Topic: Walmart

[Clonehead]

I was cruising the star wars isle in one of my kc walmarts and came across this tag in the clone wars section showing a roll back price of $3.90 for a cw arf trooper figure. I scrounged around and picked out their last three.

[Tamer]

Sweet Price Clint.

[Luke Sprywalker]

Same here Clint! Got one ARF and one Rex!

[Clonehead]

Alright Wally world, it's your turn.

What I have for a while now known to be a wasted trip proved it self again the other day as I made the fruitless trip down the action figure isle at my local walmart hoping to find some new star wars or gi-joe figures. The isle has looked like it was ready to be reset for a couple of weeks now with no pegs designated for joes and the same crap in the star wars section with no new clone wars figures and the same phantom menace wave of star wars figures that should of went the way of the clearance isle a year ago. It's a terrible circle you and Hasbro are making here. If you dont move and replace your old stock, hasbro wont make any more. if they dont make any more, you wont get any more. Either way, it's the collectors like me who suffer. If you are wondering why the action figure collecting public is turning to the internet to buy their figures and not your store or certainly not your site, walmart corporate heads, its because you dont carry anything  worth buying. Are you really not going to carry the new gi joe lines as well? You alone seem to be the reason that the good figures are so hard to find.

Shape up or find someone else to frequent your toy isles. I'm not inclined to waste my time there anymore.

[Tamer]

Kinda like I said in the Target report. I think they are just too far removed from the process.

and then we get to hear we make these decisions in the interest of kids. Yeah right.

[UnitedStatesDemocrat]

Same thing at my Walmart.  Just the same figures sitting on the same pegs untouched for the past few months. 

[Clonehead]

Same thing at my Walmart.  Just the same figures sitting on the same pegs untouched for the past few months.  

Do they really think that they are going to move that stuff, Dan? Have they even been monitoring it?

 Dan, go to your walmart right now and move all of their star wars action figures to the clearance isle, Just as a forceful suggestion. Perhaps an associate will wonder along and put a red sticker on each of em. Perhaps some stock man will make his bi-monthly rounds and noticing the empty pegs, will mark a check on his clipboard to go ahead and break out that second dusty case of phantom menace wave figures out from under the coffee pot back in the stock room.

[UnitedStatesDemocrat]

Do they really think that they are going to move that stuff, Dan? Have they even been monitoring it?

I think I've all but given up on retail stores in my area.  Ever since they shut down the TRU closest to my home, the only store I frequented and had luck at, I can't find a thing.  (Albeit I had to do it by bike on the mornings they got truck in or else somebody would snatch up the good figs, but still, I at least found something.)  There's nothing out there anymore, whether it's at Target, ToysRus, K-Mart, Wal-Mart, etc...  Nobody touches their pegs anymore as long as there's stock sitting on them.  It sucks, and it's not like I'd prefer to go onto eBay or any other site because the good items that Hasbro should be mass-producing instead of what they've been pumpign out now just get bid on through the roof.  I don't mean to complain, but it's not like I can pay top dollar just for one fig.  I'm a kid, like Hasbro claims to be targeting, and even I'm not content with how they're managing their fig production/distribution.  Like Shawn said, it's depressing.  

[Tamer]

Clint sent me this picture of a wal-mart near where he is staying this weekend via phone and it is quite alarming:

Is anyone else seeing their wal-mart SW Sections reset to nothing?

For me this would mean I would be in dire straits as the only SW Retails stores I have are Wally Worlds. I have to make a two hour run to get to stores like Toysrus or Target. I am already bummed because WM is not carrying the six inch line, but now they might go to no SW altogether?  

[krztfr]

My store reset they moved the starwars to a different part of the aisle even tho the star wars banner was still on the old spot.
And they had everythinh but six inchers

[Tamer]

I hope thats all this is, but Clint is pretty good at sniffing out the SW stuff!

[Spookymufu]

My store reset they moved the starwars to a different part of the aisle even tho the star wars banner was still on the old spot.
And they had everythinh but six inchers

WM isnt carrying the 6" line so you wont find them there.

[Clonehead]

Thanks for posting that shot, Shawn. I found a few sw figures in the clearance isle but no dedicated Star Wars section or any pegs marked as such. No joes either but I don't remember this store ever carrying them.

[DocOutlands]

Bec's store just reset their toy modular and SW is gone.  All the Sandstorm Scene wave & TCW figs are up in the the clearance area, red-tagged as d/c'd but not marked down.  Lotta Lego sets are steeply marked down - SW and older City sets.  I grabbed the last John Deere Mega-bloks set tagged at almost 50% off.

TMNT is big, wrestling is big, SW & GI Joe are gone (well, they never HAD Joes here), Marvel/Iron Man are trimmed WAY back.  Even Superman is trimmed.  Batman, untouched. (those wretched POS figs...)

Sad.  Just sad.

[Tamer]

I am really hoping this is just a periodic event never to repeat itself as I really have no close stores except Wal-Mart.