Mattel's WWE retail hell
Oct 19, 2016 17:13:02 GMT -5
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Post by 'Exotic' Adrian Street on Oct 19, 2016 17:13:02 GMT -5
First off I want to say
This is NOT a bash session on Bill or even the WWE Mattel product. I really enjoy it I have considerably downsized my collection but that's mainly due to jumping head first into Marvel Legends, Multiverse, DC, SW Black 6". Something had to give LOL
I don't live in a major city, but I live around a whole lot of good sized cities with LOTS of Targets, Wal Marts and 5 TRU's, that I'd say I frequent
And this is not new news by any means. But I'm trying to figure out how those 3 retailers listed above went downhill so fast (in the WWE sections)
I swear I haven't seen a full line of Elites at any of the Targets since E36. If I've seen anything above that it's been from Targets lackadaisical return policy. An E38 here or an E39 there. Maybe a stray E40. We should be on at least E44 (maybe 45) at mass retail by now, I think
That is a year(+?) worth of Elite series that Target is behind
Not even going to start on HOF series
Wal Mart - MOST (not all, but most) Wal Marts refuse to clearance lines that they continue to carry, from the looks of it. The log jam of E32, E33, E34, E35, E36, E38, E39 is unreal. Out of a TON of Wal Marts, I have seen E40 probably three times, E41 maybe twice, E42 once and E43 none. We are entering the holiday shopping season and we still have things clogging the shelves at WM that were there last holiday season and in some cases the one before that
And I'm not going to get started on Basics, because there are so many orange/blue carded figures left, it's unreal
TRU - they haven't been as bad as the other two but not good by any means. I have yet to even see E42 at any of mine. But they have E41 through the roof and of course E36 & E38. But the section has shrunk considerably it seems like
I see the pictures of Smyths and I can't believe what those shelves seem to look like all the time
And I have never been in retail, do not know how retail works, how WM.com and the others respective websites play into sales, but from the outside looking in. It would seem to me that this is how lines die (at mass retail). Shelves are constantly full of product nobody wants, new product stops coming in, refusal to (really) clearance. Seems like a recipe for disaster to me
All I can say is thank goodness for Walgreens, FYE, Amazon and places like RSC
And again. This is NOT bashing WWE Mattel. I respect Bills work and the product that they put out. Everything is not for me, but I try not to nitpick and bash everything that I don't like. This is just a fed up, old school (don't like ordering online that much) hunter.
This is NOT a bash session on Bill or even the WWE Mattel product. I really enjoy it I have considerably downsized my collection but that's mainly due to jumping head first into Marvel Legends, Multiverse, DC, SW Black 6". Something had to give LOL
I don't live in a major city, but I live around a whole lot of good sized cities with LOTS of Targets, Wal Marts and 5 TRU's, that I'd say I frequent
And this is not new news by any means. But I'm trying to figure out how those 3 retailers listed above went downhill so fast (in the WWE sections)
I swear I haven't seen a full line of Elites at any of the Targets since E36. If I've seen anything above that it's been from Targets lackadaisical return policy. An E38 here or an E39 there. Maybe a stray E40. We should be on at least E44 (maybe 45) at mass retail by now, I think
That is a year(+?) worth of Elite series that Target is behind
Not even going to start on HOF series
Wal Mart - MOST (not all, but most) Wal Marts refuse to clearance lines that they continue to carry, from the looks of it. The log jam of E32, E33, E34, E35, E36, E38, E39 is unreal. Out of a TON of Wal Marts, I have seen E40 probably three times, E41 maybe twice, E42 once and E43 none. We are entering the holiday shopping season and we still have things clogging the shelves at WM that were there last holiday season and in some cases the one before that
And I'm not going to get started on Basics, because there are so many orange/blue carded figures left, it's unreal
TRU - they haven't been as bad as the other two but not good by any means. I have yet to even see E42 at any of mine. But they have E41 through the roof and of course E36 & E38. But the section has shrunk considerably it seems like
I see the pictures of Smyths and I can't believe what those shelves seem to look like all the time
And I have never been in retail, do not know how retail works, how WM.com and the others respective websites play into sales, but from the outside looking in. It would seem to me that this is how lines die (at mass retail). Shelves are constantly full of product nobody wants, new product stops coming in, refusal to (really) clearance. Seems like a recipe for disaster to me
All I can say is thank goodness for Walgreens, FYE, Amazon and places like RSC
And again. This is NOT bashing WWE Mattel. I respect Bills work and the product that they put out. Everything is not for me, but I try not to nitpick and bash everything that I don't like. This is just a fed up, old school (don't like ordering online that much) hunter.