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Many casual fans will simply shrug at the loss of the retail outlet, which they see as just a more expensive alternative to the low prices of Walmart.

For the people that have a Walmart around. I have to go to another state if i want to walk into a Walmart. Kmart is also closing stores, there's going to be a bunch of people that have nothing close to them but a mom & pop stores that's half filled with pharmacy toys.

The only thing i got near me that's not an hour trip is a Target. And that place is only good for Star Wars and Marvel stuff. For some reason half of their toy stock seems to be blind bag stuff.

i dont even have a comic shop near me. All this does is actually drive my shopping to be basically almost totally online. So i guess online won if this is the reason this is happening. Which i don't think it is totally.

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Originally Posted by Iceman

Do they charge a ton of money for shipping? I don't order their stuff but shipping costs money. The myth created by the Amazons and Walmart's is that delivering you something is worthless. Smaller companies cannot afford to lose money like that. What may cost Amazon pennies costs others dollars, which add up.

A lot of people order online but the collector can be hard to please. Many prefer retail when possible to scrutinize paint apps or box wear. There is a reason Amazon has started closing accounts of people that return too many things or have too many problems. Heck, a lot of retail stores are ditching price matching and lowering return time limits.

I'm sure there is opportunity if TRU goes under but I'm not sure who exactly stands to benefit the most. The whole market is already suffering and it may just be that the loss of a giant like TRU only ends up balancing things out a bit.

For a 24 dollar fig their shipping was 13 bucks last time i checked, that's half the price of the fig. They need to figure something out because Amazon and Walmart are not the only places that can ship one Neca figure for half their shipping cost.