Local Wal-Mart Closing Trading Cards Out

Wolf8MeVillie · 11-04-2019, 07:48 PM

So I've been hitting local Targets for Chrome Update, one had em, the other didn't so figured I'd just check into Wal-Mart as I stay clear of Wal-Mart most of the time. I walk into the card section and a Wal-Mart employee is pulling every card off the shelf, baseball, football, basketball, Pokemon, etc. He said that they were no longer carrying trading cards and were returning them to the vendor. I live in Melbourne, FL so wondered if anyone else as seen this at other Wal Marts. Seems odd, he said there were to many problems, probably retail theft, pack searchers, and people returning resealed items with crap in em.

djolley86 · 11-04-2019, 07:49 PM

Interesting. I have noticed that the new Walmarts around me that have the shorter checkout stations tend to carry little to no cards, for what it is worth.

spuds1961 · 11-04-2019, 07:53 PM

The 4 Walmart’s closest to my house stopped selling cards last year, and 2 of them had really nice card sections.

Soxfanguy · 11-04-2019, 07:57 PM

Why? That's the whole reason I go to Walmart. They are going to lose a lot of traffic from this

Stech36 · 11-04-2019, 08:01 PM

Mine pulled them this year. No longer sell them. And they sold great. They were always pretty bare bones because people cleaned them out

marterburn · 11-04-2019, 08:01 PM

When I lived in a suburb immediately adjacent to the North side of Milwaukee, the WM there never carried cards. Definitely a theft thing.

Same area where I witnessed a guy run out of Home Depot with a leafblower. The HD door guy just turned to me and said "He runs good for a fat boy!"

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dodgerfanjohn · 11-04-2019, 08:15 PM

Very large Walmart near me with a rough customer base was completely cleared out this past week. They were a very well stocked store

I suspect it’s more to do with returns as I’ve seen several boxes there with cellophane wrap that was not factory.

Considering there’s basically no jobs in LA paying less than $15 an hour and the average salary is over $60k s year, you have to be a real loser to spend time buying and resealing card boxes to return.

PoPCulture · 11-04-2019, 08:20 PM

What I’m about to say was accurate 6 years ago but things may have changed since I’ve been out....
If an individual store wants to have a vendor product removed then it needs to go through Market Mgr and Regional Office approval. It does happen and not only with Beckett. The majority of the time the decision is made due to poor vendor presence at that particular location and not the other reasons mentioned above.

Wolf8MeVillie · 11-04-2019, 08:22 PM

I mean one of the biggest retail stores to stop carrying cards will be huge. That leaves Target. The only hobby shop in my entire county closed down years ago, he retired, but pretty much said it was hard to keep up with online prices and all the "distributors." Wal Mart may opt to just sell them via the online store. Decrease risk of theft and may decrease people resealing the boxes and returning them. They weren't even marking them down, just returning them to the vendor...

twoten01 · 11-05-2019, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Soxfanguy

Why? That's the whole reason I go to Walmart. They are going to lose a lot of traffic from this

You cant be serious. All of the cards Walmart has sold since they first starting selling cards wouldnt equal 1 millionth of 1 percent of their sales.

StickCollects · 11-05-2019, 11:11 AM

The last 3 times I went to Walmart to get Holiday boxes, there were cards from open packs strewn about. The open packs were usually from the pokemon style card games. In the last week, the local Targets put those nice "you're being recorded" signs in the card aisle.

So...based only on my local big box store observations, I could see them pulling those high cost, low profit, easy five finger discount items out of stores, and make them online only.

LCM1223 · 11-05-2019, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Soxfanguy

Why? That's the whole reason I go to Walmart. They are going to lose a lot of traffic from this

yea no

WalterAZ31 · 11-05-2019, 11:31 AM

i did notice one walmart in mesa, AZ area no longer carries cards, on baseline between alma school and country club

delangley1977 · 11-05-2019, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Wolf8MeVillie

So I've been hitting local Targets for Chrome Update, one had em, the other didn't so figured I'd just check into Wal-Mart as I stay clear of Wal-Mart most of the time. I walk into the card section and a Wal-Mart employee is pulling every card off the shelf, baseball, football, basketball, Pokemon, etc. He said that they were no longer carrying trading cards and were returning them to the vendor. I live in Melbourne, FL so wondered if anyone else as seen this at other Wal Marts. Seems odd, he said there were to many problems, probably retail theft, pack searchers, and people returning resealed items with crap in em.

I’m in satellite, which Walmart was pulling them?

