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02-25-2021, 08:55 AM
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you're not exaggerating about folks "camping out"
I stopped off at my local Target last week after dropping my daughter at school...so early morning. The "card aisle" was literally a sea of humanity...no fewer than 20 folks, sitting on the floor with snacks and backpacks waiting for the cards to arrive. The only thing I have seen similar is the opening morning queue at Wimbledon...well, maybe THAT is an exaggeration 
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02-26-2021, 07:44 PM
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The card flippers in my town follow the Target guy from store to store. We have 3 Targets. If I am at a Target I will look to see if they have cards, but I don't go there for cards because the shelves are always empty except for maybe some hockey cards.
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02-27-2021, 11:11 PM
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02-28-2021, 07:39 PM
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I’ve never even looked for cards at target , I don’t collect modern .... but I am going there tomorrow and maybe I’ll buy some stuff . What should I be looking for in baseball or other sports ?
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03-04-2021, 09:31 AM
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In my area we don't have any trouble getting baseball. The flippers are all after the shiny basketball and football. All of the Panini Prizim, Optic, Hoops etc. are gone the minute the distributors put it on the shelves. Usually the guys are standing there waiting and the distributor asks who wants what, and then hands it out evenly to anyone standing there. The flippers all know what days particular stores get stocked, so they show up and camp out. The local Targets have gotten to the point where they sometimes run them out of the store. Local Walmarts are literally having managers being paid off to go into the back before the distributors get there to grab the cases of product, which are then given to the guys making the payoffs. It's insane. I'm happy that I don't care about the football and basketball, because I can usually grab any baseball I'm interested in without much trouble. Sometimes when the baseball first comes out the flippers grab it out of habit, but pretty soon they stop. Last year I was able to get all of the Series 1, Series 2, Update and Chrome that I wanted. We've still got Chrome update on shelves, and some stores still have regular 2020 Update packs and boxes.
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03-07-2021, 10:59 AM
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Happened to go to Target for other stuff and not only did they have the sign limiting the number of packs, they had a locked cabinet for the cards. It was empty. But locking up cards? That's a new one on me.
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03-07-2021, 12:09 PM
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At one of my local Walgreens, they had one blister pack of 2021 topps
It was hanging, encased in its own individual plastic box with a locking mechanism. The same kind of cubes you see at Best Buy when buying electronics. The lady who checked me out said they had to do this to stop the rampant theft. It was a $9 pack... It seems I have stumbled into some sort of strange alternate reality...
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03-07-2021, 12:22 PM
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