MrBeast spent 15 hours making Walmart and Target stores restock his chocolate bars
As well as raking it in with his charity stunts, James «MrBeast» Donaldson has been dabbling in the confectionary game with his Feastables brand. Apparently his chocolate bars, which include a peanut butter bar called Deez Nuts (sigh), are pretty popular, though the same could be said for his burgers, which MrBeast says are so «raw» and «inedible» that he sued his partner Virtual Dining Concepts.
I cannot speak to the quality of his chocolate, though it strikes me that it's harder to mess up candy than it is beef. Even bad chocolate tastes pretty good, and it looks like a lot of his 240 million fans are more than happy to take a punt on Feastables, because they've been flying off the shelves—at least according to MrBeast and his acolytes, who have been struggling to find them stocked in Walmarts, as reported by Kotaku.
On February 19, MrBeast responded to a parent who had failed to procure MrBeast Bars for their now furious kids. «I went to 3 Walmarts and they are all gone,» they told him. «Now my kids r mad at me lol.» Because the charitable YouTuber cares about the kids, and promised he was «doing everything I can to restock stores» in an effort to maintain their sugar levels.
A day later, on February 20, he returned with an update.
I spent 15 hours yesterday visiting Walmarts/Targets and seeing if they had inventory in the back and helping them put it out. This store was doing 0 sales and when I visited it had 0 product on shelf. I found these in the backroom and had them scan them in/I placed them on the… pic.twitter.com/byfd4MTy8aFebruary 20, 2024
«I spent 15 hours yesterday visiting Walmarts/Targets and seeing if they had inventory in the back and helping them put it out,» he tweeted, accompanied by a photo of boxes filled with MrBeast Bars.
He alleges that the shop in which he took the photo was doing «zero sales» and had none of his bars on its shelves. Thus he entered the stockroom, found the bars, got the employees to scan them, and then got them put
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