[Captain Nash]

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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.

I don't think it's just TRU either. This definitely ties into the coding with the waves (not the item number but the abbreviation code.) If true they look at the amount of SPD product they have, regardless of it's the current wave, or two years back, and consider the same, same for any other "brand". It's why with the fluke exception of the GOTG wave 2, it's easy to find the first wave in a while of the brand but harder with second, third, etc, within a couple of years.

Think about the Civil War 3 waves. First wave no problem, in general. Second wave definitely harder to find eventually could find most. Third wave, retail was pretty much a joke. And because we tend to have 2 waves of Spider-Man brand every year, it's a recurring problem, yearly.