>store goes through major reset>bothers to set lots of space for new product>never gets the product or only gets one case>never restocks that item so the space remains empty until next reset>mfw I give up
>>11870123Stores get as much as they order. Inventory management is re-ordering stuff daily. And each store is treated as local, which is why local brands of food and soda are shoved in with the national brands. So each inventory manager orders what's in the interest of his local market. If the store doesn't get a second shipment, that's because it didn't order it. The goal is to have as little loss-inducing clearance price inventory as possible, and sell the exact amount the local market is willing to buy. If a store got burned on a brand too many times, it'll respond by ordering only one shipment or no shipment from the brand at all..
>decide to order full case of Legends>shocked when it doesn't all sell
>>11870123I hate when they fill up the spot with shit nearby. Mostly out of laziness.
>>11870123Is that dwayne johnson?
>>11870620Merchandising-101. They do that because empty shelves give idiot consumers the feeling that the store is going out of business or some shit.
Why is it always Americans with these first world problems? Nothing like that here in Asia, guess it's a scalper thing because of how expensive health care is and everyone in debt over medical bills from being so fat
>>11870130Sounds like the 90s-90s-10s perspective. Now algorithms order allocations for the stores using statistical and inventory data.
My local Walmart is too lazy to make room for new stock so it often just gets put straight into clearance. I got like the whole Turtles of Grayskull line half off this way, when it was new. Thank you lazy employees!
>>11870123Retail for collectibles and a good bit of other things is just on the way out. Retail doesn't want to deal with it and most people don't want to bother getting it from Retail when they can order online. Even if this leads to inflated prices. It's a tragedy of the commons.
>>11870801I'm sure your limited electricity or food borne illness are also things we miss out on because we don't live in the hell hole you call home.
>>11870874I just got a couple of the TMNT × GI Joe at Target that way. Brand new product straight to 70% clearance.
>>11870123Wagies have gotten increasingly lazier and they barely ever put new stock out anymore their wagie inaction is why i dont have much sympathy for retail workers anymore. In fact ill go as far to say that seeing their misery thru wagies complaining about their jobs online brings me momentary amounts of joy in my otherwise miserable existence
>>11871862You realize that it isn't actually the wagies' choice whether they put the toys out or not right? If their boss says put the toys out they will do it. If he has them making egg salad sandwiches instead then they will be doing that.
>>11870123Target employees are told to fill empty spaces. Some of those empty spaces are supposed to be filled by the vendors, like NECA.NECA's employees/contractors are equally lazy and don't give a fuck and shove their shit where ever and won't necessarily put them in their assigned places AND don't come by as often as Target expects or even they agreed to under the contract.These vendors are supposed to clean up and fix up the areas when they stock, this includes the Totally Anime idiots as well, not just the fucks from NECA, or Funko.>idiot drama queen from /toys/ has melty
>>11872025>and shove their shit where ever and won't necessarily put them in their assigned places AND don't come by as often as Target expects or even they agreed to under the contract.That isn't true at all and shows you have no understanding of how vendors actually work or what they do. You completely made up that last part, too.
>>11871647I'm not him, but from what I heard, you guys don't miss out on either of those things thanks to data centres getting priority on the electrical grid and lettuce giving you explosive diarrhoea.
>>11871862I've worked in grocery for 20 years and it's actually cause there's less retail workers. Corpos fell for the AI meme and it won't be long before Wal-Mart and Target are begging the government to bring in millions of Indians.>>11872025Yep. My store is next to a Target and I saw the Neca vendor working the reset. He looked pissed that he was even there. He only had 15 cases to work and was being helped by a Target employee so I'm not sure what his problem was. I assume vendors are being forced to take on too many stores at once cause my frozen pizza guys suck too.
>>11872051Cool full on lie you just told
Wasn't it like, a thing to rip the heads off LeBron James and King Kong figures a couple of years back?
>>11872264Yeah, that was like, Tik Tok's fault and because we raised a generation of retard kids.
>>11872264>>11872272Herds used to travel through the toy aisles.
>>11872048Someone lied to you sister.Taco Bell is not the restaurant that won the restaurant wars now, much less in the future. There are more people suffering from food borne illness in Mumbai or New Dehli than the entire continent of North America.Also, you really are brain rotted if you think there's a data center on every corner. Those are just closed down and boarded up Starbucks, sis.
>>11872133I wouldn't be so quick to judge that a lie. I've worked grocery, part-time, for 25 years. We are so understaffed now it's crazy. I did almost full-time as a summer job, once a week for a long time after I graduated, three days half-days at the start of the plandemic, up to five half-days now.These stores used to have alot more full-time adult employees. Kids would fill in the part-time roles, like weekends and evenings most of the year, days in the summer when the adults took vacation. Now, departments besides center store might have one FT adult and one or two PT adults. Working center store, I regularly have to cover for gaps in those departments.And we have few center store people too. And the kids in center store kind of suck. They're pretty slow, frequently can't find stuff, put stuff in shelves upside down or backwards, abandon carts all over, the works. Alot of stuff I used to do (I did slightly more specialized stuff because stocking shelves is more no-brainer work) isn't getting done because of having to clean up after them and cover other departments. It's really getting to be a bit much.I'm surprised we're not overrun with Hindubots but I'm sure it's only a matter of time.
