Panini heard your issue about not having sports cards available to your kids due to empty store shelves and high shop prices. At today's Becket Industry Summit, the company unveiled an awesome new product for a solution.
When you bring your kids into a Walmart or Target, the disappointed look on their face when seeing empty shelves is tough to swallow. Seeing price tags on local card shops is an even tougher situation; $200 for a "low-end" box is hard to pay to get kids into the hobby. Panini has seen the issue and revealed a great solution during today's Becket Industry Summit: The Kid's Create.
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WHAT:
- A "crate" of multi-sport Panini products from both Retail and Hobby. Each crate would have a Blaster, Hanger, and Mega box, as well as swag such as Panini pends, notebook and hat.
- Guaranteed in the create would be memorabilia cards, autos, parallels and inserts.
- Crate products change and evolve with release and sports.
- First box hypothetically would have (1) 2021 Contenders Draft College Football blaster, (1) Donruss RC blaster, new 2021 MLB product, 2021-22 NBA, hat, pends, notebook, and card protection.
COST:
- Up to your local card shop based on the wholesale cost purchased from Panini BUT after a sneak peak at the target price, we think you'll be super pleased.
RULES:
- Kids 14 and under may buy the Crate. This whole product is geared towards having product to allow kids to get back into a hobby that has outpriced the youth.
WHERE TO BUY:
- Your local card shop, if they are a direct partner/customer of Panini. The crate will NOT be available in retail stores; this will help prevent adult collectors hoarding all of the product.
WHEN:
Kudos to Panini for this incredible product idea. Think back to when you started collecting - you bought wax packs in a shop, gas station, or box store any time you could. Reading the back of cards, pre-Internet, to get stats. Looking at the new, glossy cards in foil packs of the 90's. Without those early days of available and affordable product, you wouldn't be in the game now. As a community, we need to we'll need kids to keep our passion growing; can't wait to see Panini do just that.
