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Originally Posted by Peteparker

Sales history CANT play a major factor in case assortments, because not all retailers keep track of how each individual UPC sells.

I wasn't talking about retail sales. I was actually talking about wholesale numbers that Hasbro would actually have, such as how many cases of a given product a given retailer ordered.

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It's altogether possible that someone who knows nothing about what 'fans' want is in charge of these choices, but I don't think it's the marketing department. More than likely, the retailers have a say themselves, and generally have no clue.

The retailers might have some say in the most general terms (such as more "big name" characters, less obscure), but I doubt they have much more pull beyond that. Which is also why I don't believe the case ratios are completely random. The fact that there's a specific ratio at all is proof that it is not truly "random".

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Makes me wonder if buying all those Flesh Abby Men and Falcons at one store and returning them to another counts as a sale for that figure.... Rut Roh Reorge...

Don't worry. Due to the POS system they use, any sales will still just register as an MU purchase, not an MU Falcon/Creel purchase (even if Walmart's inventory tracks the characters individually).