I don't know about others but I think we've discussed how some of us actually clean up the toy aisle... I know we've talked about that before. I did it tonight at Target. It's sad, but I like the SW area to look nice. OCD I guess.
I here ya Jesse. I do the same thing. Even if I find nothing new for me, I still like to clean up the Star Wars section at least. I feel that if that section looks nice, then people "may" be more apt to buying from it. That had a positive effect by getting some of those darn pegwarmers out of the store.
Strangely enough I've actually been reprimanded once for doing this. A manager came by and aasked what I was doing. I said something to the affect of "Oh, just trying to keep the aisle clean." He said something to the affect of "Well we have people to do that." Then he asked why I put the figures near the bottom pegs and ganged them up on as few pegs as possible. It was a simple reason. One, kids can actually reach the figures and might be able to more readily find the figures they want. Also, it gives indication to store employees to stock the pegs. Now he understood the first part but got a little upset at the second part. He said that there are times when they just don't have figures to fill the pegs and that's why they leave them one or two to a peg.
I feel that that kind of looks cheap or that someone didn't feel like stocking. But I won't vocalize that to them, less they start calling me one of "those" collectors...
We have to be careful when dealing with store employees. Even if you've been one of the "good guys" for years, which is what I'm known as at one of my local Wal*Marts, it only takes one negative incident to tarnish what you may have worked years to build up a good rapport with.
As to the Vintage wave, I'm not going to be in a rush to get all of these figs. Just Snowtroopers. Even then, I'm only going to get 11 of them and stop (keeping one carded). The rest I'll get two of (one loose/one carded), but I'll prolly wait for clearances on these, unless they start to becomne HTF. Taking history into account though, that's doubtful.