Target Halts In-Store Sales of Pokémon and Sports Trading Cards

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   Animity May 13, 2021 at 1:54 pm MST

   They are pieces of cardboard and people are paying ridiculous amounts of money to have them sit in a closet…..

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  donnbrenda May 13, 2021 at 3:23 pm MST

  How crazy!

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  Natasha-ai May 13, 2021 at 9:26 pm MST

  Value is quite subjective. If enough people stopped believing that dollars had value, they’d just be pieces of paper too. Lots of things in this world are like that too. What’s the difference between Nike sneakers and off-brand? The value enough people give them.

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   Sue May 13, 2021 at 3:41 pm MST

   Thank you for posting this. I kept seeing all the social media posts about limits on card purchases, stores only selling them during certain hours, then stopping the sale of them altogether (in store). I couldn’t figure out what the problem was! Silly. In 10-20 years, these will be worthless.

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  CinPal May 13, 2021 at 4:27 pm MST

  Actually, its crazy but my son has cards worth a few hundred and a collection worth a few thousand. They are very collectable.

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  eiramlos May 14, 2021 at 2:19 pm MST

  That is what people said 20 years ago… lol

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   Kelly May 13, 2021 at 4:37 pm MST

   My son wanted basketball trading cards and they are impossible to find at Wal-Mart. A WM associate told us today that grown men wait in store all day for the vendor to stock them and then fight over them! Re-selling them online. They have to vary the vendor schedule to try to reduce the fighting. Crazy!

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   Liz Curtis May 13, 2021 at 6:13 pm MST

   My grandsons like to collect them & trade them. Yes they’re expensive but it’s their money.

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   Rebecca May 13, 2021 at 7:34 pm MST

   Near me this happened recently. Maybe there were other situations in other locations too? I can’t imaging they would take such action nationally by only one instance. A man was injured in a fight that stemmed from a disagreement over sports trading cards at Target, Brookfield police say EVAN CASEY | MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL | 1:40 am CDT May 10, 2021 A disagreement over sports trading cards on Friday led to a fight in the Target parking lot in Brookfield, WI and only ended after the victim accessed his gun, police said. After the victim, who has a concealed carry weapons license, obtained his gun the four suspects fled on foot. No shots were fired and the suspects were soon located by police and taken into custody. According to police: Four men, who were between the ages of 23-35, physically assaulted a 35-year-old man Friday morning after he left Target at 12725 W. Bluemound Road. The victim suffered minor injuries that did not require medical attention. A fifth suspect was identified on the scene but was not arrested. Battery, strangulation and disorderly conduct charges will be presented to the Waukesha County District Attorney’s Office.

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   Girl May 13, 2021 at 7:55 pm MST

   Kind of racist toward Asians since Pokémon originated in Japan in the 1980’s. Target likes to virtue signal a lot, but it’s all smoke in mirrors.

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  Natasha-ai May 13, 2021 at 9:21 pm MST

  How is this racist if the sports cards won’t be sold as well? People are fighting over different types of cards. Target says it won’t sell a variety of those cards.

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  Amy May 13, 2021 at 11:35 pm MST

  You can’t be serious.

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  Thia May 14, 2021 at 12:11 pm MST

  @Girl, How disappointing, most ridiculous thing I have ever read! Drink much?!

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  Heather Setzer May 14, 2021 at 10:29 pm MST

  How can something be both racist AND virtue signaling?? I’m a pretty outspoken anti-racism advocate, but I can’t imagine how anyone would jump to that conclusion in this situation. It’s a safety issue, plain and simple.

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  Heather May 14, 2021 at 10:32 pm MST

  I misunderstood your implication before. I agree Target could be accused of virtue signaling, but this is not a racist move. Its origins have nothing to do with their decision.

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   N. May 13, 2021 at 10:26 pm MST

   I’m wondering why target didn’t stop selling toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and disinfecting wipes when the virus hit. People were fighting over that stuff too. Just my 2 cents.

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  S May 13, 2021 at 11:38 pm MST

  Probably because no one pulled a gun over them🙄And they’re not a necessity. And they’re not even a Target product, they’re a vendor product.

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   Flgrl017 May 14, 2021 at 7:03 am MST

   My son buys baseball and basketball cards. Most stores have the sports cards locked up here. I’m not sure about Pokémon. He hasn’t been interested in those in several years. He did take some of his old Pokémon cards to a card store and received several hundred dollars. It is crazy.

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   Rose May 14, 2021 at 10:25 am MST

   I happend to go into the same Target last Friday and then again on Sunday (doing some pickup deals). Suffice to say, I had no idea why there were these men who were talking about driving up from the South to the Midwest, hanging around Customer Service to get to the limited sale cards behind the desk! I was like…what is going on? I just want my oline order of Kleenex and groceries… then go back Sunday and there is all kinds of singage about limits on card purchases…. Insane.

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