>>10342119>How has inflation hit your toy buying? What have you cut back on?I feel like inflation for toys isn't real. I feel like the toy makers and walmart/target have agreed to artificially inflate prices for the sake of milking whales. They know whales will buy toys day one, regardless of price. Then they can later knock 15% and a few normal people will buy the toys for the old price. Then 35%, then 50%. If that doesn't work, they box it all up and sell it to Ollies or similar.
If walmart and target were actually losing money, they would stop buying so many toys and then later clearancing them out and then sending them to Ollies, TJMaxx, Ross, etc.
There is a whole second chance clearance business model for stores that sell the shit Walmart and Target can't or won't sell. W and T must be making enough to bother with this. And the 2nd chance stores must be making enough at 50% off to bother buying truck loads of this shit from the big box stores.
If this wasn't the case, the toy market would have colapsed like the video game industry did back in the late 70s, early 80s.
This has been really bad in the past 5 years and probably started 10, 15 years ago. If the prices were real, walmart would be bleeding money and had gotten rid of toys by now
