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Post by mrhoss on May 20, 2012 10:51:15 GMT -5
cableV, I would have loved to have seen that display...two months ago.
About a month back I ordered that Warrior from WWEShop which cost me about $40 with shipping and tax.
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Post by blu3blazer on May 20, 2012 12:29:03 GMT -5
That's seriously  ed up of Mattel.....with these endcaps Walmarts are getting recently, how can Mattel send out Basic 15 or 16 to some stores, yet allow others to receive such a large amount of Basic 13, which is 5 MONTHS OLD! Mattel is bitching that figures aren't selling and it's our fault and that's why they cancelled the Entrance Greats, Defining Moments and Legends....but then they go ahead and flood a store with a 5 month old series and WONDER why it's never going to sell! You act like Mattel sends these to each individual store. They don't. They send them to Walmart's distribution center and Walmart are the ones that send 15 cases of the same thing to one store instead of splitting up the 3 series and sending 5 of each. As someone who has admitted they worked in retail in the past, you would think you would know that. |
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Post by mrhoss on May 20, 2012 13:05:12 GMT -5
...You act like Mattel sends these to each individual store. They don't. They send them to Walmart's distribution center and Walmart are the ones that send 15 cases of the same thing to one store instead of splitting up the 3 series and sending 5 of each... . I could never understand why they do this. Back in Jakks CS days my Walmart was flooded with cases of the Moolah series. That permanently ended CS at my store. More recently Walmart had an exclusive DCUC wave. Most stores in my area received no cases but one store had over 20 cases. I saw the pallet with my own eyes. Those never sold out. Eventually they just disappeared. |
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Post by Otto The Orange on May 20, 2012 13:16:27 GMT -5
Why couldn't Royal Rumble Heritage be over produced/over stocked like this? Then I might stand a chance at finding a HBK at retail. But then again, Mattel would probably just leave HBK/Bret/Goldust out of that wave like they did Vickie at my store.
Over the past year I've given up on collecting. I've sold most of my stuff on eBay. I just don't get that thrill walking into a toy department or Toys R Us like I used to with Mattel. And it's no fun buying online. When your hobby makes you mad/frustrated for a while, it's time to quit (and I've been collecting hardcore since Hasbro days) Only time I will look at figures is if it's a HBK figure, or someone unique like Vickie now a days. And honestly, I think kids are starting to get sick of all these repeat figures. There's only so many Rey's, Cena's, and Ortons a kid can have/want.
Honestly, I don't think it's all Mattel's fault. WWE hasn't really been pushing story lines for talent outside of the top guys lately (Ryder, Kidd, Slater, DiBiase, Hawkins, Reks, Gabriel, are all over the place from Raw/Smackdown, to Superstars, to dark matches). TV exposure has a lot to do with figure production on Mattel's part. Mattel is afraid to take a chance on those other names (Trent 1 per case with Henry). Where Jakks took that risk (Colin Delaney among others).
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Post by chillax on May 20, 2012 15:16:02 GMT -5
Just more proof of the flaw in Mattel's distribution. They are shipping Basic 13, 15, 16, 17 and BoPPV Basics right now. Stop letting something new out of the factory until the stock of an older wave is gone. Might suck for us having to wait but it would beat having 2 JoMo, 2 or 3 Mysterios and Cenas out at a time. You forgot Basic 18, just found them at Target. So 13,15,16,17,18 all at once? And poor 14 is neglected. It's just stupid and with no rhyme or reason. I had always hoped Mattel would get smarter with distribution, but instead they have become stupider and insane. Thanks, guys! |
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Post by marino13 on May 20, 2012 15:32:31 GMT -5
Ouch man, that's gotta hurt.
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Post by mrhoss on May 20, 2012 15:55:29 GMT -5
Just more proof of the flaw in Mattel's distribution. They are shipping Basic 13, 15, 16, 17 and BoPPV Basics right now. Stop letting something new out of the factory until the stock of an older wave is gone. Might suck for us having to wait but it would beat having 2 JoMo, 2 or 3 Mysterios and Cenas out at a time. You forgot Basic 18, just found them at Target. So 13,15,16,17,18 all at once? And poor 14 is neglected. It's just stupid and with no rhyme or reason. I had always hoped Mattel would get smarter with distribution, but instead they have become stupider and insane. Thanks, guys! I don't know if they are still shipping Signature Series (I hope not) but I've got a TRU and Kmart buried in them. |
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Post by mrdoombringer on May 20, 2012 16:59:11 GMT -5
my walmart is like this except its b17
had 1 ryder out of a wall full of b17 like the one in ops post
5-6 rileys 3-4 henrys millions of reys hundreds of miz some zigglers 6-7
some bb13/b16 no eddie or warrior
no 2 packs only one bo11 orton elite no other elites besides that some flexforce
i really hope this walmart does the same for b18
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Post by threehgame on May 20, 2012 17:52:54 GMT -5
Hahaha I love being called a intellectually- disabled person by somebody who's job it is to be a stock jockey! Stock those shelves, monkey! Maybe I can come to your Walmart and take a big fat dump in the middle of the store and it can be your executive privilege to clean it up. Good luck in your bright future. Clearly you're going places.  I don't stock shelves so once again congrats on being a dumbass. How is sitting in your mothers basement going for you? Not as fun as being in your sister. Good luck retrieving carts and I hope you get above $10 an hour some point before you turn 35. |
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Post by ~*Young $ Money*~ on May 20, 2012 18:25:49 GMT -5
I think it's the amount of time per set release. I mean really a new set every in month? How can a store sell out 4 cases of a set and then get another one in? By the time one gets there 3 more are out. |
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Post by The Yes Man on May 20, 2012 18:57:37 GMT -5
Thats like my Wal-Mart, nothing past Basic 13, except they never stocked anymore of it, just more B12 and B10, now all we have is B10 Barrett and B12 Del Rio.
