Does WalMart Still Sell Sports Cards?

[T.S. OConnell]

I like to buy a blaster box or two of most of the Topps Heritage baseball releases, and later give the cards away to kids in bricks for Christmas stockings. I can't find any sports cards at all at WalMart or Target. Did the large retail stores get out of the sports card retailing gig?

[quinnsryche]

They still sell them but good luck getting them. Local dealers and guys who set up at shows know EXACTLY when they are putting them out and buy them up the instant they are on the shelves. I have seen these guys lined up like jackals waiting for the blasters. My son heard Walmart was considering putting a limit on the number of boxes one person can buy but have not seen this take effect as of yet. That said, forget about EVER buying another blaster box at Walmart!

[T.S. OConnell]

Thanks for that, but at the WalMart and Target near me, there's no indication that there have been any boxes from any sport on the shelves for several months. I guess I'll have to go online, which I hate to do.

[sthoemke]

WalMart has no card sections here.

Targets here have been getting Topps 2021 Baseball, Garbage Pail Kids Food Fight and Magic. Not much else.

[steve B]

The Wal-Mart near me has a card section, but it's mostly empty boxes.

The Target used to have a good selection, but reduced it a couple years ago.
This year they were selling so much they actually had Topps team sets - from 2016. My guess is that Topps doesn't have anything in the back corners of the warehouse anymore.

[slidekellyslide]

So far this year I have seen 2021 Topps baseball at Scheels Sporting Goods, Barnes & Noble, and even Cracker Barrel restaurants. Check those places out. The flippers haven't discovered them yet.