Limits on high-demand items again?

[TLSpot]

I hear we are placing purchasing limits on certain high-demand items again. Is this company-wide?

 

[Rarejem]

I don't think that has ever changed and it wasn't ever really a new thing.

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

I hear we are placing purchasing limits on certain high-demand items again. Is this company-wide?

We are putting a limit on those items.

 

[TLSpot]

I don't think that has ever changed and it wasn't ever really a new thing.

Ah. My store was asked to take down the limit signs in spring.

 

[Rarejem]

Ah. My store was asked to take down the limit signs in spring.

I don't think that means that the policy changed, just that the signs weren't needed anymore. I may be mistaken, but I think stores have the right to limit quantities on anything if they find it necessary to do so.

 

[TLSpot]

I don't think that means that the policy changed, just that the signs weren't needed anymore. I may be mistaken, but I think stores have the right to limit quantities on anything if they find it necessary to do so.

Okay, so it depends by district or store? My store had no limits on merch this summer and we were told it was almost company wide, but I see ASANTS applies here. Thank you for the clarification.

 

[Amanda Cantwell]

AFAIK the only high demand items with limits are

limit 1:
Xbox series x
Ps5
At home covid test

limit 2:
Pokémon cards

 

[Rarejem]

There's a limit on Lunchables this week.

 

[Times Up]

There's a limit on Lunchables this week.

😱😱😱😱😱

 

[happygoth]

I saw a sign limiting Tylenol and Up and Up brand acetaminophen just the other day. Don't know if it's new or if they just didn't take down the one from last year.

 

[GRC]

I would assume they're just doing this as a precaution in case people start going around buying everything up for fear of the TP factories shutting down.

 

[Fluttervale]

I saw a sign limiting Tylenol and Up and Up brand acetaminophen just the other day. Don't know if it's new or if they just didn't take down the one from last year.

It’s new.

 

[Anelmi]

I think luggage is considered a high demand item right now too.

 

[Rarejem]

It’s new.

It was limited at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020.

 

[Fluttervale]

It was limited at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020.

Yeah, but the sign came down and went back up recently.

 

[IWishIKnew]

I think luggage is considered a high demand item right now too.

You have luggage? Our luggage aisle has been completely taken down and replaced with chest freezers, fans & air conditioners.

We still have some backpacks and kiddie luggage.

 

[SuperTarget]

Our store limited squishmallows in toys lol.. I assume if the store wants to limit them corporate will allow it.

 

[Amanda Cantwell]

Our store limited squishmallows in toys lol.. I assume if the store wants to limit them corporate will allow it.

Yes— stores reserve the right to limit any item as needed as long as it’s posted somewhere that it’s limited (the aisle, for example)

 

[Luck]

I dont blame them.
The quantity of PIPO at my DC is starting to look awfully thin. We have a lot of bottled water but the TP/PT PIPO are pretty low. Lowest its been in a year now.

 

[Amanda Cantwell]

Unrelated but what does PIPO stand for? I know it’s paper products but I never knew what the abbreviation was

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

Unrelated but what does PIPO stand for? I know it’s paper products but I never knew what the abbreviation was

Pallet-In, Pallet-Out

 

[Far from newbie]

We have zero stock of : luggage, Tylenol, motion sickness anything, cat litter.

VERY low on paper towels, huge outs on cleaning supplies.

still an over abundance of tp, wipes, hand sanitizer, toys (carts Full of toys are everywhere).

 

[Captain Orca]

Stupid ass average American idiot.

 

[Far from newbie]

Stupid ass average American idiot.

I’m not disagreeing in general, but Please explain. Are you referring to the hoarders that call themselves ‘preppers’ Or something else ?

 

[Captain Orca]

Hoarding: Almost every day at Cabelas there are vultures lined up at the doors at 6am waiting for the 8 am opening then they run to the gun and ammo dept and clean them out. Every day. Still.