ShawofMordor
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I still say this is a great idea. Probably one of the best things POP could do.
Concerned Parent said:Out of the 6 stores listed as running the event none of them actually did. They didn’t get the stuff, the person who was going to run the event didn’t show, or both and none of the stores had the exclusive starter deck. When we were at the store on Marks one of the Wal-Mart employees had us ask the people stocking the card game shelves (Legends distributor) about the event. When we did they told us that they had to cancel it since it a Wal-Mart employees was supposed to be running it but none of them would (I thought it was supposed to be a volunteer Pokemon player not a Wal-Mart employee?). Eventually they gave us our one pack each and said they would be at one of the other stores from 2-4 even though it says it’s supposed to be 10-12. The thing is though one of my friends went there later and the store didn’t have any of the items (which mean they obviously took it with them). Someone else we know went to the store Legends was at from 2-4 and they said you had to be 12 and under to get anything (obviously they should not be allowed to do anything like this again since it defiantly seems like they signed up with no intentions of doing anything they were supposed too).
EDIT: Who was supposed to run these events (Wal-Mart employee, Professor, or one of the distributors)? Also is there a list of who signed up to run these events?
PokePop said:Concerned Parent: Don't blame the Prof's that volunteered. First off, not every location had a prof volunteer for it. Second, prof's were told to just show up and demo, and not do anything else. Those that went above and beyond; to arrange things beforehand, set up using their own materials; major kudos to them!!
Many profs, myself included, had asked for contact info to speak to the distributors beforehand, but couldn't get it.
The saddest thing is that at a lot of the locations had little to no Pokemon product for sale, so what would we have been promoting even if we set up ourselves?
"Hey, Pokemon cards are great fun! Too bad you can't buy any here!"
On another note, I would have been more than happy to run the event.
Have the Prof sign up, send the kit to them directly, give them contact info for the Walmart manager and/or distributor to coordinate with. The special Precons would have had to go directly to the Walmarts, of course.
I don't see how it couldn't have worked better.
annisarich said:The problem wan not wal mart
It was the distributers
Flygonian Gardy said:we were then told we could use product from the shelves, but they had none to spare.
you are totaly wrong walmart get's all the blame because it's walmart. this wouldn't have hapened if they did it any where elseDavid's Confused Pokedad said:Walmart is to share in the blame.