced figures I previously found there were $4 a piece.

I personally don't think Walmart as a conglomerate, or even a customer of Hasbro will allow such a minor difference to stop distributing the product altogether. The cut of the product from one store certainly had no effect on the rest of the stores continuing to carry it.

Based on the prices these items are offered at when ordering directly from Hasbro or through Diamond distribution, Walmart is almost certainly completely screwing Hasbro on the price. According to Dateline's Walmart special, this is common practice for the store, to tell the manufacturer that they will not carry the product unless it is offered at their price (lower than anywhere else).