>>11870123I don't get why they had toys for the live action moana because it preformed bad at the box office and People hated it.Why do toy companies make merch for a movie that isn't gonna do well?
>>11872264I remember when that happened,It was so dumb that stores put the LeBron toys in glass boxes to keep them safe.Even one point where people selling the stolen heads on eBay for stupid amount of money for a junk of plastic.People joked it was a meme,no it was a fucking crime they were stealing.I even told this to my mother once and she agreed that the people who stole them should've been arrested.
>>11872030>>11872133You idiots have spent the last dozen or so years bring lied to that you don't understand the truth when it slaps you up the face.It doesn't change reality.Go live your fantasy delusions on a containment board and stop typing nonsense about shit you know nothing about.
>>11873063>working grocery for 25 yearsholy shit, how haven't you killed yourself yet?
>/toy/ is populated by the guy making a career out of working at the grocery storeno wonder you guys bitch about price all the time.Holy fucking shit.
>>11873063Hello b4nny
>>11873211Don't you know there are a lot of people in the US who are stuck in dead end jobs?
>>11873258So? Those people shouldn't be buying collectibles.
>>11873273Why? Between me and my wife we make $90k a year.
>>11873283If you're unable to cover your bills or are going in to debt then no, you shouldn't be buying collectibles. Simple as. If that $90K covers your bills and allows you to buy stuff without being in debt, then good for you. The implication was the people working those dead end jobs can't afford toys and that's why you see people whining on /toy/ about a $3 price difference.
>>11873288No. I'm American. I'll buy whatever I want to buy and I'll complain about the price on this American website. Don't like it? Then you can suck my dick, Scrooge.
Everyone has three credit cards now
STAND READY FOR MY FISCAL IRRESPONSIBLY, WORM!
>>11873341Stop living above your means you stupid faggot. If you can't afford to buy toys, stop buying them.
>>11873288What are you, underage? It costs $85000 to have a child delivered at the hospital. I know this cause I have 2. Are planning on being a virgin your whole life to avoid debt?
>>11873422Sorry anon, there's nothing you can say that will convince me that someone who can't afford their bills should be buying toys and collectibles.
>>11873426Sounds like you don't even know what debt, bills, or even a job are. Stop mooching off your parents.
>>11873429>The only people who aren't in debt are people who have their parents pay for them.Holy fucking cope. I bet my mortgage payment is higher than yours too lmao. Going into massive debt you'll never pay off because you're too busy buying action figures is exactly why your two kids are going to be fiscally responsible for their dementia riddled parent. Just because Daddy has to buy the latest figgy.
>>11873436Then you're just an elitist psychopath. What you want people to live out your insane spartan lifestyle? I can't buy an $80 shf till I pay off my cars and mortgage? What am I supposed to tell my kids they can't have Christmas till they're 25? Tell me what is your profession so I can avoid you completely.
>>11873446Holy shit are you stupid? I said if you can afford to pay for your bills then yeah, you're fine. But if not, and you're struggling for money that an $80 Mafex is going to make or break you, you shouldn't be buying toys. You're just looking for reasons to argue at this point. Holy shit, you stupid motherfucker. There's good debt and bad debt, a mortgage is good debt, a car payment, if you're paying it on time, is good debt. Buying action figures with Klarna or on credit cards you CAN'T pay is bad debt.
>>11873063>plandemicAnd this is why you've worked 25 years in grocery part time.
>>11873208Mostly trying to find a way to take the most foreigners possible down with me. With a FT job and PT job and a seasonal side hustle I don't have alot of spare time. Also there's a drip feed of new toys keeping the edge off. Something will give eventually though.
>>11873474Excuse me? All I heard was "durka durka saaar." English please, you street shitting donkey fucker.
>>11873283>>11873341NTA but full doubt "your wife" wants you spending cash that can be used for house or even date night on plastic crack, sis.
>>11873426It's a double standard of society. Set everyone up to fail, then flaunt the things they can buy, then punish and demean them for buying things they want.
God I miss when America was a white country. The browner it gets, the browner it gets.
>>11873624Clean up on aisle 5, anon.
>>11873625>NTAYeah, sure. She spends $400 a month on her hair and nails while I spend less than half that on toys . And no, we have $10k in savings we are fine. The problem is you assume everyone who has a real job is destitute while you mooch of your parents. You're not better than the garbage man.
>>11873458>action figures with KlarnaWhy is it legal for stores to offer debt methods of buying nonessentials like toys? This only tempts low intelligence individuals and tricks them into making purchases they can't afford.
>>11873964I'm just saying sweetie pie, don't buy toys if you can't pay your bills. Not sure why this is so contentious to you.
>>11873964>She spends $400 a month on her hair and nails
