[Jerseysteel]

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Originally Posted by Kirathis

I suspect a huge part of both of these reasons is because TRU probably looks at their Legends as "Captain America Legends", "Spider-Man Legends", "X-Men Legends" and does not differentiate to the wave level. Their mentality is that they are stocked on a category of Legends and that if they are not selling then it is the line that is not performing well. As such, flooding their shelves with stock from closed stores should of course boost their sales because now they have more of <insert type> Legends. This is not entirely just speculation on my part. An employee at the TRU back where I lived in IL told me they would not let the local store order new waves at the moment because they were "fully stocked on Legends". This guy and a couple of other members of the store understood the way Legends and some other toy lines worked with continuous waves but the higher ups would not listen. This was despite the fact their entire stock was, at the minimum, 3 waves behind.

They are obviously out of touch with the way any type of continuous waves toy lines actually work and instead of working to clear their shelves of older stock and always try to have the newest items available they will continue to flounder and just say that the line does not perform well. Even when the now one TRU on my side of KC gets a different wave, they are generally so far behind that everyone already purchased that wave somewhere else. The other store that just closed was so far behind that they got the Giant Man wave in after the next 2 waves were already out.

This does not even take into account how bad their online "pre-order" system tends to be.

Absolutely, they are entirely out of touch with how current toy lines work. It's just funny to see stores like Target and Walmart have a better understanding of toys than a store with the word toy in their name. I mean Target and Walmart both liquidated old stock around the same time, right before all these new waves were set to hit.