Exclusive: Target PS5 restock scheduled for Thursday – what time and how to get
Thursday update: The Target PS5 restock is scheduled for this morning, Thursday, March 11, according to internal communications from multiple employees, and TechRadar can confirm that stores are brimming with PS5 Disc stock in inventory.
“We have 40 of PS5 in back”, a Target employee who wishes to remain anonymous told TechRadar on Wednesday night, hours before the scheduled console drop. Stressing that stores will vary, he noted, “But we only have two PS5 Disk and two Xbox Series X on hand.”
This backs up our earlier reporting, starting on Sunday, that detailed the fact that Target stores were amassing PS5 and Xbox consoles to go live sometime this week. The new information – critical to finding these hard-to-buy consoles that sell out in minutes – was first dug up by YouTuber Jake Randall, who specializes in PS5 and Xbox Series X restock videos and live streams. So far he’s been ironclad with inside information from top retailers in the US.
When is the Target PS5 restock?
When is Target PS5 restock? We know the scheduled date, but Target’s restock time is never part of the communications. In fact, someone at the online store set one of the ‘Ship it’ buttons live on Tuesday morning, fooling everyone into thinking that the console was in stock – no one actually bought it two days ago.
Two weeks ago – a Thursday morning very much like today – the Target PS5 restock happened in the morning at exactly 7:47am EST. And that’s the same across all regions on the US, so the time was 6:47am CST / 5:47am MST / 4:47 PST. That doesn’t mean it’ll be this same time on Thursday, however. It could be earlier or later. There’s also an outside chance that Target reschedules this if stores haven’t met inventory goals. That’s rare.
Important to know: Sometimes one console will goes live before the other, as Target staggers the rollout by 15 to 30 minutes.
Our alert will look like this (from two weeks ago):
🚨🚨🚨PS5 restock! 🎯 TARGET 🎯 in the US has it right now.♻️RT this + follow @mattswider + @techradar for instant Xbox & PlayStation 5 updatesPS5 Digital ($399) https://t.co/0gwPSeb5K7PS5 Disc ($499) https://t.co/Su99c2dOCs👇March 9, 2021
TechRadar confirmed that Target employees have been preparing for a PS5 restock for this week. We know Xbox Series X restock was also being prepped for the same online-only ordering process, employees tell us, though inventory for that console and the PS5 Digital Edition is lower than PS5 Disc in some stores.
This isn’t the time Target employees demystified the PS5 restock date and inventory situation for us. We got an update from several stores from both the workforce and eagle-eyed customers.
“We have roughly 8 Xbox consoles and 22 PS5 consoles,” we were told on Sunday in a direct message on Twitter by another Target employee who wishes to remain anonymous. Again, across three Target stores, employees told us that there are many more PS5 Disc Editions – and very few to zero PS5 Digital Editions for the impending Target restock.
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