I totally agrea, I've seen them more at Wal Mart, only once at a Target. I thought it was a 'Variant" at first but then relized that its totally the wrong package for the figure. I didn;t think that some poor starving Chinise Laborer would be doing this.

I have seen several of the comic packs switched around. I find it funny when I think of what a pain in the butt it is to open them delicately as a collector and I still tear edges and these guys do a pretty good job and even replace everything to look almost new.

I miss the days where if someone stole something there would atleast be an empty package... not trying to trick you into thinking you found the guy you wanted only to find a switch a roe took place.

I totally agrea with the comments about the staff not giving a rats a$$. But if it was a $50 Digital Camera being returned for a $250 one, I bet they would look closer...

Funny story, back when I worked loss prevention for Sears, I got a call about a funny return with an irate customer. I go down to the sales floor and see associates gathered around this box for a Speaker Reciever for souround sound that had been returned. inside was a neatly repackaged cheapo VCR. The customer had bought this off the sales floor and taken it home and discovered the "mix up" and brought it back (did I mention he was pi$$ed off). After some investigation we figured out this was an associate theft. It was tense with a big ticket item but shows how clever people can be...

Now back to joes... Retailers just need to have staff look closer... Or toy dept manager... this is costing them $$MONEY$$ wich will cost us money... Joes are expensive enough.