I'll try to add some pictures and some additional comments later today... How was your May 1 Cars 3 shopping experience?
Here are my random thoughts about the last 24 hours of Cars shopping now that we have made it to the May 1 street date... I went to 6 Walmart, 6 Meijer, 1 Toys R US, 2 Target, 2 Kroger, and 5 Walgreens between 10 pm Sunday night and 3 pm Monday afternoon (trip 1: 10 pm to 2 am, trip 2: 6 am - 3 pm)
Best display: Toys R US
Biggest pleasant surprise: Meijer - I stopped at 3 stores and all had added nice displays (Despicable Me on 1 side, Cars on 2, don'r remember the 4th)
Biggest disappointments: Tie: Walmart, Kroger, Walgreens... No diecast at any other than the Chick with headset/Mack/Cars 3 McQueen at Kroger... I wonder if Kroger and Walgreens didn't get product at launch as a penalty for releasing product early?
Not prepared for product launch: Target/Walmart/Kroger etc... No way should we have had to ask for product to be brought out... and no way should we be told that the manager is not letting them put out merchandise until after the store closes on Saturday night.
Favorite merchandise: Tie: Fireball Beach 4 pack, Desert Race 11 pack, and Piston Cup Racer 5-pack.
I'd expected we'd find the first 2 or 3 cases of singles but only saw case A... at every store...
I thought stores were more organized and prepared for the 2011 Cars 2 launch except for Meijer which was definitely ready this time around.
What are your thoughts? Let us know.
Chris
Here are my random thoughts about the last 24 hours of Cars shopping now that we have made it to the May 1 street date... I went to 6 Walmart, 6 Meijer, 1 Toys R US, 2 Target, 2 Kroger, and 5 Walgreens between 10 pm Sunday night and 3 pm Monday afternoon (trip 1: 10 pm to 2 am, trip 2: 6 am - 3 pm)
Best display: Toys R US
Biggest pleasant surprise: Meijer - I stopped at 3 stores and all had added nice displays (Despicable Me on 1 side, Cars on 2, don'r remember the 4th)
Biggest disappointments: Tie: Walmart, Kroger, Walgreens... No diecast at any other than the Chick with headset/Mack/Cars 3 McQueen at Kroger... I wonder if Kroger and Walgreens didn't get product at launch as a penalty for releasing product early?
Not prepared for product launch: Target/Walmart/Kroger etc... No way should we have had to ask for product to be brought out... and no way should we be told that the manager is not letting them put out merchandise until after the store closes on Saturday night.
Favorite merchandise: Tie: Fireball Beach 4 pack, Desert Race 11 pack, and Piston Cup Racer 5-pack.
I'd expected we'd find the first 2 or 3 cases of singles but only saw case A... at every store...
I thought stores were more organized and prepared for the 2011 Cars 2 launch except for Meijer which was definitely ready this time around.
What are your thoughts? Let us know.
Chris
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