Thread 11507852

I live in a small state that has a small Walmart and I can't fucking stand it that when I go back to the toy section after a few weeks and I go to where the figures are and it's the exact fucking same bullshit,like for real I feel like that nobody is buying this shit because kids don't play with it anymore and it's sad because adults collect this stuff now.i go to look at the Transformers section manly for Studio Series and its zero of them as it's all just the mainline Transformers One and Earthspark figures but those I don't care for.Even Marvel Legends has nothing.I went to the figure section in Walmart at Eden one time and it's just like my Walmart with no Studio Series but I only found one 86th Bumblebee.

Like what the fuck is taking Walmart so long to get this shit,I've seen GameStop already having the new Transformers figures but Walmart isn't even trying.

Picture is not mine,its to show of what my Walmart currently looks like.

>>11507852 (OP)
You need to look at more Walmarts. Yours sucks because it's the small mart, like the small Targets you probably have

>>11507852 (OP)
>Walmart
>trying
Yeah, no, pick one. The huge Walmart I go to, in a major city, can't even keep track of inventory and reorder the cat litter I buy.

>>11507852 (OP)
92 percent of boomers had at least one child, compared to 19 percent of millennials

>>11507852 (OP)
They are stocking toys for kids rather than adults it looks like from the image.

>>11507852 (OP)
You must not live near too many blacktivities, if you did the isle would be a fucking perpetual mess with shit thrown everywhere, half of it stolen and the other half broken out of the packages.

>>11507852 (OP)
I find it hilarious that 99% of the transformer toys these days don't actually transform.

>>11508034
>>11507856
Athena

>>11507857
There are 7 Walmarts within 30 miles of me and all 7 look exactly like that. As a matter of fact, some looked even worse. I took a trip to Georgia 2 weeks ago and had to stop at 2 different Walmarts while I was there. They both looked like that. Maybe your well stocked up to date walmart is the anatomy, anon.

>>11508129
>anatomy
Stupid auto correct, I meant "anomaly"

What happened is Wal-mart won the retail wars and now doesn't need to compete.
Hope saving 50 cents to $1 over Toys R Us in the 2000's was worth it

>>11507852 (OP)
Looks like the toy section of my old Walmart. It was one of those smaller ones and it rarely got any good toys in, although I did find one or two things there over the years. I've since moved, and my new Walmart is one of the bigger ones and the toy section is pretty impressive tbqh. In the short time I've lived here, I've already found a bunch of things I was looking for there.

>>11508129
Sorry you have it so rough. I imagine you have to rely on online, but nothing beats the need to go out. Do you have other major retailers?

>>11508180
Toys R Us did not go out of business due to collectors. It went out of business due to Bain

>>11508129
More like no one buys this crap anymore so the shelves stay stocked into perpetuity.

>>11508259
It's factually Bain, it has been documented.

>>11508259
Athena

>>11508618
My Walmart wasn’t being stocked long before Trump took office.

>>11508618
You lost Dio

>>11508624
Why did jannies delete my post? What a bunch of queers.

Even so, like I said, if you live in bumfuck and the Midwest you're not getting anything good unless you're in a major city because nobody has money to spend here. No money = no reason to order new or varied stock.

Also you gotta remember toys are made for kids. But there's no more Saturday morning cartoons and zoomers don't watch TV, especially cable channels like Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network. So there's no advertising for toys, there's no cartoon tie in for toys, so there's no exposure or interest in toys.

I can't blame the kids, but I can blame the parents for giving babies tablets or phones just so they don't have to take care of the kids. So these kids grow up playing mobile garbage or watching those weird algorithm "cartoons" that are just designed to release dopamine.

>>11507852 (OP)
>a small state that has a small Walmart
You just found the answer to your problem, moron.

>>11508191
>Do you have other major retailers?
Within a 30 mile radius? 3 Targets and 9 different Gamestops. Ironically, the Gamestops tend to have the best toy selection. The Target's are all pretty depressing.

>>11509021
Gamestop's new role was being the new Toys R Us when that died. Prices and bad website and all. Also do you have a Macy's? maybe look at their TRU.

>>11509113
Thanks for the advice. Gamestop usually had a decent selection, but youre right, even with the pro membership, they price gouge. As for Macy's, we have s few, but the TrU sections are laughably small, and usually unorganized with an awful selection

>>11510778
We don't need more Jaydens and Rauls.

