NEW YORK (WKOW)–An unstable economy is not just affecting how much people are spending on holiday presents this year, it could be impacting what presents are available.
Some stores are scaling back their toy orders causing a shortage in this years “hot toys.” Many retailers, afraid they’d see a repeat of last years dismal sales because of the recession, cut back on inventory, causing a ripple effect.
Those much sought after hot items will be few and far between. “Normally around December 1st, you see 10 to 15 toys that are in short supply.
This year about 50 toys are in short supply,” Jim Silver of timetoplaymag.com said. The Nerf-n-Strike is hard to find and when you do, like many toys we tracked down, be ready to either pay big, wait or scale back. At one website, it was priced at about $72. It’s much cheaper at toysrus.com, but there’s a purchase limit.
Then you have Zhu Zhu Pets, interactive mechanical hamsters. You won’t find them online at Toys-R-Us. The fury creature costs about $10, but someone on Amazon.com hopes to get more than four times that.
With Mindflex, your own brain waves control a ball through a maze. Online it’s going for about $145. At K-Mart, it’s a whole lot cheaper. via Toy shortage – WKOW 27: Madison, WI Breaking News, Weather and Sports.
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While we have not found a Zhu Zhu Pets hamster offered at K-Mart (as they are out of stock as well as Wal-Mart, Toys R Us, and Sears, we do have the ones from Amazon and will update you if the price decreases. Just subscribe to the RSS feed above. Go to our Zhu Zhu Store here.
