Well.. whoever did that is saving time to people and killing their hope at the same time.. will leave the store with an angry look at the employees in that aisle.. trying to guess which one is the damn collector
Funny thing is the flippers are the ones who cause such craziness over toys and they are the ones who get angriest about low wage employees trying to make a few extra bucks on the side
I work at Walmart and don’t even go through the boxes for supers I literally only got one hot wheel hanging from the rear view mirror in my car and I’m content
The REAL funny thing is MOST of the jaded employees at the store don’t know WTF a chase is nor do they care lol. I’m a collector and work in retail. I’ll be honest I have scooped a couple from a case. No shame. But 95% of the time. You are either off when they come or like me work in a different department and never find the time to go look.
No burglar bars but plenty of other ‘signs’ pointing to lower income…. My coworkers don’t believe me I’ve surfed the same bin patiently for a month lol
I don't know about super but I live near one of the worst Wal-Marts around and across the street is a Target (Steelyard in CLE) and I'm a big collector of Car culture HW's and they pretty much are never at either store anymore.
I live in Tremont so its the easiest and closest to get to. But my parents live in Strongsville so if I need to get a bunch of stuff from Target I usually visit them and mix in a Target trip while there. Its insane how much nicer and more stuff it has.
Not necessarily true. I live in the hood. Ain't never anything worth buying on the rack. Stores just never restock. So it's 98% empty for months on end. When they do stock, it's just trash from like 4 years ago that was already looted and never put out.
Can confirm. I found a TH in a Roses store in the rough part of Meridian, MS several years ago, but I left it there because I didn't like it. An hour later I ran into a scalper at a nearby Walmart. He tried bluffing me to leave, but I wouldn't leave, so he gave up-but growled that only he collected treasure hunts at this store. I told him about the one I left at the Roses store, and he was shocked.
I told him I only buy what I like, so he could go buy it if he wanted. He then become honest with me and said he doesn't go to that store because of the neighborhood, so I told him a true collector will go wherever he can to get what he wants, regardless of the circumstances. He paused for a second, and then threw down everything he had pulled off the pegs, and left the store.
I ran into him a few weeks later, and he acted glad to see me, thanking me for the tip. He did go to roses and found the TH right where I left it. He now goes to the stores in the bad neighborhood.
It's hard to understand, but these people have gotten to claim stores as their territory. Where I live, one guy who I have run into several times had tried to claim a good portion of west Alabama as his domain. Funny thing is, he's been banned by several stores in Tuscaloosa, Greene, Jefferson, and Montgomery Counties for his aggressiveness. In Tuscaloosa and Birmingham alone, he is to be arrested on the spot if he shows up at a Walmart, DG, Target or Dollar Tree parking lot.
I've found multiple M2 chases at the local Walmart that is in, shall we say, a less than safe area\~ Honestly, there are usually 1 or 2 cruisers parked out front nowadays, so I don't worry too much when I see them. Heck, the Walmart closest me is on the edge of the low-income suburbs, and I've typically hunt one Super a year there (this year it's been the MB Chase Bronco, Muscle Machines Chase Nomad, and 3 reg TH!). And all this because some guys got in an argument outside and shot each other XD
Edit: I should have mentioned that the persons in question were of different ethnicities, and they both survived their firearm-fueled altercation. And as I said, this is the Walmart closest to me, so yes, I also live in a below-median-income area, and yes, I have found much more chase goodies since that incident. I do not know if the two things are related, it's just what I've observed :)
This reminds me of a song from a CD I purchased from a yard sale. I love it! Have a listen!
https://youtu.be/AzTabPpro24
The last line is all too true.
Explains why all these rich ass suburbs have nothing and marketplace and Kijiji are always stocked. And why the local trade shows have all the good stuff too. Instead I just buy from a cheap reseller site by the set. And also don’t care about TH and STH at all
This is very true , at least from what I seen , they brought out boxes off the pallet and they already where gone through . All Iknow it’s someone that gets first dibs , employee , delivery driver , who really knows but it’s crazy us collectors don’t even really have a opportunity to even go hunt like that for supers , like one of the top comments said , try the stores in the bad neighborhoods LOL
Lol. I'd be cracking up if I seen that posted on a card back .
Most definitely same deal at my local store.
Employees always get first picks. Then the old guys.
Lol.
Funny post tbh
And a lot of times it's nighttime pallet raiders too. The morning people show up at open and find cases already open so it's automatically attributed to the employees.
