Things get stuck in a box in the back of stores for a while sometimes. Suddenly, they decide to put it out. Or they actually purchase it on the cheap and try to sell it at a higher price. I have actually watched managers from stores out here taking advantage of sales in other stores and buying up everything and then it appears on their shelves a week or two later.
Eh, I'd be curious if the other stickers are just as old. The circus one looks older due to the logo.
It's not so much lost, but dead stock..
ETA: I'm totally right. That circus one is older
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Well. For a lot of stores that carry AG product, AG owns them-- this wouldn't apply. They rent the space from the store to sell their product -- and the store gets a percentage of the sales. (At least in the main stores.) I always forgot if that applied to things other than cards, but Aurora's comment makes me think that.
I think that they might sell their old stock to other places.. but if this is at grocery stores / drug stores / target / and walmart... then pretty sure that isn't the case.
I wonder if this is happening to multiple old sticker packs then, not just the 3.5s we've been finding recently. I wonder if this is AG grabbing at their old stock to get rid of it- it seems plausible.
Usually people have been finding them at bargain shops. It can be that AG is selling old stock elsewhere, even at Targets and Walmarts. I guess they'll sell it to whoever's taking it, as long as they're making a profit selling old merch, then AG would be fine with it, right?
I should try to email them to see if that's the case, if I get a response at all.