My local supermarket has discontinued the PS Vita

[Adinnieken]

PullusPardus said:

Adinnieken said:

PullusPardus said:
they cant "Refuse" to sell something, it probably just went out of stock , since sony themselves didn't care to make as many, or they didn't ship.
the last time a store tried "refusing" to sell something, it went bankrupt (it was GAME i think?)

Sure they can.  Obviously you have no idea how stores operate.  A store has only so much square footage (square meters/metres) of retail space, therefore they only provide shelf/peg space for products they believe will sell well or they known they can sell.

If a product doesn't sell they can easily either return the merchandise to the vender (consignment) or clearance and discount it.

but they can't "Refuse" to sell it, as if , its not available, as if discontinue it without clearance.

As I implied, I believe gaming consoles and handhelds are technically sold on consignment.  The retailers don't actually own the merchandise, Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft do.  But the retailers stock and inventory the merchandise and when it's sold, they get a cut of the profit.

But also as I said, if ASDA is pulling inventory and reallocating it to it's online web store, then it could pull the merchandise without any clearance or discount sales.  The merchandise would be transfered from the store inventory to the web store inventory as an online only purchase.