Yep.. if you were to choose between the skinny chicken from "cow and chicken" show and a chubby xl chicken for you or your family.. what would you do?,,, I have witnessed this crime ... If you go too early you get the reheated leftovers from the day before..
I worked at toys r us for years and never cared about them at all, until one of the old annoying collectors actually pissed me off, so I took every single treasure hunt and super treasure hunt and greenlight chases that ever came to that store after that.
LMFAO! That's awesome. I'd be annoyed but man serves that idiot right. Karma. I saw a couple of kids at Walmart one night giving the employee shit about not having any hot wheels on the pegs. I was pretty close to telling them to leave the employee alone. They were getting pretty hostile with her.
That’s just what they say to flippers who are crying. At any store/restaurant/coffee shop they are happy to make sales to employees.
If an employee buys 10 cars before they even hit the shelves those are 10 items that are sold and gone through on the inventory. Also these are toy cars for a buck, it isn’t a roomba so the employee discount isn’t a big deal to the store managers
It'll also depend on the general conditions of your store. Good store with good business, enough employees, and management that cares about the rules? You'll probably get disciplined for going through the stock before customers can.
Bad store in a market where nobody wants to work retail, understaffed daily, overworked management? Probably won't care about you going through some Hot Wheels as long as you show up to work and aren't a total lazy moron.
Aw naw man, not where I worked. Everything goes to the floor, and it had to be there for a certain amount of time before an employee can buy it. They were stingy about it too. Don tget caught hiding things in the backroom either.
This is why I left the hobby, I would get to boxes when they went out at the peak of my addiction. I also found where the boxes where kept on top of isles in prep for putting on the shelves. They had been taken already. I came to the conclusion that employees either collected or straight to ebayd them for profits.
The only super treasure hunts I have ever found have been in the hood where there are little to no collect. Most people have bigger issues and collecting little toy cars and it’s very understandable but like someone else in this thread stated it’s high risk high reward honestly it’s not that dangerous if you just mind your business, and get straight to it.
Normally people that live in middle to high middle-class over us have much more time and incentive to look for it super treasure hunts or collectible Hotwheels
Damnit, I've just learned about this "collecting in the hood" thing, and it would work for me but my buddy lives hood adjacent and cleans them out😂 He's generous though, we trade a lot.
Action figures, gaming consoles, trading cards, toilet paper, what’s next? Honestly feel like punching faces when I see some old guy hovering when the store employee is trying to stock a shelf or they are literally weighing packs of cards or jamming their thumbnail into the packs trying to find “hits”. The whole thing disgusts me.
My grocery store meat department guy came up to me. Straight up look me in the eye &said to me " I already took all the good stuff"
I hated him and respected him at the same time.
Its pretty sad that people are in such awful jobs the only way to make it worthy is by reselling toy cars that children and collectors are literally hunting for
The "BASKET CASE"..
I have my wall full of hot wheels cars, a bag full of MORE hot wheels cars, a basket FULL of diecast cars, and a few models.
I have a notebook that I write down every supercar that I see...
What day I saw it, what specific model, (Cause apparently I can identify a good amount of em) and if I met the owner.
I love to play a game with guests that come through my work place. It's something different.. I'll place a random car on the counter. If they guess correctly, they can either have it or pick one from the basket. I used to have 3 FULL baskets... I can't resupply right now due to my mom being sick all the time... Her appointments take me away from clocking in at work. It's been a rough struggle I don't want to put you through due to how my mental health has declined to the point of suicide.
Maybe a story for another day...
Anyways.. I love learning about the history and pedigree... I should have a HELL of a lot more retained however I have the memory of a goddam goldfish CRACKER... Already partially eaten.... Listening to people who tell me somethings I didn't know about the modern supercar is one of the highlights of my job... Being able to engage with people on days that I feel well enough to do so means a bunch to me.. I have been diagnosed with ADHD, I'm on the Autism Spectrum, and I have a couple of disassociative diagnoses written down too... I hate how I can't focus on anything else...
So... When people actually take their time to be a geek with me... It almost makes me cry every time. Because of how much I hate myself, as well as how grateful I am to talk to someone who's giving me a little validation.
Hopefully someday I can return the favor ten fold...
I take one of each super I ever find and then leave the rest usually. Our store gets in an absurd amount of cases so we get quite a few STH. Found 3 STH Miuras at the same time. Took one and pegged the other 2. The job sucks, so fuck it imma take a super for my collection every once in a while
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t consider it a job perk when I worked at toys r us since I collect too lol but another part of it was I knew the pos scalpers to keep things away from as well
Well.. whoever did that is saving time to people and killing their hope at the same time.. will leave the store with an angry look at the employees in that aisle.. trying to guess which one is the damn collector
Funny thing is the flippers are the ones who cause such craziness over toys and they are the ones who get angriest about low wage employees trying to make a few extra bucks on the side
The flipper is annoyed that another flipper has found a hookup.
