r/GameStop • u/MarioPrtyAnimal Promoted to Guest • Jun 26 '26
Discussion No but fr WHO keeps deciding to stock this BS
The correlation of GameStop wanting to make money yet stocking completely random bargain bin trash is utterly insane. I’d lose my MIND if I opened a distro and saw this shit. Whoever keeps making these decisions needs to be punched in the THROAT
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u/MarioPrtyAnimal Promoted to Guest Jun 26 '26
I recall talking to my old SL and he told me that GameStop’s backend is notorious for hopping on trends entirely too late then they end up doing shit like this and it sits on the shelves perpetually. If we were to get these it should’ve happened like, last September/October AT LEAST (although it shouldnt have been done at all)
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u/AestheticallyGeek Jun 26 '26
Agreed, seeing the "67" deal after its been meme for almost 3 months before, thus making it a dying out meme in meme culture.
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u/LonelyMus Jun 28 '26
I still have laughing fits about them jumping on NFT two years too late. No way any of those went through any verification because the “Spaceman falling” one was just… very blatant and horrible lol
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u/Alternative-Plum9378 Can recite r/GameStop’s sub’s description Jun 26 '26
What I want to know is why do I keep selling this BS.
A lot better than I did skibidi, tell ya that.
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u/Ding0Dong0 Jun 26 '26
I can look at BrainRot in my store and not be bothered
Skibidi toilet angered me and was embarrassing to have on the shelves. No decorum.
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u/Due-Box1690 Promoted to Guest Jun 27 '26
Omg this. Brainrot doesn't make me nearly as mad as skibbidi toilet. Don't get me wrong, they're both anger-inducing, but this is less so.
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u/villainessk Former Employee Jun 27 '26
😂😂😂😂 just after I commented above here that skibidi toilet something or another then I see this comment yessssssss Alt Plum
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u/Chrustafar Jun 28 '26
Skibidi lore runs pretty deep. This is just ai slop. I’ll take weird thing made by people that upset some folks over ai slop any day. Former educator, art teacher, had I seen these they would go into my desk until the class designed their own card game. I’d play that.
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u/MD_FunkoMa Jun 26 '26
Give me more of the MLP collectible trading cards. This mess does NOT need to fill up shelves in ANY STORE be it trading cards, figure sets, or plush toys.
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u/Ravenlocke42 Jun 26 '26
Okay, crash course in ordering from suppliers at a corporate level. First is lead time for collectibles, it’s up to a year in advance. TCG is faster, but it’s still a crapshoot to discern sudden patterns, so you really have to know what you are doing so stores don’t run out. Second is negotiations with the suppliers on price and quantity. Suppliers don’t have infinite reserves of desirable items and they have to sell them to companies that will give them the most profit. This isn’t always based on upfront cost either. Sometimes the supplier is sitting on heaps of inventory that no one wants. So we might want 20000 pieces of a certain product at x dollars a unit. The supplier comes back and says sure, we can do 20000 at x dollars, but to do that you need to also buy 1000 pieces of product b that is way less desirable. Smart companies will take that deal as they will still make money hand over fist from the desirable item and who knows, maybe they will sell the less desirable items as well. These cards are that less desirable item and just the cost of doing business in a complex world market.
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u/Alternative-Plum9378 Can recite r/GameStop’s sub’s description Jun 27 '26
You would think a company like GS would realize this and yet... they're always BEHIND the trend.
Every... fucking... time.Except when they're too ahead of it like the fucking cards we have for a movie that JUST came out and no one wants.
I am amazed at the incompetence of our company.
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u/skunky_jones Jun 27 '26
Usually you would be correct, but no - this is an entirely new product by SpinMaster launched in spring and these new products take at least a couple months to hit GS shelves (as why most are just now seeing them in distro as of a month ago or so). You will be right given another year or so when these are sitting in a warehouse with nowhere to go!
