Pokemon Trading Cards Pulled From Shelves At Some Walmart And Target Stores

Some Walmart and Target locations are pulling their Pokemon Trading Card Game stock due to customer behavior over the highly sought cards. Right now, Pokemon cards are in high demand around the world due to a combination of increased interest and low supply due to COVID-19 related supply line issues. Because of this, many fans (and scalpers) are doing whatever they can to get Pokemon cards where they can get them, with some people waiting in stores for hours until new Pokemon card stock is put on shelves. Some stores even resorted to physically handing out trading card booster packs at set times, limiting customers to one pack of cards.

So, I guess Pokémon, MLB, NFL, and NBA trading cards are no longer going to be sold at Target stores starting this Friday. pic.twitter.com/pUzbQ9Esey

Some Walfarts are banning #PokemonTCG sales. I don’t think the scalping problem will go away until Pokemon is able to resume normal (or increased) printing production.

We covered the production problem last year: https://t.co/LZ8mqNnNRJ pic.twitter.com/T4nEcbedCo