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Originally Posted by PlayTime

I've seen that at too many stores and even talked out loud when an employee is standing by, that they should be marked to $5 in order to sell otherwise they will survive the apocalypse.

The problem with clearance is that the store takes a bigger hit on their investment, which in turn makes them leery of ordering more of that same toy line.

You have to keep in mind many stores, especially the big retail chains, don't look at the sales per individual figure, and look at the stocked up as the line as a whole not moving anymore.

This is also why rebranding happens so often to lines. So to a retailer it's not that same line that clogged shelves(even though it was one figure) it's a new line that has yet to prove itself of a property that's mostly already proven itself. Rebranding makes a line the fresh new thing even though it's really still the same old thing only refreshed to get the new figures out and around that backlog of one character that clogged shelves.