Walmart Stores Raise Prices Ahead of 2026 Increase, Pulse Raises Commander Prices

Our Walmart seemed overpriced already for action figures, this will just add to it.

How will this affect collectors? Same way it always does - we will pare back and buy less. We will confine our purchases to the figures we really want. We will start looking at all the repaints and asking if we really want to pay higher prices for the same figure, merely with different colors.

It'll also affect casual reviewers (cough cough cough) because we won't be able to run out and buy figures willy-nilly like we used to. Other reviewers, who are given figures for free as gifts by the companies for promotional purposes, will have tremendous advantages. As well as other reviewers who have spies inside the factories boosting early copies.

It ain't rocket science, it's just basic marketing and math. Just as with taxes. When you tax an activity or product, you get less of it because it gets 'priced out' of the market. Sure, they raised their prices, so they're getting more money from each individual purchase. But the total number of customers who buy plummets, so in the end, they LOSE money. Then the people who raised the prices stand around like idiots, wondering why all the customers, and all their money, just disappeared.

As someone who has been saying to myself for a while that "I need to stop buying this stuff", this makes it a lot easier.

DeathReviews wrote:Then the people who raised the prices stand around like idiots, wondering why all the customers, and all their money, just disappeared.

Problem is we have a president that's punishing companies for not making their stuff in America (which would drive prices way up anyway) and a Hasbro CEO who doesn't care if sales are down on their own IPs because he'd rather the company made video games. We're kinda stuck in the middle on this.

Emerje

megatran wrote:The tariff on China is supposedly going to be reduced. There are more flip-flops than I have feet.

It's also possible that all of the new Trump tariffs could just go away this month since the Supreme Court is supposed to be deciding if the new tariffs are legal or not. Only Congress has the power to change taxes ("no taxation without representation" and all that), not the President, but he's using an old war time act and stating that current foreign trade policies are an attack on America giving him the right to adjust tariffs even though nothing is mentioned about tariffs in that act.

BTW, Trump continues to be delusional, stating prices are down not up, Americans aren't paying the tariffs, there's no recession and everyone is happy.

Emerje