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I went to Target yesterday and they had rows of rack packs and a bunch of boxes of Topps Update.  Hadn’t seen any cards in a while.  So I grabbed a rack pack.

I happened to be at Target again today and I thought, hey I’ll get another rack pack.  Unsurprisingly the entire area had been wiped out.  All in one day.  

I am getting quite annoyed at the state of the hobby considering the majority of the time I can’t find any new cards to open.  

The reason I got back into the hobby was because whenever I went to the store with my wife I would never buy anything for myself.  So it became something I was excited about going to the store about so I could get a rack pack once a week or so or splurge on a blaster every now and then.  All these flippers have basically ruined the hobby for me since 99 percent of the time I go look at the card section and there’s nothing there.  

I also used to get a hobby box once a year of either Topps or Hoops for roughly 65 bucks but now you have to take a mortgage out on them which is really silly the prices for some sports cards.  

Is there an end to this or I’m a pretty much just getting forced out of my hobby of buying new cards for fun at the store?

same story here in NJ.   My Target always had sportscards when no one else could find them.    No longer.

Am I lucky to say the Target closest to me always has cards in stock?

I am really hoping that once things normalize that the people that are throwing crazy amounts of money in to the hobby will either get their credit card bills and realize hoarding retail is not a sustainable income option or just move on when they are no longer interested because Gary Vee has moved on to hocking something else. It is good to bring new people in to the hobby but the people that rushed in earlier this year are investors, not collectors. They don't show up here, they don't have blogs and their Twitter feeds are all "Did I do good?" and pictures of a shopping cart full of blasters.

Now that retail packs and blasters are hard to find they have begun wiping out Pokemon. What is next?

Nothing in my town but Gallery and Heritage.

I went in the local Target today and actually found some baseball cards. Appears they have moved to an end cap along the back wall in the toy section. Found some two-pack (16 cards per pack) 2020 Topps Update rack packs. Only bought one because of the exclusive red parallel card was for my Tigers PC.

I must have been looking in the wrong section for months. 

I'm crossing my fingers that the big 3 all have horrible draft classes. This year was stacked and everybody was hunting trophy's and killed it for collectors like us who do it for the enjoyment.

I travel for a living so  I get lucky walking into stores at the right time. I budget myself but it's hard knowing that someone is going to walk in behind me and wipe it out. 
 

it just makes me appreciate this site even more.  
 

The Walmart near is all out of sports trading cards same with Target. Just nothing but Pokémon and Magic The Gathering.

Its gotton so bad that a kid stole a box of Pokemon from a ve der at the local flea market last week someone tried to steal the same box the lady was fighting with the kid who tried to steal jt