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Originally Posted by K Dubious

Thanks Homie!



Are your Spider-Senses tingling?

Man am I glad that the new wave is finally shipping, hopfully in about a month or so I can pull the entire wave off HTS. I'm not gonna lie I am a bit nervous about Emma, but I know I will find her one way or another.

UKMU - I plan to put Emma with my Astonishing X-men since she more or less completes that team

Yeah too bad that HTS code expires today I believe, would have liked to use it on the newest wave.

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Originally Posted by Snowflakian

That's accurate.
Walmart does have an extensive inventory system.

Similar practices as say TRU and Target for the inventory ordering. It's not automated. Well, not fully at least. It's supposed to be but there are still employees that put in the orders based on their own criteria in conjunction to the rest of the sales data they have. It's done this way because there are factors on releases that computer data alone can't do, but once you factor in the human element is also where bigger problems start popping up too.

Walmart's inventory system is different though than TRU's. Walmart does track cases by individual figures though they order by the case. Walmart has more accurate sales data as to which characters themselves sell and how fast, but how much that data effects their ordering has never been reflected and there's no data to correlate if it impacts what they ask for on orders.

Toys R Us on the other hand has an inventory system that goes by case assortments/toy lines. Essentially if there's more than 1 character per case, it all has the same inventory number. This is why when a new assortment shows up at TRU it's not always in the system. The old number hasn't been synced up to the new assortment yet. (The TRU DCPI hadn't been assigned to that toyline wave's barcodes yet.)

For a store that's supposed to specialize in toys, they do have the weakest inventory system out of the major retailers.

No kidding, totally agree with you there. You would think they would be able to restock a plenty instead of 2-3 months out is what it seems like on the hot stuff.