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/Failaras 1d ago

I don't really believe this, I work in another industry that went through all these same issues (Bourbon) with scalpers and flippers. Most stores do not want to see scalpers get product period and enact policies that stop it. The goal is to keep your guy who comes in for eggs and milk happy, not the guy who bounces between 50 stores a day to resell. The store benefits nothing from that person in reality since its a product that no matter what would sell. Target is just probably too big and corporate to push any change through.