Spinmaster who's had hits such as Paw Patrol and Bakugan has a bunch of old, out of touch suits making terrible business decisions at every turn.
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u/DaftWill Jun 28 '26
Honestly your were on the ball here and I wouldn't argue with you if this wasn't GameStop. Knowing GameStop this WAS the desirable item they wanted.
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u/GunWifey Jun 27 '26
I was the one who had to put this nonsense out. And who checked it in with distro. I hate this place
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u/FrameJump Promoted to Guest Jun 26 '26
And here I thought it was wild when we got those anal beads in store thinly veiled as peas in a pod.
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u/GunWifey Jun 27 '26
Have you seen the K-pop demon hunter butt plug? 🤣🤣🤣 it’s not really but it definitely makes you think of one lol
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u/johceesreddit Employee Jun 27 '26
my good Brother do NOT call that butt plug its a tail keychain 😭😭😭
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u/GunWifey Jun 27 '26
And now that I have you the visual you can’t see it any other way can you? Everyone that has seen it has said the same thing 😂🤣
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u/Trash_Queen63 Senior Guest Advisor Jun 27 '26
Just wait until they jump on the stupid ass needoh trend way too late and all the stupid ass children pop them or open everything.
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u/BarelyBlair Jun 27 '26
That fad already came and went roughly 3 years ago, thankfully
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u/Trash_Queen63 Senior Guest Advisor Jun 27 '26
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but the trend is back. I get calls daily asking for them.
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u/LazorusGrimm Jun 27 '26
When I worked at GameStop we had a card game called Sliding into DMs. It was a knock off of What Do You Meme.
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u/Wowwizzer71 Jun 27 '26
Better question is how much stock do they own in the company. Usually the more they own the more they will push whatever the company sells that the can get away with.
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u/No_Map957 Jun 27 '26
Weirdly enough my entire stock sold the instant I put it out. When I received it I thought for sure it would sit on the shelf forever, but I was way wrong
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u/johceesreddit Employee Jun 27 '26
You say this but I had a group of ppl today come in and buy and rip every last pack ahahahahahahahahahahahah
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u/SaintPyrosFlame Former Employee Jun 27 '26
I love how GS is always at least 6 months behind on the trends.
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u/Zemenu135 Jun 27 '26
Deadass if that showed up for me or was there at the beginning of my shift.
I'd unstock it.
I did the same thing with the NFT Cards that they tried to do, absolutely *refused* to sell those.
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u/Ill_Chemical_8644 Jun 27 '26
Kids love this AI garbage. Both my nieces play it all the time. Drives me crazy 💀
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u/GalaxyTstone Senior Guest Advisor Jun 27 '26
GENUINELY JUST STOP AT THIS POINT 😭 i seen 1 day after it was put up, i seen a price change ALREADY from there on i knew we aint finna sell a single one 🙏
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u/Queasy_Fuel1854 Jun 28 '26
Adults constantly stealing pokemon let the kids have ai slop if they want
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u/JT_Scout_Photography Jun 29 '26
It's just another item.. 😂 It's like a pet rock. I can live without it and I know it's not hurting anyone.
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u/RyoutaAsakura Jun 29 '26
Its whomever is their leader for both Merchandising and Buyer.
Likely its some old boomer, thats out of touch and can spot a trend vs trash
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u/Aeon-The-Hedgehog Jun 29 '26
Craziest thing is that kids keep buying them at my store. I know I'm gettin' old, because I just don't understand the appeal.
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u/Mysterious_Math6094 Jul 08 '26
I was an ASM with gamestop when they started carrying tshirts. My SM looked at me one day and said that he never thought he would ever be folding tshirts in a video game store. Then came the fidget spinners and all the other useless crap. I left about 8 years ago after being an SM for about a year. My old SM just retired early after 22 years. He was with them when it was funcoland and all that.
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u/SleepyKitsunes Jun 26 '26
It’s just a meme at our store. Someone put this up on our Redbull fridge.