I called yesterday and talked to the manager at the target by my house. He said that they are for sure getting some in stock this week but you have to order it exclusively online and then it ships to your house. He said they're not doing site to store or walk ins. He said straight from the warehouse to your house.
My question is this. If the consoles are at the warehouse and when you buy them online they go straight from the warehouse to your home, why would the store say that they're getting more in stock? If the PS5 is never coming to the store then why are you saying y'all are getting some more? he contradicted himself when he was talking to me.
It's like all of these retail workers are trying to stick to a script but the whole logic behind it is flawed.
It really should be like this.
Stores get PS5's in stock and sell them exclusively online on their store site website. Example, If I want a PS5 from the Walmart by my house then I should have to go on Walmart's website, then go to a specific location, then find the PS5 in that stores inventory and not the entire country.
The fight for consoles should be strictly local. It doesn't make any sense for me to be in Cleveland competing online with a dude in Los Angeles over a PS5 that has to get delivered to a local store that we choose. Just send all the systems to the local stores from the warehouse. Then make them available exclusively online only at the stores that have them in stock. then customers can buy them online and then go to the store to pick them up or even do curbside. Or even better would be if you order it online from a specific Walmart then that Walmart should just ship it to your house. That way the consoles stay at the store so that the stores can easily keep track of inventory and then they get shipped to your house to prevent large crowds at the stores during COVID.
Hire me Wally World. Hire me.
