While I am sure most professional comic stores will be able to resist making an early sale for two weeks, the combination of an extra week to hold comics back, with no DC Comics at all scheduled to go on sale next Wednesday, might strain the usual reticence to break street date.
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street date Archives
Basically, the big chain stores make them too much money to say anything about breaking street date, while a small business was another story Pokémon would get wise and let stores that had gaming for their product sell a week early to get around that issue, and then Wizards of the Coast would finally follow.
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