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Jeddostotle7 · 03-05-2018, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

It's actually a company policy, but it's enforcement will vary from store to store. This is to help mostly with headaches like partial cases and loss prevention during inventory season. Employees however are often secret shopped at most large retailers as a part of their evaluation, and are often encouraged to check stockrooms for items as a part of the secret shopper process, so it becomes moot point.

Some stores however will catch on to certain practices of collectors and scalpers through customer complaints however, and will more strongly enforce these rules for certain items deemed "collectibles" (such as action figures and Funko Pops) as well as hot items (like the Hatchimals craze a year or two ago.) My local Targets actually had signs posted in their toy aisles for over a year and stuck to it, due to local scalpers doing their business right out in front of the store in the parking lot during the Star Wars seasons.

This very much. I feel everyone's pain when it comes to not finding what they're looking for, but the brickseek updates and phantom empty handed stocking reports are getting really repetitive.

These figures can be all found online through many of the e-tailers (which have gotten better at stocking individual figures for each wave now...provided you pre-order.) A great deal of them can also be found now on eBay, at very minimal mark-up, especially if you are buying loose. Unless you are trying to build a BAF or are a MOC collector, there's always alternatives, unless you REALLY enjoy burning gas, dealing with traffic, wasting time and being let down by your local retailers.

Huh, despite having worked at Target, I'd never heard of that policy before. Glad that's the case, as it doesn't imply the potential imminent widespread adoption of the policy as I previously thought.

And I definitely agree for the most part with the "don't bother hunting, just order online" sentiment, but Target has that $12.29 sale for Spider-Man Legends until the 10th, and I gotta take advantage of that for the Lizard wave while I can. As I said, if not for that sale, I would not be hunting right now, except maybe very casually for the popular ones that are already sold out online.

03-05-2018, 06:41 PM	#39291
Jeddostotle7 Join Date: Sep 2016 Posts: 1,340	Quote: Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic It's actually a company policy, but it's enforcement will vary from store to store. This is to help mostly with headaches like partial cases and loss prevention during inventory season. Employees however are often secret shopped at most large retailers as a part of their evaluation, and are often encouraged to check stockrooms for items as a part of the secret shopper process, so it becomes moot point. Some stores however will catch on to certain practices of collectors and scalpers through customer complaints however, and will more strongly enforce these rules for certain items deemed "collectibles" (such as action figures and Funko Pops) as well as hot items (like the Hatchimals craze a year or two ago.) My local Targets actually had signs posted in their toy aisles for over a year and stuck to it, due to local scalpers doing their business right out in front of the store in the parking lot during the Star Wars seasons. This very much. I feel everyone's pain when it comes to not finding what they're looking for, but the brickseek updates and phantom empty handed stocking reports are getting really repetitive. These figures can be all found online through many of the e-tailers (which have gotten better at stocking individual figures for each wave now...provided you pre-order.) A great deal of them can also be found now on eBay, at very minimal mark-up, especially if you are buying loose. Unless you are trying to build a BAF or are a MOC collector, there's always alternatives, unless you REALLY enjoy burning gas, dealing with traffic, wasting time and being let down by your local retailers. Huh, despite having worked at Target, I'd never heard of that policy before. Glad that's the case, as it doesn't imply the potential imminent widespread adoption of the policy as I previously thought. And I definitely agree for the most part with the "don't bother hunting, just order online" sentiment, but Target has that $12.29 sale for Spider-Man Legends until the 10th, and I gotta take advantage of that for the Lizard wave while I can. As I said, if not for that sale, I would not be hunting right now, except maybe very casually for the popular ones that are already sold out online. Last edited by Jeddostotle7; 03-05-2018 at 06:48 PM..