My guess is someone at the distribution center just started opening up stuff to help get shelves filled. The other scenario is that the store DID receive a case (doubtful, Kmart NEVER gets things that early), it didn't have a street date (Hasbro boxes are generally a red square with the release date) or someone ignored it, no street date was entered into computer for Bulkhead, and then someone added it in.
#Transformers animated bulkhead movie
Most Kmart employees aren't TF fans, so what most likely happens is they scanned a movie voyager, wrote down the KSN, name, price and then entered that in. The repack is one possibility, and the most likely scenario, if only a couple of items come in. Store employees at the department manager level can edit items within the RMU item management screen, however. If the item was repacked its quite possible the UPC has not been entered/activated in the system. I didn't often see this as the case with toys, but I can confirm they had a serious order drought.ģ. Like 3-4 Wiis at a time, 360 or two here or there. The reason you see few Wiis/360s come in when they're advertised as "arriving" (at least this is the case for our region) is Kmart doesn't often get full shipments. When the distro center opens packages and ships them to individual stores, we call this repacking.Ģ. The distro in Lawrence doesn't really open up toys, usually only cosmetics, small electronics, Health&Beauty crap, etc. Generally all TF toys come packed in the standard issue Hasbro boxes. Having worked for Kmart maybe I can clear things up:ġ. I still find it odd that whoever puts the UPCs into the system didn't feel a need to differentiate between movie and animated, but the fact that something like that is possible makes it more likely that this was an authentic find.