Pokemon cards have been one of the hottest collectibles out there since the start of the pandemic with prices rallying so wildly 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:it became a safety issue for retaile👍rs that carry them. 💯Luckily, Target has walked back on this measure with 🐼confirmation that Pokemon TCG products will start selling again this week.
The Pokemon card craze really escalated in mid-May when Target and Walmart became the most prominent stores to stop selling Pokemon card, as well NBA, MLB, NFL trading cards, due to a spike in altercations involving not only would-be shoppers and employees but also some instances in which customers retaliated against presumed scalpers. This also led to a wave of crimes related to the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:theft of Pokemon cards in Japan and the United States, with some stores even being hit by💃 criminals several times.
Nevertheless, over the course of June 1 several collectors started spotting and documenting successful Po♏kemon purchases at different Target locations, with the company’s official Ask Target Twitter account conf𒅌irming that Pokemon cards are being sold at stores once again. There is a caveat to this announcement, as Target has made it clear that in order to discourage scalping activity Pokemon TCG items will be sold on a daily basis with a limit of two products per customer.
This measure is not that much different from similar 168澳洲幸运5开奖网💞:store policies adopted by Target in early May, right before reports of violent incidents started to surface, but at least by now the company might be better equipped to deal with such occurrences. As of now, even trading card grading services like PSA and Becket🌠 have stopped taking new orders largely in part to the chaos Pokemon has brought to the entire collectible industry.
The current situation is not too dissimilar from what Microcenter and Best Buy are facing all over the US, with the latter resorting to ticket handouts to customers 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:looking for the nꦦew Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti. Unfortunately, the circumstances are unlikely to change until Pokemon card prices cool 🙈off a bit since the current market exuberance has led to a point where even McDonald’s and cereal box Pokemon cards are considered hot items.
In a year that has seenಌ The Pokemon Company tally up record profit numbers, it’s unclear how big of a chunk might have come from TCG sales. However, with growing inflation, two new Pokemon games 🐭on the horizon, and new card sets bound to come, the Pokemon hype is still far from over.