william-james88 wrote:MeGrimlock78 wrote:Is it the retailer dumping it to liquidators or vendors?
When I was a buyer at TRU, I never remember us selling product out of our warehouse to liquidators.
On the other hand, cancelling our orders to vendors, perhaps too late for them to do anything but dump the product, THAT I remember.
That's interesting, I thought TRU would buy directly from Hasbro. Or is Hasbro the vendor in your scenario?
Sorry, yes, TRU would buy direct from Hasbro. We called all suppliers and manufacturers Vendors, so it wouldn't be confusing.
I have the feeling either this is stock retailers ordered from Hasbro, and then backed out on, or stock that Hasbro thought retailers would want but then didn't. Usually when the vendor is stuck with stock like that, they'll offer it around to vendors at a reduced cost. If no one bites, they'll drop the price further and offer to their next tier of customers, and so on until Hasbro can finally sell it.
Since these are showing up in Canadian discounters, it's stock that Hasbro Canada had excess of in their warehouse.