actually the wally managers in my area now best on they're best sellers what to order what's selling great and so forth, currently it seems mostly hasbro is selling out in the stores for the holidays

Dude, I have no idea what you just tried to say.

Wow, this thing's gonna way off-topic...

I tell you this, if Hasbro could offer solid cases of items, things would be very different for me.

 

I don't by any Alts from Hasbro because of their poor distribution. I am a small store and only get in about 50 to 60 of the BTs but if I could order Alts in cases, I would do the same with them. Because of their poor system and lack of ability to tell me releases and what not I get nothing. I would order the same number of alts from them as well and as I say, I am a small store. with enough small stores ordering likewise, they would make a ton more in sales IMO. Enough small guys can equal one of the big guys I would think.

 

They do the same with Star wars figures. It is easier and cheaper for me to buy all my figures from Walmart and then resell them then to buy direct from Hasbro themseves. Then I can buy the ones I want and be assured they will sell.

 

I think Hasbro is missing out on a lot of money doing things they way they are. Little more effort into what they are doing and it could be like it is in Japan with release dates and shipping times. Stores like BBTS, Legends, and many of the other on line or B&M collector type of shops would be buying a lot more items from Hasbro.

 

You listening Hasbro?

 

Spencer.

Unfortunately, even if you added up all of the small retail operations like A3&U, etc., they still wouldn't be a drop in the bucket compared to WalMart's (or any of the other large retailers) ordering power - and those companies don't want to incur the added labor cost of having to pay attention to individual toy assortments.