Incentives. For the past couple of decades the deal has been "mom and pop have it all figured out, so get out of the way and we'll buy you off with some cheap t

Incentives. For the past couple of decades the deal has been "mom and pop have it all figured out, so get out of the way and we'll buy you off with some cheap toys". So yeah, we have a generation that knows how to throw a perfect tantrum to get their next Lego set and expects the store to somehow never run out of them.