>>11607975>implying i'm personally photographing everything i see at stores just because someone doesn't understand how retail worksStores like Ross are nation wide chain stores. They get all their stock sent to a centralized distrubtion center (or 30) and that's sent out to thousands of stores in 50 different states. So if one store gets stock in, that means there's going to be enough stock to supply at least 2,000 stores.
Ollies only has 600 stores and they're regional, so I've never seen anything they have because I don't live in the 3 or 5 states they operate in, yet they get the same shit I've seen at Ross.... so....
And people talk about seeing the same shit at Burlington Coat Factory, TJ Max, and other discount stores.
Personally, i visit 6-5 Rosses every week, because they're near where i work, where i eat, and other places i like to shop. So I've personally found almsot every wave, plus deluxe sets. Buuuut, I rarely buy anything.
>>11607978OF course it's profitable, but like i said, they just lowered their standards by a ton. If it's basically become an online exclusive, it's probably the 3rd worst selling GI Joe line since the TRU/indie shop exclusive and the first Anniversary line from the 90s. Sigma 6 and GI Joe Extreme had a much stronger retail presense, yet because it didn't meet sales expectations, they killed those lines.
>>11607981which waves are those in? We're only now seeing newer figures trickle in at Ross. IT takes a while for stores like Target/Walmart/amazon to dump their stock. Stuff like pic are only showing up now and it was released in 2024. Same with those deluxe army builder sets that showed up a couple of months ago.
>>11607996>This is just patently untrue. In what world do you live in? It's literally true if you can't find the toyline in every single Walmart and Target, because people have literally been reporting their Targets and Walmarts no longer carrying the toyline more and more every year.
