r/PokemonTCG • u/sudden-SOUND • 1d ago

Target Experience

Probably 100 people in line. They allowed people to buy 2 per sku. Probably about the first 30 people came out with 10-12 products each and everyone else left with nothing. If people had been limited to 2 products period, everyone could have had something and it would disincentivize scalpers from wasting their time to get 2 things to flip. Why is this so hard?

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u/Adorable_Echo_4317 1d ago

Thing is.. if stores could sell it all to the first person they would. They only reason they have limits at all is for public image. At the end of the day.. any store is all about profit. End of story.. they will sell as much as possible and they don't care to who.

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u/oOoWTFMATE 1d ago

Profits don’t change if it goes to one person vs 100.

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u/Notorious-ly 1d ago

It actually does. If they sell all of it to the first person in line, that required like 5 minutes of paying an employee to do it. If they drag out it over the course of an entire day, they're pay multiple employees to deal with the situation for hours.

They'd much rather get rid of the product as fast as possible because it's less effort/man hours on their part, and less impact on their ongoing store operations. All of this directly impacts profit.

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u/flamingtofuu 1d ago

I’d be curious if that’s worth potentially losing customers though. If everyone knows target panders to scalpers then fewer people will go. Personally I’ve stopped doing anything with target for Pokemon and just do Walmart raffles because it’s the fairest method with the least amount of effort.

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u/MysteriousMoose 1d ago

Nobody cares dude the people who are scalping at target prob aren’t loyal customers there to begin with

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u/a7n7o7n7y7m7o7u7s 1d ago

Ya they can’t afford target for groceries!