The_Reverend · 11-05-2019, 11:57 AM

I have been in 2 in east Texas that no longer has them. Smaller stores, but might be a trend and why Walmart is doing so much online offerings.

mrchipz · 11-05-2019, 11:59 AM

Yup happen to me as well a few months ago here is las vegas.
the 2 wal marts around my house have been carrying cards for nearly 20 years same spot and there was always a decent selection.
i would go once a week just to see if anything good restocked and buy some.
i went in about 3 months ago and the spot where the cards was now was all filled with batteries.
i searched the whole store found nothing, asked multiple employees they said they stopped carrying them.
i was just in there a few days ago thinking they got them back and nope i asked again and they said they no longer sell any cards at all.
happen at both of my wal marts around me in the past 3 months.
now my only option is target and there is only 1 close to me and guess what.... there is never nothing good in stock cause now everyone only has 1 place to go to with in our area so everyone is just hitting target now.
it sucks big time.

chester0711 · 11-05-2019, 12:02 PM

Wow, so this may be why my local walmart went from having a fully stocked, organized card section two weeks ago to what looked like a ransacked shelf of garbage with empty display boxes this week.

LVDan · 11-05-2019, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by mrchipz

Yup happen to me as well a few months ago here is las vegas.
the 2 wal marts around my house have been carrying cards for nearly 20 years same spot and there was always a decent selection.
i would go once a week just to see if anything good restocked and buy some.
i went in about 3 months ago and the spot where the cards was now was all filled with batteries.
i searched the whole store found nothing, asked multiple employees they said they stopped carrying them.
i was just in there a few days ago thinking they got them back and nope i asked again and they said they no longer sell any cards at all.
happen at both of my wal marts around me in the past 3 months.
now my only option is target and there is only 1 close to me and guess what.... there is never nothing good in stock cause now everyone only has 1 place to go to with in our area so everyone is just hitting target now.
it sucks big time.

I have good luck out at the Target on Nellis/Sahara if you're ever out that way. There's also a Walmart on Nellis that had cards as recently as last year.

dbacksfan4life · 11-05-2019, 12:05 PM

The 2 Walmart’s that are closest to me have stopped carrying all sports cards for about 2 years now.

CharlieHustle · 11-05-2019, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by mrchipz

Yup happen to me as well a few months ago here is las vegas.
the 2 wal marts around my house have been carrying cards for nearly 20 years same spot and there was always a decent selection.
i would go once a week just to see if anything good restocked and buy some.
i went in about 3 months ago and the spot where the cards was now was all filled with batteries.
i searched the whole store found nothing, asked multiple employees they said they stopped carrying them.
i was just in there a few days ago thinking they got them back and nope i asked again and they said they no longer sell any cards at all.
happen at both of my wal marts around me in the past 3 months.
now my only option is target and there is only 1 close to me and guess what.... there is never nothing good in stock cause now everyone only has 1 place to go to with in our area so everyone is just hitting target now.
it sucks big time.

Which area?
Im in NW Vegas and it's the same over here. Though the Target in my area isnt being overrun by anxious customers, it's just never stocked on time. Maybe the vendor shows up 3 weeks after release. I still havent seen Topps Update over here, let alone Chrome.

timelovesahero · 11-05-2019, 12:18 PM

spoke to someone at my local in Richmond today and they are phasing out cards altogether. All they had were some 2018 series 1 and donruss football (all full price)

mrchipz · 11-05-2019, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by LVDan

I have good luck out at the Target on Nellis/Sahara if you're ever out that way. There's also a Walmart on Nellis that had cards as recently as last year.

i never go that way im NW/Summerlin area but t i wouldnt be surprised if that one no longer has them either. if you ever check cause you said you havent been there in a while let me know, thx.

Soxfanguy · 11-05-2019, 12:21 PM

I blame the pack searchers

mrchipz · 11-05-2019, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by CharlieHustle

Which area?
Im in NW Vegas and it's the same over here. Though the Target in my area isnt being overrun by anxious customers, it's just never stocked on time. Maybe the vendor shows up 3 weeks after release. I still havent seen Topps Update over here, let alone Chrome.

yup im nw too. i was talking about the wal mart on rainbow and cheyenne.
the target on tenaya never has anything in stock thats new anytime i go. just insane amounts of archives and gypsy queen baseball lol.

LALeakers · 11-05-2019, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Soxfanguy

Why? That's the whole reason I go to Walmart. They are going to lose a lot of traffic from this

This cannot be a real statement.

11-04-2019, 07:48 PM	#1
Wolf8MeVillie Member Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 1,399	Local Wal-Mart Closing Trading Cards Out So I've been hitting local Targets for Chrome Update, one had em, the other didn't so figured I'd just check into Wal-Mart as I stay clear of Wal-Mart most of the time. I walk into the card section and a Wal-Mart employee is pulling every card off the shelf, baseball, football, basketball, Pokemon, etc. He said that they were no longer carrying trading cards and were returning them to the vendor. I live in Melbourne, FL so wondered if anyone else as seen this at other Wal Marts. Seems odd, he said there were to many problems, probably retail theft, pack searchers, and people returning resealed items with crap in em.

11-04-2019, 07:57 PM	#4
Soxfanguy Member Join Date: Aug 2018 Location: White Sox Posts: 15,579 Soxfanguy	Why? That's the whole reason I go to Walmart. They are going to lose a lot of traffic from this __________________ ok

11-05-2019, 12:05 PM	#19
dbacksfan4life Member Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Chase Field/ Any ST Ballpark Posts: 10,990	The 2 Walmart’s that are closest to me have stopped carrying all sports cards for about 2 years now. __________________ Adam Engel SUPERCOLLECTOR!

