Adults cannot purchase specific Pokemon card packs since they are exclusively available to schoolchildren in a Japanese card shop.
The Pokemon Company International responded on April 19 to a Texas store’s theft of hundreds of cards from the Sword & Shield Fusion Strike expansion. The business asserted that the robbery had compromised the “integrity” of the expensive cards. But thieves have also wreaked havoc on card businesses in Japan and the United States. In a series of robberies in Japan in January 2023, “tens of millions of yen” worth of Pokemon cards were taken. A well-known Japanese game store has prohibited adults from buying specific Pokemon cards.
Adults are not allowed in one portion of the Pokemon cards in a Japanese store
Tokyo’s Akihabara neighborhood’s Hareruya 2 has announced it will dedicate a store portion to junior high school children and younger. The store declared on Twitter that it would only sell 10 Snow Hazard and Clay Burst packs per customer every day. It would also begin verifying identity to ensure the buyer was of legal age. Hareruya 2 would keep selling the packets on the first floor each day until they were all gone. The new law would also prohibit guardians and parents from buying Pokemon cards for their kids.
TheHiddenLettuce, a Twitter user, thought the restriction on Hareruya 2 was acceptable. It would not prevent parents from paying their kids to buy Pokemon cards for them. Store manager Sho Watanabe provided an explanation for the choice in an interview with the Japanese news outlet Livedoor. According to Watanabe, people who are active late at night or early in the morning always seem to buy cards. “Many shops exhaust their entire stock of Pokemon cards as soon as they go on sale,” he said.
“Shops can continue to sell the cards to students and small children by designating half of our stock for general clients. Children and their parents are pleased when goods are sold to them. When the supply of the items is so limited, this sales method enables us to satisfy the most significant number of customers. Would you give a youngster money to buy you Pokemon cards? It might depend on how rare the TCG pack is.
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