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Originally Posted by StarwarsTF
Dont blame the retail in Canada for having incomplete waves you got to blame the MFR who doesn't offer up the assortment upon time in ordering for this country.
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I think there is blame to be shared to be frank.
Look at the recent Legacy: A New Hope Wave from about two months back. I saw them on the pegs in TRU once and only in one of the two Winnipeg Toys"R"us's at that.
TRU and I'd assume the other big retailers obviously had the oppurtunity to bring these in as they have been reported as sighted on their shelves....but then where are they? If I hadn't happened to walk into TRU that day I would have never seen them at retail in MB.
Since your privy to some inside information
StarwarsTF I have a question. If TRU has over ordered on certain waves of figures do they then order less of the future waves?
I've just always wondered about this because it seems sound. If you have X number of cases of Clone Wars figures that haven't yet sold is there a chance that individual TRU's then order less of the next several waves with the hope of moving the older figures along with BOGO sales and what not?
Going back to 1999 I know Walmart put this into effect with the Episode One figures. They ordered so many of the first assortment, figures that didn't preform as well as they thought, that when the next assortments became available Walmart didn't even bother bringing them in.