Theyre going clearance. Same with the netflix figures. Some stores just mark them as regular prices and not clearance stickers.

 

Anyone have the Walmart SKUs for SS86 deluxes and Voyagers?
Actually had Brickseek work for me the other night with Kingdom wave 3, figured I'd give those two a shot if I can find the assortment SKU.

 

I haven't figured out how to use the EA #'s listed on this forum, but you can use the SKU finder on Brickseek and search by assortment.

TRA GEN WFC K DELUXE AST - Walmart Inventory Checker - BrickSeek

I'm not sure how accurate this is at the moment, since it's showing me that all the local Walmart stores have 6+ on hand and I've been to the closest one twice today with nothing to show for it...

 

Mines showing 0, which is accurate. You might be in luck though since they’re likely sitting in the back waiting to be put out.

 

Again, YMMV, but the new Cyberverse Deluxe Cheetor (and his wavemates) are ringing up at $13.47, as well.

MIKE
engledogg

 

Thanks, but looks like that’s Kingdom wave 3.
I found Gnaw’s listing, just not sure how accurate it is vs an assortment sku.

 

Yeah, you can use the SKU finder to look them up, but the Studio Series ones weren't working for me. I dunno.

Studio Series Deluxe Asst: 139095051
TRA GEN STUDIO SERIES DELUXE AST - Walmart Inventory Checker - BrickSeek

Studio Series Voyager Asst: 845659764
TRA GEN STUDIO SERIES VOYAGER AST - Walmart Inventory Checker - BrickSeek

 

I have gotten to a point where I don’t trust Brickseek anymore. I know there is a delay between when the stuff comes in at the store and when brickseek gets updated. Sometimes they are on it sometimes not so much. I found the recent 86 movie Voyagers at a few Walmart stores yesterday but I checked the link you provided and says no result for my area. So yeah it’s hit or miss.

 

Just found the newer wave of the Kingdom Figures this morning. Scroponk, Tracks and the fossilizer.

 

That's how Brickseek works though. It's never been in real-time and the site is plastered with disclaimers about that.

99.99% of inventory systems do not operate in real time (especially not beyond the warehouse level). Most retailers don't even bother checking what they receive against the manifest (corporate refuses to allow the payroll for it) and if it doesn't actually arrive (which is far more common than people think), the count is wrong and stays wrong until an audit is done (and that's assuming anyone can audit the count). No one is allowed to manually change OH counts during business hours because even at the store level, inventory changes can take up to 24 hours to change (from register/online sales) to what is supposed to be the correct count.

 

This is funny.

Decades ago (late 90s; I'm old) when I worked at Kay Bee the driver was required to have the manifest and we would have to verify against it manually. Piece count anyway.

 

I remember when they cut the payroll for it while reducing the unload time and managers were all like "yea, no" and offloaded it all outside, then sealed the trailer, then checked against the manifest as usual.

 

At my walmart store, the average truck size is ~2000 pieces. 5-6 days a week. I am a smaller store. Bigger stores will get 1-2 trucks that size every day. Counting pieces isnt feasible. Verifying against a manifest is even less so. The most we hope for is verifying the high ticket items arrived.

 

Pieces or cases?

You only count the cases and make sure that the label the warehouse slapped on that case is for the correct SKU/item in that case. That's really easy to do if the person in charge of and/or working that area is counting then looking at the total on the manifest. You don't need to go beyond that unless there is a discrepancy (e.g. the case count is higher or lower than it should be).

That having been said, it's extremely dependent on how the merchandise arrives and how it goes to the floor:

If it's all coming on mixed pallets and those mixed pallets are going directly to the floor, then no, there's no way to even remotely trying to verify anything outside of an actual inventory and the store getting blamed for allowing shrink.

If it's all coming in on mixed pallets and/or a loose load of cases (no pallets) and not going directly to the floor, it's almost certainly being organized by department (and potentially by aisle and/or shelf) and it's something that the stocker can do (depending on tracked metrics, if they have to do the backstock, if it's being done during peak hours, etc.).

