Empty Shelves Even at Christmas

My walmarts have alot of elites but there expecting decade of dominance, aew, and main line elites this week into the weekend.

Hopefully all yours all load up too. Christmas must be hard to shop for kids that are into these figures.

I think this is just the new normal at retail since TRU died.  They'd rather short order, sell through product immediately, and then have the pegs sit empty than over-buy and end up clearancing product.

It's not just an issue with wrestling figures.  It has literally been years since I've seen a new Star Wars Black figure in stores that wasn't one of the retro carded waves.  Even Marvel Legends seem to get fewer restocks than they did in the past and the section is often barren.  I've literally never seen one of the GI Joe Classified figures in store.  I think specialty retailers are going to be the best option, and finding a figure at retail will be a pleasant surprise.  

In the past my Wal-Mart had been one of the better ones at getting new figures but they haven’t gotten any new Elites past Series 77. They do get the new basic figures fairly regularly. Wrestling figures never stay on the shelves long in my area though.

Right now there’s just a handful of Elite 77 AJ’s and a neckless Adam Cole basic.

I’ve said it several times, and Milwaukee tools is an example. There is such a demand, Mattel should consider having manufacturers reps to go to stores with the ability to special order and ensure all Mattel product is being represented.

And here is another prediction, shortly after the holidays before they do a reset someone in here will make a doom and gloom thread saying that their local Walmart or Target removed the Wwe tags and therefore aren’t carrying them anymore and many on here will believe it and some of us will remind them we go through this every year.

Except all the times when the shelves are still empty because they just move empty shelves to new areas in the department. The only time shelves are full is Wrestlemania season and it’s been that way for years

Stock has been pretty dry lately around Nashville. Aside from the initial Legends 8 drop, I haven’t seen new stock on those. Elites pop up randomly at 2 cases tops then once they go it’s the same old warmers.

If anyone needs the Top Picks AJ Styles in grey and blue I could hook you up with about 400 of them.

There's product out there, but mainly shelfwarmers & scraps around me. Elite 78 & Basic 112 is the latest I've seen in stores. Plenty of Heenans & Elite 77. I only saw Legends 8 once in 1 store & they were gone within a day.