Hi
Last night I went to our two local Targets and neither of them had anything. I asked around and finally got an answer. Our two stores recently decided to add a large food area. Not prepared food but grocery items such as milk, vegetables etc..... With having to fit this in a lot of other departments needed to be thinned out. The toy department lost up to 25% of it space. Now I guess what I was upset about is that it looks like the Lego area got bigger but at the expense of Playmobil. I really hope I am wrong and the Playmobil has yet to get to our stores but I really do not see any room for it 
Rasputin "The Mad Monk"
That's interesting Ras and Richard. Having worked in the Dry Grocery department at Wal*Mart, I can see how much more work it is dealing with fresh produce (and also chilled and frozen foods). Are they competing with other chains nearby, and is this a good idea? It could spark a price war on fresh produce, and they could end up losing.
In Springfield/Eugene we have two Targets and three Wal*Marts, the Wal*Mart I work in being a Superstore (huge and open 24 hours), and also across the road from one of the Target stores, so that's the Target I usually go to. Tim found these sets in the other Target in Springfield, which looks about the same size to me, but also acts as a anchor store for the Gateway Mall.
I wonder if the Springfield Wal*Mart will be carrying Playmobil and the Eugene one not? I've seen no evidence of the food area expanding, and as you say, it looks like Playmobil just lost its shelf space to Lego. In Tim's store Lego took up a whole aisle, and Playmobil had been moved to the next ailse along. If Tim hadn't already told me it was there, I'd have left the store without seeing it.