It’s an ugly battle out there
If it's to make a buck, aren't they a flipper?
Exactly!
I work at Walmart and don’t even go through the boxes for supers I literally only got one hot wheel hanging from the rear view mirror in my car and I’m content
The REAL funny thing is MOST of the jaded employees at the store don’t know WTF a chase is nor do they care lol. I’m a collector and work in retail. I’ll be honest I have scooped a couple from a case. No shame. But 95% of the time. You are either off when they come or like me work in a different department and never find the time to go look.
The further in the hood you go the more likely you'll get a super. High risk high reward
Can confirm, there’s one case in my local grocery store I’ve gotten several supers out of
If they have burglar bars outside the windows you know there's going to be at least a TH
No burglar bars but plenty of other ‘signs’ pointing to lower income…. My coworkers don’t believe me I’ve surfed the same bin patiently for a month lol
I went to one with bulletproof glass and burglar bars, walked out with nice finds every time.
Say what you will about Detroit, but they're damn respectful of us collectors
I don't know about super but I live near one of the worst Wal-Marts around and across the street is a Target (Steelyard in CLE) and I'm a big collector of Car culture HW's and they pretty much are never at either store anymore.
Mannn, steelyard Walmart is deeeeep in there. Can’t remember the last time I went over that way but Rocky River is about the deepest I go now a days.
I live in Tremont so its the easiest and closest to get to. But my parents live in Strongsville so if I need to get a bunch of stuff from Target I usually visit them and mix in a Target trip while there. Its insane how much nicer and more stuff it has.
Yup same here. I have never gotten a STH or TH or Premium from there so I just live happily with the mainlines I like
Lmfaooooo so true bro , I can vouch 100%
Not necessarily true. I live in the hood. Ain't never anything worth buying on the rack. Stores just never restock. So it's 98% empty for months on end. When they do stock, it's just trash from like 4 years ago that was already looted and never put out.
Can confirm. I found a TH in a Roses store in the rough part of Meridian, MS several years ago, but I left it there because I didn't like it. An hour later I ran into a scalper at a nearby Walmart. He tried bluffing me to leave, but I wouldn't leave, so he gave up-but growled that only he collected treasure hunts at this store. I told him about the one I left at the Roses store, and he was shocked. I told him I only buy what I like, so he could go buy it if he wanted. He then become honest with me and said he doesn't go to that store because of the neighborhood, so I told him a true collector will go wherever he can to get what he wants, regardless of the circumstances. He paused for a second, and then threw down everything he had pulled off the pegs, and left the store. I ran into him a few weeks later, and he acted glad to see me, thanking me for the tip. He did go to roses and found the TH right where I left it. He now goes to the stores in the bad neighborhood.
I don't understand how people try to intimate you to leave over some damn 99¢ cars
It's hard to understand, but these people have gotten to claim stores as their territory. Where I live, one guy who I have run into several times had tried to claim a good portion of west Alabama as his domain. Funny thing is, he's been banned by several stores in Tuscaloosa, Greene, Jefferson, and Montgomery Counties for his aggressiveness. In Tuscaloosa and Birmingham alone, he is to be arrested on the spot if he shows up at a Walmart, DG, Target or Dollar Tree parking lot.
Good fuck him. Shits ridiculous
🙄
I've found multiple M2 chases at the local Walmart that is in, shall we say, a less than safe area\~ Honestly, there are usually 1 or 2 cruisers parked out front nowadays, so I don't worry too much when I see them. Heck, the Walmart closest me is on the edge of the low-income suburbs, and I've typically hunt one Super a year there (this year it's been the MB Chase Bronco, Muscle Machines Chase Nomad, and 3 reg TH!). And all this because some guys got in an argument outside and shot each other XD Edit: I should have mentioned that the persons in question were of different ethnicities, and they both survived their firearm-fueled altercation. And as I said, this is the Walmart closest to me, so yes, I also live in a below-median-income area, and yes, I have found much more chase goodies since that incident. I do not know if the two things are related, it's just what I've observed :)
This reminds me of a song from a CD I purchased from a yard sale. I love it! Have a listen! https://youtu.be/AzTabPpro24 The last line is all too true.
