Archived X-Mas Toy Flipping 2016 is in full swing - Hatchimals

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here is Santa Claus's note :

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I have Facebook friends in the UK and apparently Hatchimals are a thing there as well. The post that I read included a 7 year old's "review" of the toy. She thought it wasn't all that exciting when it hatched (it hatched after 20 minutes) and was boring to play with. I think there are going to be a lot of disappointed (& pissed off) parents come Christmas morning when this toy that they spent SO much time (or $) to get ends up being tossed aside and not played with.
 
tinkerbell333 said:
I have Facebook friends in the UK and apparently Hatchimals are a thing there as well. The post that I read included a 7 year old's "review" of the toy. She thought it wasn't all that exciting when it hatched (it hatched after 20 minutes) and was boring to play with. I think there are going to be a lot of disappointed (& pissed off) parents come Christmas morning when this toy that they spent SO much time (or $) to get ends up being tossed aside and not played with.
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Dont worry, Target will accept their return
 
Man, I hope we get a box on Black Friday. We're taking a truck at midnight. If we get two, I will unbox them in the Backroom, hide them in my jacket, go to the salesfloor, put down my jacket in the main aisle, shout HATCHIMALSSSSSS!!!!, and then run
 
ranger1821 said:
Had a guest clean us out on Saturday, bought all 12 Hatchimals we had on hand. Same guest returned Sunday morning with the $25 off $100 purchase. Returned all 12, and re-bought in six separate transactions using the coupon 6 times. At first TL suggested he could only use the coupon once, but then he furnished 5 additional copies of the coupon. He said he was willing to come back 5 more times throughout the day to use the coupon if needed. TL went ahead and let him repurchase in 6 transactions - effectively getting $150 credit. Had a team meeting this morning where this specific incident came up - apparently the STL indicated this toy will be short supply this year. A question was asked why the TL allowed the return and the repurchase and we got a non-answer ANSWER that we should not allow this kind of customer gaming the system in the future. Yikes, glad I am not the TL. We are sold out, as are all of the other stores around us.
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You cannot make this stuff up.

We got 6 Hatchimals on our truck Friday night. Four on the shelf, two on the end cap. At 6:55AM, I am outside the front of the store adjusting a flu shot banner. There are 8 female guests waiting in line at the softlines entrance, and 1 gentleman waiting at our grocery entrance. This is the same gentleman from the OP (although I did not realize it at the time). I head toward the grocery entrance to get back inside. TL decides to keep the door open and let the guy walk in the store. The guy literally sprints down the aisle by grocery toward the back of the store. I wanted to holler out "no running", but he wouldn't have heard me. My TL asked if I would follow him into toys and explain the 1/per person limit while he went to unlock the other door. In the amount of time it took for the second door to be unlocked the gentleman guest apparently darted through the middle of the store and began checking out with four Hatchimals at a self service check out (I didn't witness this) as I was still headed toward toys to deal with the cat fight that was about to ensue - nine guests who I presumed all would be fighting over 6 toys. I got back to toys about the same time as the 8 frantic women and all six Hatchimals were gone. GONE! We had not even been open for 120 seconds and one guest cleared us out. He stayed under the radar by using self serve check out. However, he only bought 4, and there were 6 on the shelf. WTF? Did other team members take them, or did he hide them?

The 8 female guests were furious and demanded the GSTL. The 8 women were all offered $5 store credit for the inconvenience.

Fast forward and hour, I see the guy come back in the store and radio my TL. The guest goes into home section and pulls the other two Hatchimals out from underneath bed pillows!! The TL confronted the guest and asked him to leave the store, without the Hatchimals. The Hatchimals lasted about 30 minutes before they were bought.

The TL had every intention of halting the original sale if the guest wanted more than one. However, nobody expected him to get the toys and check out so quickly. Nobody was even close to the self serve check out he used. Super poor ops mgmt.

The lengths people go to to get these things is fascinating. I found the entire ordeal kind of amusing....
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[I was not in the store for this incident, but heard about it this morning]
For the third time, the guest from the OP is lurking outside of the store because we got 4 Hatchimals in last night. He is stopped at the door and denied any Hatchimals, however, he is allowed to go in and shop as he claims he is there for groceries and a NES (which we also got). Meanwhile two other guests scurry into the store when the door is unlocked in search of Hatchimals. 2 minutes later, the 4 Hatchimals are gone from the shelf, and nobody has checked out with them. We only have those three guests in our store. WTF? Here is where it gets good.


One of the guests complains to TL about being "in stock" but found nowhere. She leaves. The other guest joins the guy from the OP in electronics as they slowly shop around Target, not really adding anything to the cart except for the 2 NES which each were allowed 1. Traffic in the store starts picking up and all cashiers (4) are reminded to allow one Hatchimal per guest if any come through. We didn't have the staff to follow the guy around because they were all busy helping guests and getting the store cleaned up from our double truck. For an hour, we continued to get calls and people stopping into the store because we apparently have them in stock, yet nobody has bought them yet. Just after 9AM, our inventory goes to 0. Again, nobody has bought them that we are aware of.


Around 10, it was found that the first guest into the store must have hid the Hatchimals before the 2nd guest could arrive in toys. Both pleaded but moved on. The guest that hid the toys was working with OP who was just walking around the store. After 9AM they grabbed the hidden toys and went to pharmacy. It sounds like they may have checked out in pharmacy with 4 Hatchimals (using 20% cartwheel), 2 NES and a tub of Vaseline. LOL.
 
ranger1821 said:
[I was not in the store for this incident, but heard about it this morning]
For the third time, the guest from the OP is lurking outside of the store because we got 4 Hatchimals in last night. He is stopped at the door and denied any Hatchimals, however, he is allowed to go in and shop as he claims he is there for groceries and a NES (which we also got). Meanwhile two other guests scurry into the store when the door is unlocked in search of Hatchimals. 2 minutes later, the 4 Hatchimals are gone from the shelf, and nobody has checked out with them. We only have those three guests in our store. WTF? Here is where it gets good.


One of the guests complains to TL about being "in stock" but found nowhere. She leaves. The other guest joins the guy from the OP in electronics as they slowly shop around Target, not really adding anything to the cart except for the 2 NES which each were allowed 1. Traffic in the store starts picking up and all cashiers (4) are reminded to allow one Hatchimal per guest if any come through. We didn't have the staff to follow the guy around because they were all busy helping guests and getting the store cleaned up from our double truck. For an hour, we continued to get calls and people stopping into the store because we apparently have them in stock, yet nobody has bought them yet. Just after 9AM, our inventory goes to 0. Again, nobody has bought them that we are aware of.


Around 10, it was found that the first guest into the store must have hid the Hatchimals before the 2nd guest could arrive in toys. Both pleaded but moved on. The guest that hid the toys was working with OP who was just walking around the store. After 9AM they grabbed the hidden toys and went to pharmacy. It sounds like they may have checked out in pharmacy with 4 Hatchimals (using 20% cartwheel), 2 NES and a tub of Vaseline. LOL.
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Nobody would get that by my pharmacy team, lol.
 
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