So i am in Target today and decide to buy one of those 5 dollars hot wheel ships (a Y-Wing) and get to the counter "sorry i cant sell you this." Whaaaaa.... its been out for 5 months and just now you cant sell it to me? So it looks like the Force Friday has put the kibosh on ANYTHING Star Wars related in Target. Like you cant buy it at all. So i went ask the manager what the deal was.
"Well we cant sell you stuff because they will sue us."
"What about all the Star Wars stuff out in shelves?"
"Sorry cant sell you any thing."
So fuck it, went to Wal Mart bought the Y-Wing and Slave-1 2 bucks cheaper tha Target. What a half assed plan Target had banning all the Star Wars toys.

 

They probably weren't expecting anybody to attempt to buy anything.
The stuff that's out there now isn't exactly flyin' off the shelves...

 

So if I wanted to purchase a Black Series figure, they'd tell me no?

 

That is weird and makes no sense. They should take it off the shelves if they can't sell it to people.

 

Pretty much

 

Yep. They don't seem to understand how asinine it is to have product on the sales floor, that they aren't willing to sell.

 

What's hilarious is that they are refusing to sell product that's been on the shelves for months already. Even if it doesn't pertain specifically to the new movie.

 

so shoplift it  

 

Seems to me like the Target you hit has gotten in trouble before over breaking street dates and is going overboard in making sure it doesn't happen again.

 

Target is doing this to be safe because of Force Friday, NOTHING star wars minus older LEGO sets and Disney Infinity and any star wars with a clearance tag can be sold. Target is doing this for the store and the employees financial safety. Plus how desperate do you have to be to complain to the manager (and apparently not understanding them) because you cant wait until friday and run to Walmart just just to get a hot wheel that will ALWAYS be there.

 

it's not like those things are part of the big force awakens event.. like you've said, they've been on the shelves at walmart for months and aren't even in the new packaging.

makes absolutely no sense.

 

If Target is that worried about it, they need to remove the product from the sales floor if they have no intentions on selling it to customers. It's just idiotic all around.

 

Oh i dont know maybe because they have the same stuff for MONTHS and decide naw we can sell it. Its not hard to have the new stuff in the system while not cock blocking people from buy the same Ezra from 6 mouths ago. And no, i did not bitch to anyone i asked politely for what was going on said thank you. THEN i when to wal mart

Its the principle of it. And my OCD too.  

 

That's what I told a manager last week when I was refused an item and the manager gave me a $3 "apology voucher".

I get the concept of what they're doing, but the execution is so sloppy that I can't take it seriously. Don't want to sell it? Fine, then take it off the shelf and put it all in the back.

The real kicker is you can go onto Target's website and buy the same Star Wars stuff they wont sell you at the store.  

 

Now just think about the kids that pick it out,carry it around the store all kinds of happy and get to the counter and told "No,you can't have this...sucks to be you"

I've only had it happen to me once.During the 07 TF movie.Found Leader Prime and they couldn't sell it to me.I never got Leader Prime because of that.It wasn't i couldn't find him,i was told i couldn't buy it,so i never bothered to give them money for it.

I don't get the point of putting it out just to refuse its sell.

 

Isn't that kind of like false advertising I mean toy is on a peg with it's name and price on it yet it's not for sell?

 

It sounds like they were given orders not to sell Force Unleashed stuff, and misunderstood it as not selling Star Wars stuff. Not really that surprised. Things like that happen all the time.

 

I've encountered this sort of "pre-event" sale refusal at Walmarts & TRUs for several years, but this is actually the first time it's happened to me at a Target store, and it was also with a Mattel diecast vehicle (the Falcon, in this case.) Usually, Target never seemed to have any problem with selling anything that was out on the shelves, street-date or not. They just usually wouldn't bring toys out for you before street-date if it wasn't already in the aisles.

If their inventory system for Marvel toys is anything to go by, I'm guessing most of the TFA toys are just being given the same DCPI numbers as the older stock & it's all considered the same merchandise.

 

Yup, recycling of DCPI for the new stuff so system can't tell if its old or new. Better safe then sorry. I agree they should just take the current stuff in back if it can't be sold right now.

See no need to get pissed since it will be there in 5 days.

Of course just like with movie Transformers, people get all huffy that they can't get their toys now. In a month from now, the same people will be bitching that the exact same stuff is just clogging the pegs keeping the next wave from being stocked.

 

They could at least put up a sign if they're not going to remove the product from the shelves that you can't purchase at this time. Check back Friday for the big Force Awakens event...