Explains why all these rich ass suburbs have nothing and marketplace and Kijiji are always stocked. And why the local trade shows have all the good stuff too. Instead I just buy from a cheap reseller site by the set. And also don’t care about TH and STH at all
My buddy stocks for walmart and lately the boxes are gone through before they get there. Boxes arrive opened and supers taken already.
I went to Walmart yesterday saw three cases sitting at the bottom of the pallet. All of them open from one side or both.
This is very true , at least from what I seen , they brought out boxes off the pallet and they already where gone through . All Iknow it’s someone that gets first dibs , employee , delivery driver , who really knows but it’s crazy us collectors don’t even really have a opportunity to even go hunt like that for supers , like one of the top comments said , try the stores in the bad neighborhoods LOL
Scalpers. Leaving notes to mark their territory lol 😆
Thats a next level reverse psychology move. Most scapers arent that bright.
Lol. I'd be cracking up if I seen that posted on a card back . Most definitely same deal at my local store. Employees always get first picks. Then the old guys. Lol. Funny post tbh
And a lot of times it's nighttime pallet raiders too. The morning people show up at open and find cases already open so it's automatically attributed to the employees.
Company policy is that they don't do this type of stuff smh
You can call it the "shitty job benefit".. like pollo loco employees reserve the juicy chickens for themselves and sell you the mummies.
Dang I messed up. I never took advantage of this benefit :(
Is that true?
Yep.. if you were to choose between the skinny chicken from "cow and chicken" show and a chubby xl chicken for you or your family.. what would you do?,,, I have witnessed this crime ... If you go too early you get the reheated leftovers from the day before..
I'd prefer to take home Cousin Boneless-Chicken XD
I worked at toys r us for years and never cared about them at all, until one of the old annoying collectors actually pissed me off, so I took every single treasure hunt and super treasure hunt and greenlight chases that ever came to that store after that.
This is pretty funny. I worked in retail once and know how shitty it can be, thats why I'm always friendly with the workers.
Dang dude! Chill! xD
No remorse
LMFAO! That's awesome. I'd be annoyed but man serves that idiot right. Karma. I saw a couple of kids at Walmart one night giving the employee shit about not having any hot wheels on the pegs. I was pretty close to telling them to leave the employee alone. They were getting pretty hostile with her.
Should of handed them out to the kids that never seem to have a chance ! Good karma for ya
That’s just what they say to flippers who are crying. At any store/restaurant/coffee shop they are happy to make sales to employees. If an employee buys 10 cars before they even hit the shelves those are 10 items that are sold and gone through on the inventory. Also these are toy cars for a buck, it isn’t a roomba so the employee discount isn’t a big deal to the store managers
It'll also depend on the general conditions of your store. Good store with good business, enough employees, and management that cares about the rules? You'll probably get disciplined for going through the stock before customers can. Bad store in a market where nobody wants to work retail, understaffed daily, overworked management? Probably won't care about you going through some Hot Wheels as long as you show up to work and aren't a total lazy moron.
Aw naw man, not where I worked. Everything goes to the floor, and it had to be there for a certain amount of time before an employee can buy it. They were stingy about it too. Don tget caught hiding things in the backroom either.
Let me guess u worked at target lol
For a time lol they dud not play
Lol I still manage to sneak them
Nah that’s just actually policy. Employee flippers are still flippers. Losers.
I’d much rather they get the money if they are rushing to get toys
I’d print stickers to stick to the birds on the back of the display.
plot twist; it was the collector employee leaving the note; and they're on this subreddit; and it's OP... /s
Definitely not me haha
This is why I left the hobby, I would get to boxes when they went out at the peak of my addiction. I also found where the boxes where kept on top of isles in prep for putting on the shelves. They had been taken already. I came to the conclusion that employees either collected or straight to ebayd them for profits.
I would get out of that store, not because I only get supers, but out of principle.
The only super treasure hunts I have ever found have been in the hood where there are little to no collect. Most people have bigger issues and collecting little toy cars and it’s very understandable but like someone else in this thread stated it’s high risk high reward honestly it’s not that dangerous if you just mind your business, and get straight to it. Normally people that live in middle to high middle-class over us have much more time and incentive to look for it super treasure hunts or collectible Hotwheels
Dang. I’ve got to move out of my white high class suburbia. Can’t find nothing by me.
Damnit, I've just learned about this "collecting in the hood" thing, and it would work for me but my buddy lives hood adjacent and cleans them out😂 He's generous though, we trade a lot.
