Wal-Mart stated two years ago they were doing away with trading cards due to shrink/theft. Two years later cards stock shelves but I noticed less supply
@@MosbergSwerve Target is the best place to steal, self-checkout. The best lies have a bit of truth in them, same goes for theft. Put a cheap 3$ single pack under an 80$ or 40$ kit and get away with the prize. Sometimes they have cards in a plastic clear case, easy to cut through the tape with your nail, open the container, then make off with the loot.
big box store: “we gotta stop selling TCGs the theft rate is insane” also big box store: * puts TCG product directly across from a checkout counter and then doesnt staff that checkout counter *
@@darkmatter69420 one makes you stink and steals your money and gives you health problems. The other is cigarettes. (Obviously, this is a joke, I love playing Magic and I’m so glad I don’t smoke cigarettes anymore. They definitely belong with the cigarettes though. Both are wrapped in plastic and get you hooked.)
@@bigcock540 American walmarts sell cigarettes? Not here in Canada, and our cards are all over the stores from upfront to way at back by the toys and collectibles.
You would not believe, as a cashier, how many illiterate neanderthals I get complaining to me about how something is "the wrong price" when they were just too stupid and/or lazy to read the damn tag lmao
@@TipeONegatyve My comment was meant more as a joke because yes they carry booster packs at our Wal-Mart's too, they just fly off shelves so fast by the time you get to any of the Wal-Mart's here they are gone 😆
All trading cards in big box stores are set by a vendor who comes in from outside and does not work directly for the store. Customers then come in and move everything out of place constantly, and the employees don't know where anything goes because the items aren't part of the inventory system probably. All stock is maintained and controlled by the trading card vendor who maybe only comes in to fix things once a week.
This is true for many products for instance all Lays chips are untouchable by employees in every store I've ever worked in no facing no inventorying and no stocking no touching at all unless we're off work buying them it's insane
Ya this is true. It's just made more obvious in cards for several reasons. 1) cards, especially magic, have colored boosters and premade boxes. Meaning customers are more likely to shuffle them around while looking through the stacks. And 2) prices very insanely so while child you may have a 5-10 cent difference. Cards meanwhile have a more noticeable 10-20 doller difference. (I know I've had been suprised buying packs only to realize I've of the boxes was massively more expensive)
its not that they don't know where they go its just that it will take to much time to fix, because they would have to physically check the skus on each product and the tag, just for another customer to come along and screw the whole thing up. Plus as you said its the vendors job so really no point.
Worked for Anderson merchandisers for awhile and man, the baseball cards was still probably the most sought after. People would be waiting for me to finish stocking the shelf in a small line beside me eagerly waiting to grab all of the fresh products. Early bird Definitely gets the worm when it comes to Walmart trading cards. I use to stock it by like 9 am every Friday.
My days of paying actual money for cardboard are over. All that remains is to sell what I have for what price I can get. I understand that Hasbro needs a profit from this game. But at this point it is nakedly exploitative and I’m not wanting any further part.
@@lark7311 50 bucks is nothing like all the lgs around me they want 60 to 70 bucks. Also Walmart has ten times the employees. What's your lgs name so I can look it up. Trun1 in oak ridge and Knoxville Tennessee was 30 bucks over MSR with brothers war. I could buy booster set boxes for 110 from Walmart and 130 from a lgs. So what's the name of your lgs
Fun fact, walmart doesn't set the price for cards in the front of the store. It is all MJ Holdings and the reason Walmart doesn't seem to care if they get stolen is because they don't lose money when it happens. MJ Holdings loses the money
@@KamakaziUnicorn I was about to say the sticker are already made also. One of my Walmart by my place has had the same price and sticker it seems for the pass 3 years. Like when those Warhammer percons came out and people was wanting crazy prices my Walmart was priced at the 50 bucks price I thought it was funny
The real surprise for me is they aren't behind glass. Only half the Walmarts I go to even have cards, and they all keep them behind glass, always have to call someone to get them for me.
