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That matches how these buildings actually work. Walmart and Target both take freight most days of the week now, and a card case gets worked whenever it surfaces in the flow rather than on a standing card day. Chain-wide, there is no weekday to find at those two, and the only fixed dates left are release dates — those are on the calendar to your right.

But a second report from the same group says something narrower, and the two don't actually contradict each other:

"No chain-wide day" and "these two specific stores stock Thursday" are both easy to be true at once — freight cadence is set per building, so an individual store can run a stable Thursday rhythm inside a chain that has no policy at all. That is the single most testable claim anyone has handed us, and it's already loaded as tips on the candidate stores. It's ambiguous whether he means the Walmarts or the Targets at those two intersections, so both are tagged; a few Thursday logs settle it.

He also gives away the thing a heatmap can't see: Target draws lines and Walmart doesn't. If people queue at Target, being second in line is the same as being empty-handed, and a Target run is really a question of how early you're willing to stand there. Walmart's small lines mean a normal early-morning visit still works.

Friday is now the strongest claim on the board

Three East End Targets — St. Matthews, Springhurst, and Middletown — plus Jeffersontown are all reported to run Friday, and the two dated sightings in the log so far (Springhurst, 4 April 2025; Jefferson Pavilion, 3 April 2026) were both Fridays too. That's four store reports and two logged data points pointing the same direction, against one chain-level claim that there's no pattern at all. The honest reading is that "no set days" is probably true of Walmart, and probably wrong about Target in this market.

It also comes with a route, which is the most valuable thing anyone has said so far:

The 7am and 8am opening times are real — Target's own store pages confirm St. Matthews at 7am and Middletown at 8am, and every store in this app now shows its opening time on the run so you can build a ladder like this yourself. That hour of daylight between St. Matthews and Springhurst is the whole trick: it's the only pair in the city where you can be first in line at one store and still be first in line at the next. It's loaded as the Friday ladder route on the Run tab.

So: at Walmart you're hunting a time of day and a store rather than a weekday — that's a pattern the heatmap finds and a schedule can't. At Target, Best Buy, Dollar General and Five Below a real weekday looks like it still exists. Friday at the East End Targets, Monday at Best Buy, and Thursday on Outer Loop and Bashford Manor are the three hypotheses to go kill or confirm, in that order.

What's still worth asking: "what days do you get trucks?" and "who puts the card pegs out?", asked of a stocker rather than a manager. Even in a random-day world, the person who works the pegs knows their own shift. Post whatever they tell you as a tip so it doesn't live only in your head.

Street dates

Target enforces them hard — product sits in the back until the date, and asking early gets you nowhere. Walmart is looser, and early puts genuinely happen, which is why a Walmart sweep the two days before a release is worth more than the same sweep at Target.

Empty pegs aren't an answer

More Louisville-area stores moved sealed product behind the checklane or into a locked case through 2026. Bare hooks increasingly mean "ask", not "gone". Log those as Locked and the store's standing stops lying to you.

The apps

Target's app gives you an aisle location and a store-level in-stock flag; the counts are unreliable but a jump from zero to anything is a real signal. Walmart's "check in-store availability" gives you an aisle too. Neither sees what's still on a pallet in the back, which is the whole game.

Vendor-serviced racks

Kroger, Walgreens and CVS card racks are stocked by a third-party rep on a weekly route, not by store staff on truck day. That's a different schedule entirely, and it's the one most people never think to ask about.