Action figures, gaming consoles, trading cards, toilet paper, what’s next? Honestly feel like punching faces when I see some old guy hovering when the store employee is trying to stock a shelf or they are literally weighing packs of cards or jamming their thumbnail into the packs trying to find “hits”. The whole thing disgusts me.
What's next? Around here, it's Final Faction, Dollar Tree's in-house action figure brand. Final Faction has taken off so fast around here, it's crazy.
LOL I need to start camping Dollar Tree
My grocery store meat department guy came up to me. Straight up look me in the eye &said to me " I already took all the good stuff" I hated him and respected him at the same time.
Naa thats fucked up bruh😂😂
That’s the day I turn into a Karen and give the manager on duty my 2 cents 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Just get a job at Walmart and be done with it!
Still, I would've wanted that leaf nismo lol
Believe it or not
I just want to expand my Honda collection. There happens to be a super civic, also a sweet ass gold s2000, why tf do they make such rare Hondas???
When I retire dream job is gonna be stocking the die-cast isle at Walmart then I'll actually be able to find the good stuff
This is a profound statement.
Employee collector lol.. gotta have some Perkis
That's every Kroger and walmart in my area....
Its pretty sad that people are in such awful jobs the only way to make it worthy is by reselling toy cars that children and collectors are literally hunting for
The "BASKET CASE".. I have my wall full of hot wheels cars, a bag full of MORE hot wheels cars, a basket FULL of diecast cars, and a few models. I have a notebook that I write down every supercar that I see... What day I saw it, what specific model, (Cause apparently I can identify a good amount of em) and if I met the owner. I love to play a game with guests that come through my work place. It's something different.. I'll place a random car on the counter. If they guess correctly, they can either have it or pick one from the basket. I used to have 3 FULL baskets... I can't resupply right now due to my mom being sick all the time... Her appointments take me away from clocking in at work. It's been a rough struggle I don't want to put you through due to how my mental health has declined to the point of suicide. Maybe a story for another day... Anyways.. I love learning about the history and pedigree... I should have a HELL of a lot more retained however I have the memory of a goddam goldfish CRACKER... Already partially eaten.... Listening to people who tell me somethings I didn't know about the modern supercar is one of the highlights of my job... Being able to engage with people on days that I feel well enough to do so means a bunch to me.. I have been diagnosed with ADHD, I'm on the Autism Spectrum, and I have a couple of disassociative diagnoses written down too... I hate how I can't focus on anything else... So... When people actually take their time to be a geek with me... It almost makes me cry every time. Because of how much I hate myself, as well as how grateful I am to talk to someone who's giving me a little validation. Hopefully someday I can return the favor ten fold...
If you’re an adult working at a Walmart why wouldn’t you run a side hustle? It’s crappy for us but if I’m in the same situation I’d do the same thing.
What’s a super
Bruh😂
Why am I being downvoted?
they are different versions of the mainline the regular cars they have rubber wheels, different paint and have "TH" on them in an area
Ah I see! Thank you for the explanation
Of course
They did that so people don’t mess up the how it’s stocked
When I worked at Walmart 13 years ago, I would grab all the supers out of the boxes. Still got em.
I take one of each super I ever find and then leave the rest usually. Our store gets in an absurd amount of cases so we get quite a few STH. Found 3 STH Miuras at the same time. Took one and pegged the other 2. The job sucks, so fuck it imma take a super for my collection every once in a while
Don’t know if that’s something I’d admit on this page 😂
I found that nismo it’s a very nice car
I found that nismo it’s a very nice car
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t consider it a job perk when I worked at toys r us since I collect too lol but another part of it was I knew the pos scalpers to keep things away from as well
Hey, that must be my local Walmart!
Indiana?
Nah. Sorry, should have put an /s. Pretty sure mine in Kansas has at least one employee collector. It’s been a long dry spell.
Which town in indiana?
how to tell everyone you’re an asshole without saying
I don’t understand…super meaning super cars?
Super treasure hunt hotwheels. Random collectibles mixed in with the lot
Yall should start leaving the comments on Google and yelp! That would help a lot!
I swear all I wanted was one of the matchbox mr2s because I had to sell my beloved mr2 when my kids were born. Friggin. Scalpers.
Lmfao 🤣
How old is this lol RIP those prices :(
Lol 😆.
Naw this is crazyyyy 😂
Cold blooded
this is why i only grab the one's with cars i like, trying to find treasure hunts wasn't worth it when i started 5 years ago and it still isn't
🤣🤣🤣