[Runamuck]

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Originally Posted by Alyosha

That's why I went ahead and ordered my set when they were up on TRU.com . With the first series being somewhat lackluster and overordered to boot, I thought it might be a while before these actually hit the shelves. TRU most likely has an auto order program at the distribution center that will only refill items as they sell through to minimize in store inventory backstock.

Any of you guys who work there care to enlighten if you can?

I don't know the intricacies of the process. I just know the store manager orders the product for the store. Our store manager....isn't the brightest. And I don't like TRU's system anyways.

We've been sitting on the same EXACT Joe figures that came in before the grand opening, which was in October. SAME EXACT ones. We haven't gotten any new cases....nothing...since then. TRU needs to get a system that can differentiate between old crap and newer assortments. That way we can get them in even though we haven't sold through the old crap yet. We're also still sitting on the old Wave 1 vehicles that came in before the opening, and the same comic packs....

The same goes for Transformers Universe deluxe figures at our store. We're still selling through our initial shipments from before the grand opening. We still have a lot on the pegs, and we have like 8 million cases in the back. We're NEVER going to see anything new until the new year when the SKN numbers probably change.

Our store gets in a WHOLE pallet's worth of some American Idol game.....and this is a 4-foot pallet....and no Joes.....no vehicles...no nothing for Joes except Combat Heroes and TRU 5-packs. I just don't get it.

So, no...no enlightening coming from me. I'm just as lost as you are about the way TRU runs things.