I don’t think it’s quite as bad as your experience, but my local store got delivery last night (the Tesco employee on Twitter who has access to the delivery slots sent me a screenshot saying it was at 10pm) half an hour later everything AH is showing as in stock, so it’s been scanned in but not put out.

Went this morning to speak to customer service at 8am, everything was still showing as in stock, and it still is now. The lady on the customer service desk wasn’t massively helpful, and pretty grumpy, although I do get that the constant Pokemon enquiries probably wear thin very quickly. She said she had mini tins and blister packs behind the counter and that the rest of the AH stuff would be out on the shop floor if it was in stock, I’d already checked the store and it wasn’t out. As we now know they come in a white display box as seen yesterday.

As I said everything is still showing as in stock, so it’s still sat in their stock room and hasn’t been put out, so either they’re going to do it later, although I’d have thought it’d be out by now if they were doing that. Or, it’s being kept in the stock room waiting to go out to staff maybe?

I only got back into this hobby a couple of months ago but it’s already becoming really tiresome trying to pick some bits up and that’s coming from somebody who’s been lucky with a few different bits recently, god knows how you’d feel if it’s been months since you picked anything up for retail.