[Phantomcrow]

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Originally Posted by donmeca2020

Too bad we don't have anybody on the boards that actually works at walmart,target, TRU etc to tell us what's the secret with their ordering delays and what not.

i mean common sense would tell all of us, i guess the stores aren't ordering as much due to the fact they have an overstock of older waves at each location. i've been to walmarts,one target store, TRU and they all have Cap wave 1, and left over spider-man absorbing man figures. im sure each store probably have pallets full of these things... i don't buy whenever you ask a store clerk, if they have anymore in the back then their response is "No". You honestly mean to tell me these big mega locations only get one or 2 cases at a time at their locations? i mean cmon...... i think it's a factor of laziness on the employees part and of course the store has too many of the current waves.

Personally i think they ( the stores ) are trying to get rid of current stock but unforunately no one is buying them. due to the fact everyone has gotten what they want from them at this point.

Welllllllll.... I just so happen to work in receiving at Wal-Mart. I see everything that comes off the truck when I am at work. AND I can tell you from first hand experience that 9 times out of 10 we get 1, YES 1, case of any given figure line at a time. Unless the toy aisle is getting reset ( which only happens about once a quarter) we will get in 1 case of Legends, DC Multiverse, Transformers, ect at a time. The ONLY time we get an abundance of a line is if it is for a feature. A feature is going to be an end aisle display or a floor display that goes in the middle of the main aisles. Like when Civil War came out we got a display that had 2 cases worth of the Onslaught wave in it. And once that product gets sold enough that the display is partly empty it will get put in the regular spot in the aisle and cleared for a new product to display. AND yes ALL Cap Legends are under the same sku no matter the WAVE. Same goes for Spidey Legends ect.. So when a store has , lets say 3 pegs for Cap legends, that means about 15-18 figures depending on how crammed the peg gets. (but the store usually goes with what a peg can hold without cramming) So Legends come in a case of 8, so 2 cases would be 16 figures, so enough to fill the pegs and have an extra as they see it. So since that sku is the same in their system no matter the wave, if the 3 pegs are full of previous waves the system will not automatically order any more because the inventory tells them that the stock is at max capacity for the assigned spot on the shelf. SO unless the current stock sells, they have no reason to get more in because it is all the same product to them.
Hope that all made sense, got a little long there.

P.S. We just got 1 single case in this week of the new Transformers Titans Returns figures. Just 1 case because we are still sitting on a few of the Combiners wars figures.

P.P.S. We HATE having anything in the back stock room, We will do almost anything to not have product back there. Most of what gets put in back is food, baby, pets, and general bulk merch. Toys has one of the smallest backstock areas in the back room and most of what ends up back there are stupid stuff like Hulk Hands and child movie tie in crap. There is almost a 0% chance that FIGURES that members of this forum would be wanting are not put out the night that they came off of the truck.