YN reader Zach McGeehon reports in:

It has been several months since my last Hasbro related post, however I would like to return to that same topic with a brief follow-up. Since my last post I now have an apartment in Edwardsville, IL. This has allowed me to browse both a Super Walmart, as well as a Target store about twice a week. By monitoring the stock of both stores I have been able to make several conclusions that both support and enhance my past observations, which I will go into shortly. However, overall I do not think the situation has become any better for Star Wars (or action figure) collectors.

One major issue is still the lack of new product in stores. You can visit just about any Walmart and find the same spattering of products. I have viewed many pictures shared by my fellow collectors, and it seems the majority of Walmart stores, no matter what their location, always have the same product selection. Unfortunately, many of these items hail from 2012 assortments. The demand for these items are small, if non-existent entirely. Despite their presence on the shelves now going on three years, they still have not been clearanced out. Stores will be hard pressed to clear these items until this occurs. To further escalated the problem, many of these figures share the same database code as the new items. As far as stores are concerned, Star Wars figures are not selling, and there is no need to re-order case assortments because the shelves are stocked with at least some type of product…

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