I have never. NEVER. bought a magic product from Walmart that has been in the correct spot with the correct price. And they NEVER will sell it to me for the price they stock it at.
Scan at point of sale matches stored pricing information to the barcode. The sale price is literally whatever the database says it is. That's the price "they stock it at." It has nothing to do with what shelf it's on.
Gosh i remember the days of going to Wal-Mart to buy star wars ccg booster packs and you had to get an associate to open the glass case they had all the ccg cards in.
The problem when it comes to cards at Walmart is the fact that they are stocked by an outside vender who chooses what to stock, Walmart doesnt choose what gets stocked/displayed when it comes to sports/tcg cards -- Wal-Mart Employee
That's insane, I have 5-6 Walmarts throughout town and they rarely have anything except commander decks, sometimes they'll have some set or draft packs and I haven't seen a mystery cube in 8-9 months lol
The tag on the shelf says "mtg phy awo cmd dk" cmd dk stands for commander deck. If u look u can see commander decks behind the collector box. The boxes are just in the wrong spot.
Lol people are so entitled, bills get higher, you're gonna pay more. Landlords dont exactly give you a deal, and neither do the banks. So someone has to make up the difference. And its going to you the consumer
Bro it's insane to think that they had potentially cards in packs worth hundreds, sometimes THOUSANDS of dollars just sitting on shelves...in the front of the store, away from all the action... They deserved that L.
It's just because a 3rd party vendor places those products. Usually Anderson vending Inc. And they don't know how to read tags. Commander actually goes there
The price in the video is the commander price, not the collector box price. The collector box price RETAILS at over 200, so yes, that price online is correct. And there are 12 packs inside
@@harryosborne8215 Nope, not what I'm referring to. The collector booster box with 12 packs typically retails for the 180-200ish range, but there are sellers who put these single boosters online for very exaggerated prices and sell them from tricking people that it's a 12 pack box. Tolarian Community College has a video talking about the confusing nature of the big chain store collector booster packaging.
My Walmart hasn't had cards in weeks. That said, they're always way more expensive than MSRP when they do have them. I know the label says this is for the commander deck. But I believe the Brother's War collector boosters were $35 (despite the tag on the shelf saying 24.99) there, so this wouldnt surprise me
At my walmart it looks like they are not restocking. Inventory is at a lower, I wonder if they will get rid of MTG on their shelves eventually. Also, here too 1 collector pack seel for like 60$CAD...double the price than what it sell for in an LGS.
hasbro is playing this game of "how high can i go?" when they achieve this "point of no return". they will go full digital only. mark my words. mtg will be a collectors gold mine when all cards increase 500% because no more print runs.
Even though it wasn't the actual price, MJ Holdings would be the ones responsible, as all Walmarts, Meijer, Targets and the like, rent the shelf space to them. MJ holdings is responsible for numerous counts of fraud and still, they remain a thing.
You don’t understand what’s going on here. Those boxes RETAIL for over $200. Not secondhand, MSRP. The “are they high” is because the price is 1/4 what it should be. But if you look close ish, it’s because that’s the price for the Commander box.
@@harryosborne8215 thats not an entire box thats one pack in large packaging to prevent theft, im aware it’s the wrong lable and price is for commander decks , but walmart definitely over prices their pack’s because the cost of all the extra packaging due to theft
Yet they still have the bundle: Compleat Edition at $80 to preorder. The Lukka you get in collector packs $5. Lukka in the oil slick print from compleat bundles going for $90. Walmart is definitely high.
Lukka oil slick foil is like $9.00 usd, how would the worse mythic in the set be $90.00 when price of the complete bundle is $90.00 and you get 12 set boosters two mythics and two of each basic in oil slick foil not to mention 40 full art basics(20 phyrexian, 20 normal)?
Thats why i just grab the bundle or the precon i want; and i grab a single pack that i hold on the back of it; go to self checkout and scan the booster pack instead and boom; your good. Fvck big box store prices. And no i dont feel bad about it either.
