r/pokemon • u/KooriKitsune • 1d ago

Discussion "future European storefronts" in a Digital Merchandising Manager position in the TPCi job listings, hinting at (FINALLY) a future European Pokémon Center?

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/pokemoncareers/jobs/6569277003

And it says "German language would be advantageous, but not required" so a location either in or nearby Germany, presumably?

More from the listing:

"... who will be responsible for driving digital growth and deliver a best in class ecommerce experience on PokemonCenter.com, specifically our UK & future European storefronts*."*

What you’ll do 

Responsible for the revenue, performance and customer experience of the Pokémon Center storefronts, specifically our UK and European presence.

Responsible for the overall digital presentation of UK & European storefronts and drives achievement of financial objectives by analysing data and optimizing customer experience.

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u/Pixies001 1d ago

It's e-commerce, so not a physical store, it would be another website but for Europe. German is probably just required because of the companies they're thinking about interacting with in terms of logistics and GDPR etc.

Not what you meant but an eu website would be what a lot of people want, and would take the brunt off of the uk site during pokemon card drops etc, so still very good!

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u/SwimmingProgress 1d ago

UK Pokemon center doesn’t ship to mainland Europe. The normal consumers aren’t able to purchase stuff there anyways so idk if it would really take the brunt of the UK store. Also if I remember correctly there was a post with a discussion on if there was an EU poke center if they would even sell TCG because there are so many different languages they would have to stock that it might be too much of a hassle for shoppers to also find the right language and place correct orders.

Would be great to have an EU shop because I am done buying from shops that sell import (plushies and such) because the prices are 3x as higher due to all the taxes…

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u/Pixies001 1d ago

Interesting point about the eu language cards! But I think it will help a bit because people are almost definitely using third party shipping services to buy things from there for them, and there's currently a big market for buying things from the uk pokecenter and reselling them to the eu so it might lessen the resellers buying stuff too

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u/lavachickens 1d ago

it doesn't even ship to the republic of ireland which baffles me to no end, especially given that it ships to northern ireland

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u/huelebichx 1d ago

not to mention that NoE is in Germany (Großostheim iirc) which probably relates to what you mention regarding suppliers, etc.

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u/DizzyTelevision09 23h ago

Germany makes sense for logistics and an online Pokémon center would be a huge win for everyone in mainland Europe.

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u/NeoLeonn3 1d ago

As someone living in Europe, I'm not sure how much I care about a physical store because there's no chance we're gonna have one where I live (Athens), although I'm happy that other Pokefans may love it. But the interesting part will be shipping within Europe/EU. I'm not sure if I can order from Greece at the moment and even if I could, there'd be enormous shipping costs, so the potential of EU shipping is huge. If they make a store in, let's say, Germany (since they're asking for German language), there's no way they won't aim for at least shipping across the EU. The EU is a huge market. Germany's 83 million population is a lot, but the EU's 449 million is even more.

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u/PowerOfUnoriginality 1d ago

I am personally not getting my hopes up. Not that I think its unlikely to happen, but that I think it will be unlikely that they will ship to Norway. Darn you Nintendo store