>>11112855The particular store I checked yesterday was because I went to the 4DX theater downtown to catch Deadpool (wanted to wait for the crowds to thin out); it's near the USC campus and also close to the more latino neighborhoods here in SOCAL, and it's also where I've usually had luck seeing LEGOs, DCMVs and others. For a store their size, they have far more aisles of toys (in fact, they had an entire wall for Transformers, which is new for this location, and expanded their LEGOs into a whole other half an aisle).
I took statistics as part of my marketing undergraduate so I don't doubt you're right, but Target also doesn't even specifically catalgue SKUs down to the granular level; when I was looking for an Indian Jones toy for my friend, I had to literally go or call stores, because the SKU just brought up 10 XXX numbers of the toys, without telling you one was this character or this other character.
When I was trying to get the Bermejo Page Puncher, the SKU info, even in the internal Target computer just said XXX McFarlane Page Punchers in stock (and even if it showed you the Bermejo picture, it might have been XX Atoms, or XX Flashpoint Aquaman's or XX Captain Colds/Heatwaves).
So all it would tell their computers is how badly that entire line peg warmed, not that the Superman Bermejo sold out, or that the Mr. Freeze sold out, while the Cold, Heatwave, King Arthur and Atom sat on shelves even at clearance markdowns.
