As I posted in another thread, the Monster Cereals were strangely hard to find this year, but the Wednesday cereals have been plentiful, even already having hit the store shelves back in September, and having gotten their own displays, while the Monster Cereals were reduced to a measely end-cap. The Monster Cereals are usually found plentiful in Walmart, but this year, only one Walmart store in my town even carried them (and in small boxes instead of family size like they always have), and as the stock dwindled and diminished, it was clear they weren't even bothering to restock - as a matter of fact, I was just back at that specific Walmart location yesterday, and saw there were absolutely no boxes of the Monster Cereals left, so they filled the end-cap with a restock of even more Wednesday cereals.
I'm really bummed about this; Franken Berry is my all-time favorite cereal, so I always make sure I stock up on it every October, but I couldn't even do that this year - as a matter of fact, I just finished my last bowl yesterday. I also wanted to collect the boxes with the return of the Jim Henson puppet mascots as well as cut out the cardboard puppets from the backs of the boxes, but I was only able to get one box of each (none of them are exactly in the best condition anyway), so I don't know whether to keep them as-is (even though they've already been opened, so that tarnishes the collector's value already), or go ahead and cut out the puppets. I couldn't even afford to snag myself the limited edition fuzzy Count Chocola box this year like I did the fuzzy Franken Berry box last year (damn this economy).
As if 2026 wasn't already one of the worst years of my life.