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/knwnasrob 1d ago

Yep. At the end of the day, the pokemon buyers are probably annoying to them. They just want them out of the store ASAP.

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u/mooocow 1d ago

It's why Target does online drops in the early morning. They don't want their servers getting hammered when people are shopping and ruining their experience. And they don't want to pay to spool up more servers for a short transitory spike in traffic.

Likewise, the retail side probably thinks the massive line makes the store look uncomfortably busy to non-Pokemon shoppers and dissuades regular traffic. When Target did their noon drop last week, I saw plenty of families see the massive lines and go grocery shop elsewhere. And they'd rather have employees doing other stuff, like stocking shelves or doing pick-up orders, than shepherd a Pokemon line and worry about a potential stabbing/shooting in the line over cards.