On February 15, Walmart opened up preorders for the adorable Hatchin’ Yoshi Toy from Spin Master. I jumped on it as soon as I saw it available, officially placing my order at 7:32 AM Pacific. I checked on it for several hours afterward, including at the time of the post I published at 9:48 AM Pacific, and preorders were still available throughout the morning and into the early afternoon. Despite that, however, my preorder was canceled today, February 22, along with the orders of others who are reporting the same on Reddit.
Even more frustrating, I know people who placed an order long after me who received their shipment. It seems that Walmart, once again, didn’t care about inventory or fulfilling orders in the order they were received. I originally thought the company was favoring Walmart+ subscribers, but that doesn’t appear to be the case, as some Reddit users have confirmed to me they were Walmart+ subscribers and their orders were also canceled.
Meanwhile, Walmart is letting resellers sell the Hatchin’ Yoshi Toy for triple its normal retail price and has no problems with that. Honestly, the world was a better place when scalpers only paid attention to sneakers. It’s unbelievable that people can’t even get their hands on a children’s toy anymore.
I reached out to Walmart customer service and didn’t get any real answer. Not that I was expecting one. Considering all of that is outsourced these days, and they just follow a click-by-click playbook. But at least it wasn’t AI, since one of the reps sympathized with me, saying the same thing happens to them when it comes to Pokémon cards and it’s equally annoying. Wait a minute… that is what an AI would say to make me think they weren’t AI.