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Post by I Am Perfection on May 20, 2012 18:57:49 GMT -5
retail workers attacking retail workers. what has this world come to haha
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2012 19:00:21 GMT -5
This series hasn't even come to any of the stores around here. I think they skipped them somehow or they haven't even pulled them out of the back. It might be like the L6 I finally got at TRU the other day where the whole series was in the back and would've been if someone didn't actually look for me. I just want to pick up some Zeke's..
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on May 20, 2012 19:59:28 GMT -5
That's seriously ed up of Mattel.....with these endcaps Walmarts are getting recently, how can Mattel send out Basic 15 or 16 to some stores, yet allow others to receive such a large amount of Basic 13, which is 5 MONTHS OLD! Mattel is bitching that figures aren't selling and it's our fault and that's why they cancelled the Entrance Greats, Defining Moments and Legends....but then they go ahead and flood a store with a 5 month old series and WONDER why it's never going to sell! You act like Mattel sends these to each individual store. They don't. They send them to Walmart's distribution center and Walmart are the ones that send 15 cases of the same thing to one store instead of splitting up the 3 series and sending 5 of each. As someone who has admitted they worked in retail in the past, you would think you would know that. Guys, this isn't rocket science....everyone knows about the distribution centers......but anybody who's ever placed an order for something whether it be on Amazon or as part of their job knows that every order comes with *gasp* a CORRESPONDING ORDER NUMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So if I'm Dicky McPeniscake who works at Walmart and the order has been placed for that 10 cases of the Basic Assortment that I know I'm going to need to fill my end cap, that corresponding order is going to be the one that Mattel sends to the distribution center and the same corresponding order that the distribution center sends to me to fill the end cap. It's not like every Walmart sets up an endcap at the exact same time they just fill it up with whatever random crap is in the back....they get specific orders from the distribution center that are designed specifically to go in the end cap or display.....they don't throw on there whatever the hell they want. So this boils down to my original point of WHY certain Walmarts were sent 13 cases of Basic 15/16, and why some other unlucky bastards were burdened with 13 cases of Basic 13. No store should get stuck with 13+ cases of a 5 month old series....that just makes WWE figures look bad to the store and makes them think that the stuff is crap and doesn't sell and then they really WILL order less and give the shelf space to something else. So Mattel's distribution is shooting themselves in the foot. |
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Post by blu3blazer on May 20, 2012 20:33:41 GMT -5
You act like Mattel sends these to each individual store. They don't. They send them to Walmart's distribution center and Walmart are the ones that send 15 cases of the same thing to one store instead of splitting up the 3 series and sending 5 of each. As someone who has admitted they worked in retail in the past, you would think you would know that. Guys, this isn't rocket science....everyone knows about the distribution centers......but anybody who's ever placed an order for something whether it be on Amazon or as part of their job knows that every order comes with *gasp* a CORRESPONDING ORDER NUMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So if I'm Dicky McPeniscake who works at Walmart and the order has been placed for that 10 cases of the Basic Assortment that I know I'm going to need to fill my end cap, that corresponding order is going to be the one that Mattel sends to the distribution center and the same corresponding order that the distribution center sends to me to fill the end cap. It's not like every Walmart sets up an endcap at the exact same time they just fill it up with whatever random crap is in the back....they get specific orders from the distribution center that are designed specifically to go in the end cap or display.....they don't throw on there whatever the hell they want. So this boils down to my original point of WHY certain Walmarts were sent 13 cases of Basic 15/16, and why some other unlucky bastards were burdened with 13 cases of Basic 13. No store should get stuck with 13+ cases of a 5 month old series....that just makes WWE figures look bad to the store and makes them think that the stuff is crap and doesn't sell and then they really WILL order less and give the shelf space to something else. So Mattel's distribution is shooting themselves in the foot. For someone who supposedly "knows about the distribution centers", you have no idea AT ALL how they work. You're seriously the most arrogant poster on this board and you need to get over yourself. |
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Post by jfinnomore on May 20, 2012 21:14:50 GMT -5
