buying cards in stores

I’m returning to collecting and I’m waiting for shining fate like everyone else. I was just wondering if the Feb. 19 date applies to stores like target as well or is it out in store a little late or early?

Feb 19 should be the street date, so it should be hitting shelves everywhere that sells them that date. But plenty of stores, Wal-Marts especially in my experience, will break the street date by a day or so with some releases so I’d start looking around the day before. Nowadays though its really going to be a right-place right-time game to even get product at retail in a lot of places. Dudes will be stalking those vendors and shelves to clear it out the minute it crops up. I get the hustle, but man I miss being able to walk into a store and find Pokemon cards easily. Hope Pokemon can step up printing volume to get us back to that some day

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