>>9626265>This is actually pretty funny especially if you can find a spot in the store no one ever checks. Ultimately this doesn’t harm nor bother anyone who works at the store, assuming your hiding spot isn’t found.I worked at Target in 2008-2009, and if things are the same there, hiding shit only hurts collectors, not the store really. People seem to believe that shelves just seem to get restocked if someone passes by and eyeballs an empty shelf, but that isn't how it works.
There's a system that, IIRC, keeps track of how many items on the floor are sold, against how much capacity is on the floor. So for instance, lets say there's two pegs of some figure, and the system says that there's room for 8 figures on those pegs. The threshold may be 4 figures, so when 4 or more of those 8 figures sell, the computer updates, and prompts backroom employees to pull more inventory out of the backroom to be stocked on the shelves.
But if you see there are four or five figures on the pegs, and you hid them all, the system still thinks those figures are out on the shelf, so it never prompts the system to update and ask for more stock to be put out. This might not even be caught for months until a seasonal reset, when everything is just cleared out.
Its also why you can look at the pegs, and ask an employee for more and they end up telling you their handheld is telling you there's stock out there and "Whats on the floor is what we have."