If it's all coming in department pallets it's something that the stocker can do (depending on tracked metrics, if they have to do the backstock, if it's being done during peak hours, etc.).

It's not that it isn't feasible. It's that people don't want to do it and, corporate doesn't want to pay for it with the added benefit of the store taking the fall for shrink instead of the warehouse, the vendor, and so on.

Granted Walmart is a bit of an outlier because they are open 24/7 (barring a holiday or emergency) but, almost everyone in retail has ditched off-hour crews and forced their logistics crews to take on supervisor duties without the pay/benefits/title while also being sales staff for a quick and easy bump to their P&L which starts a never ending cycle of payroll cuts and turnover. Everyone doing so is going to go out of business because, everyone that has ever started this cycle has gone out of business as it's not sustainable and you simply can not maintain a business that way. It's just going to take longer than it has in the past due to the volume involved and online sales (these are what will ultimately keep something afloat if and only if they convert their B&M stores to only do online fulfillment to undercut Amazon's local distribution speed).

 

Cases. And most of it is chucked loose on the trailer. A person picks up a box and pushes it up a line to go to pallets. Now the stores that have the robo sorters,(box is loaded onto the line the machine sends it the direction it needs to go to be put on a pallet) may be able to keep a talley. We dont as our backroom is too small.

 

My Walmart has the WFC Netflix Deluxes on clearance for $13.41, and the Voyager sets for $29.80. Plenty of Deluxes left, but just a couple of the Optimus/Rattrap packs still on the shelf.

 

Wow, I would have thought that Walmart would just bring it all in on pallets and, I never would have imagined that Walmart used a trailer/line similar to Target with pallets instead of uboats.

That sounds really neat even though it's terrible for anyone that it eliminated (unless they were folded into a another part of the logistics crew to make it more efficient). The biggest benefit to that is that for store employees is that there is no longer an unload crew to blame for the system being broken (though I'm sure anyone loading the pallets will still be blamed for not being able to keep up unless that is automated as well).

I always forget that there are small backrooms as I haven't been in one since KB Toys (due solely to luck) and, KB Toys were so small that employees were lucky to get the entire truck in the backroom. There is also a massive difference in 1800+ case trucks with small backrooms and 1800+ case trucks with the proper amount of room in receiving as well as the backroom which is further complicated on if the proper amount of fixtures are in that location to support the volume.

I also always forget that Walmart pushes everything to the floor (or at least they used to) since they use an overstock system instead of a backstock (I really wish it was called something else given what backstock actually means) system.

 

And yet they still haven’t put these online while Pulse had these available for over 5 months.

Honestly I hope we just get another Cheetor redeco that has more blue and his gun so I don’t have to wast my time finding the $22 half-assed Netflix version. We have like over 1000s versions of the same decos of Siege Megatron character so it’s not like they can’t do it again.

 

Oh ya its terrible.

is a quick video i found of the fastsorter. It keeps you in place so you arent criss crossing other people to tske boxes to pallets. What would have been a crew of 8 to unload becomes 5-6. The remaining bodies can start taking carts and pallets to floor to stock while the core group continues trailer unload. So AFAIK no real jobs lost in that area which even if there is, is a harder job to hire for

 

That looks incredibly slow. TBF though, people on each side of the main line looking at every single box being pushed down it (manually) waiting for their aisle/area isn't efficient either (this system also has no cross traffic but there are no rollers perpendicular to the main line). It's probably one of those things that looks worse than it is but is still terrible.

Pretty much anything is an improvement over a loose stack truck and tossing/stacking cases from it into a stockroom (and it doesn't matter where because what even is floor space?).

I'm shocked there is still a crew of 5 to 6 for unload with that system though (based on the speed in the video and using pallets).

The noise level alone though would cause me to resign lol. Here I was thinking that hearing the wheels (at the end of the line) and the main line rollers (parallel to the truck) in person in the past was unbearably loud . . .