You act like Mattel sends these to each individual store. They don't. They send them to Walmart's distribution center and Walmart are the ones that send 15 cases of the same thing to one store instead of splitting up the 3 series and sending 5 of each. As someone who has admitted they worked in retail in the past, you would think you would know that. Guys, this isn't rocket science....everyone knows about the distribution centers......but anybody who's ever placed an order for something whether it be on Amazon or as part of their job knows that every order comes with *gasp* a CORRESPONDING ORDER NUMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So if I'm Dicky McPeniscake who works at Walmart and the order has been placed for that 10 cases of the Basic Assortment that I know I'm going to need to fill my end cap, that corresponding order is going to be the one that Mattel sends to the distribution center and the same corresponding order that the distribution center sends to me to fill the end cap. It's not like every Walmart sets up an endcap at the exact same time they just fill it up with whatever random crap is in the back....they get specific orders from the distribution center that are designed specifically to go in the end cap or display.....they don't throw on there whatever the hell they want. So this boils down to my original point of WHY certain Walmarts were sent 13 cases of Basic 15/16, and why some other unlucky bastards were burdened with 13 cases of Basic 13. No store should get stuck with 13+ cases of a 5 month old series....that just makes WWE figures look bad to the store and makes them think that the stuff is crap and doesn't sell and then they really WILL order less and give the shelf space to something else. So Mattel's distribution is shooting themselves in the foot. thats not always true either. when i worked at Kmart we put whatever the hell we wanted on the end caps unless there was stuff that was going on special. distribution centers are ed specially for stores that large. it was always a crap shoot as to what was coming in even during the Jakks days. |
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Post by Otto The Orange on May 20, 2012 22:28:01 GMT -5
eek...what did i start by posting this thread?
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Post by threehgame on May 21, 2012 1:00:44 GMT -5
Not as fun as being in your sister. Good luck retrieving carts and I hope you get above $10 an hour some point before you turn 35. I've worked there for 7 months. I'm only 19 and I'm already making $9.50 a hr. I already have full time hours which is crazy cause they never ever give that out to new associates. So please tll me how I'm such a stock jockey or a cart pusher. When I'm close to neither. I actually have one of the easiest jobs there. Good luck staying on welfare bud. I bet your real excited that the first is almost here. Far from welfare but it sounds like you know about it. You are Wal-Marts prime employee, young, uneducated and willing to work for less than a living wage. You also fall so easily into these arguments it is just to easy to get you going. Back to topic: I have seen Wal-Mart do this before on other toy lines, push 3 or 4 series out in huge numbers to select stores. Usually it only happens to stores that normally have large sales volume. I have never heard of this many end caps of one line showing up however without some kind of sale or media tie-in. |
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Post by Cass on May 21, 2012 1:20:26 GMT -5
Guys, this isn't rocket science....everyone knows about the distribution centers......but anybody who's ever placed an order for something whether it be on Amazon or as part of their job knows that every order comes with *gasp* a CORRESPONDING ORDER NUMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So if I'm Dicky McPeniscake who works at Walmart and the order has been placed for that 10 cases of the Basic Assortment that I know I'm going to need to fill my end cap, that corresponding order is going to be the one that Mattel sends to the distribution center and the same corresponding order that the distribution center sends to me to fill the end cap. It's not like every Walmart sets up an endcap at the exact same time they just fill it up with whatever random crap is in the back....they get specific orders from the distribution center that are designed specifically to go in the end cap or display.....they don't throw on there whatever the hell they want. So this boils down to my original point of WHY certain Walmarts were sent 13 cases of Basic 15/16, and why some other unlucky bastards were burdened with 13 cases of Basic 13. No store should get stuck with 13+ cases of a 5 month old series....that just makes WWE figures look bad to the store and makes them think that the stuff is crap and doesn't sell and then they really WILL order less and give the shelf space to something else. So Mattel's distribution is shooting themselves in the foot. thats not always true either. when i worked at Kmart we put whatever the hell we wanted on the end caps unless there was stuff that was going on special. distribution centers are ed specially for stores that large. it was always a crap shoot as to what was coming in even during the Jakks days. Stores are given maps of what is suppose to go on end caps, but not for every shelf. Everything that need to go on there is there for a reason and paid for by the company its sold by to have that space. The rest is filled with flex, which is the random stuff in the back. Something like this with the figures is more than likely part of the map to go there and is sent automatically through the distribution center. Most stores now have automatic ordering and only order what they need manually. |
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