11-05-2019, 12:18 PM	#21
timelovesahero Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Virginia Posts: 722 simple.machines timelovesahero	spoke to someone at my local in Richmond today and they are phasing out cards altogether. All they had were some 2018 series 1 and donruss football (all full price) __________________ Surviving the Duhvizhun.

11-05-2019, 12:21 PM	#23
Soxfanguy Member Join Date: Aug 2018 Location: White Sox Posts: 15,579 Soxfanguy	I blame the pack searchers __________________ ok

11-04-2019, 07:49 PM	#2
djolley86 Member Join Date: Aug 2016 Location: NC Posts: 1,357 djolley86	Interesting. I have noticed that the new Walmarts around me that have the shorter checkout stations tend to carry little to no cards, for what it is worth.

11-04-2019, 07:53 PM	#3
spuds1961 Member Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Terry,Ms. Posts: 39,316	The 4 Walmart’s closest to my house stopped selling cards last year, and 2 of them had really nice card sections.

11-04-2019, 08:01 PM	#5
Stech36 Member Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Westminster, MD Posts: 9,540 Stech36	Mine pulled them this year. No longer sell them. And they sold great. They were always pretty bare bones because people cleaned them out

11-04-2019, 08:01 PM	#6
marterburn Member Join Date: May 2018 Location: Milwaukee area Posts: 4,719 burnmax12 burnmax12	When I lived in a suburb immediately adjacent to the North side of Milwaukee, the WM there never carried cards. Definitely a theft thing. Same area where I witnessed a guy run out of Home Depot with a leafblower. The HD door guy just turned to me and said "He runs good for a fat boy!" Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

11-04-2019, 08:15 PM	#7
dodgerfanjohn Member Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Torrance, CA Posts: 5,308 sternroolz	Very large Walmart near me with a rough customer base was completely cleared out this past week. They were a very well stocked store I suspect it’s more to do with returns as I’ve seen several boxes there with cellophane wrap that was not factory. Considering there’s basically no jobs in LA paying less than $15 an hour and the average salary is over $60k s year, you have to be a real loser to spend time buying and resealing card boxes to return.

11-04-2019, 08:20 PM	#8
PoPCulture Member Join Date: May 2014 Location: In the Goldilocks Zone Posts: 8,621	What I’m about to say was accurate 6 years ago but things may have changed since I’ve been out.... If an individual store wants to have a vendor product removed then it needs to go through Market Mgr and Regional Office approval. It does happen and not only with Beckett. The majority of the time the decision is made due to poor vendor presence at that particular location and not the other reasons mentioned above.

11-04-2019, 08:22 PM	#9
Wolf8MeVillie Member Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 1,399	I mean one of the biggest retail stores to stop carrying cards will be huge. That leaves Target. The only hobby shop in my entire county closed down years ago, he retired, but pretty much said it was hard to keep up with online prices and all the "distributors." Wal Mart may opt to just sell them via the online store. Decrease risk of theft and may decrease people resealing the boxes and returning them. They weren't even marking them down, just returning them to the vendor...

11-05-2019, 11:11 AM	#11
StickCollects Member Join Date: Sep 2019 Location: Lake Mills, WI Posts: 3 sticcr_47 Coming Soon	The last 3 times I went to Walmart to get Holiday boxes, there were cards from open packs strewn about. The open packs were usually from the pokemon style card games. In the last week, the local Targets put those nice "you're being recorded" signs in the card aisle. So...based only on my local big box store observations, I could see them pulling those high cost, low profit, easy five finger discount items out of stores, and make them online only.

11-05-2019, 11:31 AM	#13
WalterAZ31 Banned Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Glendale, AZ Posts: 8,268	i did notice one walmart in mesa, AZ area no longer carries cards, on baseline between alma school and country club

11-05-2019, 11:57 AM	#15
The_Reverend Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Texas Posts: 15,354 islubi	I have been in 2 in east Texas that no longer has them. Smaller stores, but might be a trend and why Walmart is doing so much online offerings.

11-05-2019, 11:59 AM	#16
mrchipz Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 3,804	Yup happen to me as well a few months ago here is las vegas. the 2 wal marts around my house have been carrying cards for nearly 20 years same spot and there was always a decent selection. i would go once a week just to see if anything good restocked and buy some. i went in about 3 months ago and the spot where the cards was now was all filled with batteries. i searched the whole store found nothing, asked multiple employees they said they stopped carrying them. i was just in there a few days ago thinking they got them back and nope i asked again and they said they no longer sell any cards at all. happen at both of my wal marts around me in the past 3 months. now my only option is target and there is only 1 close to me and guess what.... there is never nothing good in stock cause now everyone only has 1 place to go to with in our area so everyone is just hitting target now. it sucks big time.

11-05-2019, 12:02 PM	#17
chester0711 Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Twin Cities Posts: 418	Wow, so this may be why my local walmart went from having a fully stocked, organized card section two weeks ago to what looked like a ransacked shelf of garbage with empty display boxes this week.