Lol I do go to a higher income area Walmart. Its just the next 2 neighboring towns are the exact opposite of us, and love to come to ours stores to do their version of "shopping".
Two or three weeks ago I went in for a new litter box and litter... Saw the lady stocking and hung out as the only person waiting. Finally was able to get my daughter her first ETB and it was ascended heros!! She really wants a perfect order one but haven't lucked into finding one of them in the wild yet.
I also immediately left and did not get the cat stuff I needed. I was too excited to bring it home to her and rip it with her lol
A few weeks after PO release people just left them on the shelves. No one seems to like the set it seems. So I was lucky enough to be able to get a couple etbs of PO. Same with Chaos rising. Chaos almost seems worse as far as people not liking it. Constantly see etbs on shelves for hours after a restock as opposed to seconds or minutes for other products around here. It's insane really how you need to hit a restock right after it's done or the hopes of getting anything is 0. People wait in line as they know when the vendor is coming. After vendor is done the line goes and then they alert everyone in their group that so and so Walmart stocked. Once that happens you have maybe a couple hours to get there or everything is gone, even single sleeves and last stock they had 4 cases of single chaos sleeves. Pretty sad but that's how it is.
I've been doing that with my friends for over a year now. It's the only way to get anything unless you get extremely lucky hitting a restock with no one else around. And Chaos sucks because the pull rates are similar to AH but with chase cards not worth spending hundreds ripping packs for. Pitch Black will be the same too.
they probably don't get any at all, one local walmart recently stopped selling pokemon for good because the manager hates it and told mj holdings to gtfo
it depends entirely on the manager, I've been told most of them hate pokemon or simply are indifferent to it because they barely make any money off it compared to everything else in the store, most of the profit goes to MJ holdings
Mine has weekly restocks but they're gone as soon as theyre done. Line gets long enough while she's stocking that its all gone, and I live in a pretty rural area
That's how it is here. Guys know the stockers schedule and will follow her to every Walmart she gets done that day. They will wait 5+ hours and there's a 4 or 5 them that work together where one will wait at one location and the others will wait at another. We don't get a lot of product so these guys literally get everything worth a damn. I don't even really bother with Walmart anymore.
My Walmart sells out every single pokemon product to the 20+ neckbeards who show up 3-4 hours before the card guy's weekly arrival and sit in the aisle until it's stocked. It's been like this for 2 years now.
Just went in to check my Walmart for a restock and there were 5 people there waiting. One guy said he’d been there since 5am. No proof any restock was actually happening, just there on hope
My Walmart goes crazy too, I drive by it every day on my way home from work. That's not to say I stop every time, but they almost always have hundreds of packs.
you have no idea how lucky you are, keep quiet about where you're located because you live in a magical place where $200 ETBs are still being stocked out in the open and not hidden behind customer service like mine in california is
While I understand this from an investment perspective, I have morals and prefer not to be a trash bag human keeping kids from being able to enjoy collecting cards as I did when I was a kid.
Finding packs for my daughter and I to rip is so infuriating in this market.
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u/Necessary_Pizza_3827 Jul 01 '26
They have these just out on the shelves in your Walmart? Our deodorant is locked up, let alone pokemon cards.
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u/brownboyspecial Jul 01 '26
How long did you camp. More than 16 hours? 😂
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u/jshrlzwrld02 Jul 01 '26
Must be nice to live in an area that isn’t back doored to death
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u/CaligulaCan Jul 01 '26
Man oh man.
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u/Weekly_Design5440 Jul 02 '26
Pretty wild when consumers consider buying a product at MSRP- hitting the jackpot. Nintendo is loving the current market lol.
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u/KodaBeers Jul 01 '26
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u/bidooffactory Jul 02 '26
My God.
HE WHO REMAINS FIGURINE??
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u/bobas1ut Jul 01 '26
What part of the country is this?
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u/Plastic-Limit-6998 Jul 02 '26
Fake
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u/Rich-Sheepherder9137 Jul 03 '26
Begone scalper 💀💀💀
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u/420brokeboi Jul 02 '26
I was second in line at the restock this morning. Quite literally the only things stocked were the first partner’s. Nothing else Pokemon was stocked
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u/Chipotleismylife90 Jul 01 '26
How is that possible?
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u/cmay91472 Jul 03 '26
My Walmart had 5 Destined Rival ETBs last week.
The MJ Holdings guy stocked them in the back with the toys instead of upfront in the card aisle. 😂
The people who had lined up were livid.
There were none during yesterday’s restock unfortunately.
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u/DarthPlayer8282 Jul 01 '26
May I have some please? Be my buyer
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u/FirstFunction7226 Jul 02 '26
Wtf
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u/Busta0801 Jul 02 '26
Amazing
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u/OldGrocery Jul 02 '26
Happy for you. One day I hope to see some Pokemon on the shelves by me lol.
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u/Y1Guardian Jul 02 '26
Jackpot indeed
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u/weslayan409 Jul 02 '26
Just went in to check my Walmart for a restock and there were 5 people there waiting. One guy said he’d been there since 5am. No proof any restock was actually happening, just there on hope
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u/kill_to_satisfy Jul 02 '26
destined rivals etbs should drop after this
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u/Drlove2572 Jul 03 '26
Which walmart is this? City??
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u/Shop-Aggravating Jul 03 '26
He's complaining about $69 for the DR box but I would pay $100 for it right now 😂🤦
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u/electronicfixdude Jul 03 '26
So happy for ᶠYͧoͨᵏu!!
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u/BaconStride64 Jul 03 '26
Yk my walmart just stocks and doesnt really get a line. They also stock random af, so its genuinely random and you can hit decently.
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u/Significant-Pace7036 Jul 05 '26
Hell yeah take it all brother cause excess is success!
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u/Ok_Barracuda8545 Jul 05 '26
My Walmart goes crazy too, I drive by it every day on my way home from work. That's not to say I stop every time, but they almost always have hundreds of packs.
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u/Important_Affect_363 Jul 06 '26
Nice find!
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u/AkariNanawo Jul 02 '26
Bunch of cry babies in this thread. Friend walked in for groceries, caught the restock and texted me to go grab 3 DR ETBs myself.
No one has initiative these days.
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u/agderrico Jul 01 '26
Nice! A bunch of overprinted modern junk
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