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Originally Posted by JPs

Where do you live? A little before, then during & after pandemic stocking of anything Hasbro has been terrible where I am. Exclusives no matter the store lucky to come to stores here, some never do. Never had the ghost of a chance of getting Moon Knight, which is more unfortunate with the new series coming out. The Fantastic Four stuff was just kind of weird in how they came out. That's just talking that store. And I've been checking the army builders, they haven't been restocked. I even communicate with their customer service & its just, "oh sorry, we don't know when anything happens." Quality in some respects is obvious less while they have raised the price AGAIN. & there isn't a real excuse for the supply issues on everything.
Even GI Joe, lucky to get anything good, while the the figs for the movie I don't even know where it is to watch, are still so much on the shelf they're practically falling off.
There are so many obvious things they could be doing for the fans, too. Like where's more D&D stuff? Dr'zzt was great. & there's dumb things they do like the latest Walmart exclusive Dr. Strange would be perfect except for some reason they decided suddenly his cape should be fused to his chest?

Why are u coming up with excuses like that? How would you know? Do you work for them? If they had no interest in toys, why are they still getting exclusives?

I don't work for Walgreens, but I know it's the same story there that's behind every exclusive figure at every retailer ever: they employee someone who buys the product and he/she/they get the cool exclusives for the stores, but then it's turned over to a corporate controlled logistics distribution structure of managers down to the employees who only see the stock numbers and stock the shelfs with the product that they receive, most if not all not knowing, or in most cases caring, about who or what a Silver Centurion or a Moon Knight is let alone the difference.

Walgreens has always had issues in this regard, because often times they have too many stores and too many instances of an Ant Man or a Medusa clocking up the shelf space for the SKU at retailer to distribute these things perfectly. It's gotten a little better over the past 5/6 years since they started carrying toys (and doing more much needed clearance sales), but hey, I never saw Moon Knight, either. My Agent Venom I found at a Walgreens about an hour away, and I never saw him again. The Punisher I got already on sale for $10 at the time. I think I only ever saw Sue and Johnny multiple times, Reed a few and the Thing maybe once/twice ever? I saw Emma in store once or twice, Magik a bunch of times, but not Dani who I eventually had to get at BBTS. But, I could have army built yellow Daredevils for days, one store near me sat on like six of him for like four years. You get the picture.

And last year didn't help, everyone everywhere had distribution problems especially for toys. That's definitely not secret insider info, or make believe to get collectors to stop whining, just see like every news site on the internet last year. Actually important stuff got held up by over seas shipping issues, not just our toys, but they all ran some kind of "Toys might be hard to find at Christmas!" puff piece. But anyway, while Target, Walmart, and particularly Amazon found ways to get product like toys for the fourth quarter when they needed them the most (I.E. spent a lot lotta money to make it happen, Amazon bought planes for f'n sake), corporate at Walgreens just said "yeah, nah, we're a pharmacy. We don't need Iron Man, we need vaccines." and just skipped out on a big toy push for Christmas last year. Unfortunately, that meant that the few exclusives they did have last year never really hit anywhere in plentiful numbers. I know Pulse had Transformers Red Alert and that's how I got him, but for whatever reason they didn't carry the ML exclusives like Nova. No one really knows why that was, it's just how it is. But it seems like this year is going to be a little better. Not perfect, though, but Walgreens is at least acting like they're going to stock their toys again.

Also the army builders do come back into stock, otherwise I wouldn't have any of them. Outside of a couple Hand Ninjas, I've missed the preorder window on all of them. All the other ones I've picked up were when they showed up under "Back In Stock". Still haven't seen the Skrulls pop back up yet, but they're the only other ones I'm after right now. Maybe more SHIELD agents, too, I bought one pack but now I kinda want more... The point is just keep checking back (but don't hound the customer service staff for answers as to when because they don't know! They're there for help fixing orders and credit card issues, they don't control distribution.)