A CTC store I visited this week sells hempers (SIC) of licenced products. I’d love the Australian licence holders to ensure they are genuine licences for if they are, the licence owners may want to see how their licences are represented. A couple of the licenced characters looked off to me, like a cheap copy, but that could be my eyesight.
Licences are expensive to obtain, making licenced products sold in-store more expensive than similar unlicensed product. This is why suspicions can be raised when you see cheaper than expected licenced product.
Lovers of a licence deserve to be provided an authorised licenced product and not a knock-off. Any retailer of genuine licenced product would be interested in cheap off looking product.
CTC is on my radar as they are cigarette shops using kid-targeted plush and other items to attract shoppers. I am surprised landlords who claim to be focused on family shoppers welcome them to their centres.
The landlord at Robina Town Centre clearly doesn’t known/care that tenants they are allowing into their centre are selling bootleg product. I know of several tenants who have been at that centre (and may still be there) that sell bootleg LEGO minifigures and products (including minifigures and products that represent high-value licenses like DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Star Wars, Disney and others)
For the landlords, they dont care because there are no negative concequences for not caring but if they do care they get less tenants and less rent (even casual or short term leases are important)
It doesn’t help that companies like Warner Bros/DC Comics, Disney/Marvel/Lucas and others dont seem to put all that much effort into stopping the bootlegs.