>>11507857
Nta but when I was growing up the town we lived in had like 65k people, not a big town but not a small one but I would say it’s on the small end and out Walmart always had a ton of great stuff from like 2001 where it was like 55k people until like 2005 when it was around 65k and they never didn’t have a great toy section. I think a lot of it today is there just isn’t nearly as much cool stuff being made. even smaller towns back then still had a lot even at a normal sized Walmart.

>>11507852 (OP)
I feel your pain. I'm glad Amazon and Ebay can fill some of the gap for me.

>>11508180
This, although I agree with the other anons that the Shittens/Bain fraud absolutely did not help TRU.

>>11508021
Shut up boomer

>>11508180
>What happened is Wal-mart won the retail wars and now doesn't need to compete.
>Hope saving 50 cents to $1 over Toys R Us in the 2000's was worth it

hudge funds killed Toysrus, idiot

>>11514160
That but also they built a store in NYC like in Times Square to compete against FAO Schawrz. They also spent millions every year getting Disney kid celebrities and pop musicians to promote some new toy at that toys r us location. It was fucking stupid and a huge waste of money every year just in terms of rent.

>>11509021
>>11509113
You need to keep patronizing those GameStops; they are only going to ship and stock collectibles at your store(s) if and when people buy them. If you know they are supposed to carry stock, go up and ask them (politely) if they have it or to check other stores nearby for an item. Don't trust their website (or WM or Targets) - they all suck ass and are often wrong, even about what's 'allegedly' in stock.

>>11514176
>That but also they built a store in NYC like in Times Square to compete against FAO Schawrz. They also spent millions every year getting Disney kid celebrities and pop musicians to promote some new toy at that toys r us location. It was fucking stupid and a huge waste of money every year just in terms of rent.

nothing the store did before the hedge fund compares to what the hedge fund did.

Giving a few 100 grand to a celibrity and then writing it off your taxes as advertising doesn't compare to someone taking out a massive loan to buy ALL of you, then putting the loan on the company you purchased with the money and THEN when the ship is going down, handing yourself some of that loan money and declaring bankruptcy.

You can NOT compare any of their previous small choices the a pile of debt equal to the value of the company

I live in one of the biggest metro areas in the country
Walmart is almost never stocked
As a former Walmart employee i can tell you exactly why.

When a shipment comes off the truck, it gets checked in. The stores internal inventory won't let any more be ordered until a certain amount is sold

If certain stock isn't selling (earthspark, for instance) the department head will make no effort to fill the shelves with more if the flow moving stock.
They sit in boxes
In the back

Until it's been long enough that they get clearanced out.

THEN they order the new stock, sometimes skipping entire waves.

This is also why you'll sometimes see wave 2 finally showing up when wave 3 hits. Because they were sitting in the back the whole time but the manager didn't want to put new product out that would sell, leaving the old stock to become dead stock

It's low-tier thinking and why Walmarts choice to have the department heads be in charge of the various reordering was a giant mistake

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>>11514176
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>>11515154
Americans love politics so much they put it in everything making it gay and lame

The one near my house (basically a babbeh version of a Super Center) completely ditched TMNT after the Mutant Mayhem line just pegged warmed for ages. Which is a shame because they used to have the Retro re-releases but got rid of them for MM

>>11515154
the issue is still thinking on the basest of plains: retail. ordering figures online is the only way now. retail should give up, it is outmoded.

I remember when transformers actually transformed kids got it bad these days

>>11515156
Pedo

>>11517890
heh, I sorta like my non transforming transformer, he hasn't broken and he was cheap

>>11507852 (OP)
Hasbro executive here, can anyone help me solve why our sales are down??

>>11507852 (OP)
Walmart is the only one putting out these awesome Hasbro displays with a whole set of new figures out on pegs.

>>11516290
>ordering figures online is the only way now.
YES!!!
YES!!!
EXACTLY
Let's give in to the scalpers and the on-line retailers adapting that mentality.

Can someone explain why the Poppy Playtime plushes are at least in mine in the fucking gaming section instead of the TOY section?

>>11532766
Based on a video game and the horror genre means they can't directly say it's meant for children. FNAF was done the same way. Skibidi gets primetime toy aisle because its moreso a show than a game and the toilet humor masks any violence or dark themes that the cartoon may have. To most it'll look like any toilet/garbage fad toy.

>>11507852 (OP)
Bump

>>11535959
The thread’s dead jim