Retail

Where it was sold

Retail

How we know: inferred from the parallel's name.

Applies to

the full 100-card base set of 2020-21 Absolute Memorabilia

Notes

Base-set parallel. tcdb catalogues "Retail" as one of the nine base parallel sets (sid 282175) and describes it "Same front photos and backs as the Hobby version, but with white borders" (https://www.tcdb.com/Inserts.cfm/sid/257946/2020-21-Panini-Absolute-Memorabilia). NAME DISAGREEMENT, NOT RESOLVED: cardboardconnection lists the same slot in the base parallel ladder as "Dollar Tree" - "PARALLEL CARDS: Dollar Tree, Red #/199, Blue #/99, Orange #/75, Teal #/49, Purple #/25, Gold #/10, Green #/5, Black 1/1." (https://www.cardboardconnection.com/2020-21-panini-absolute-memorabilia-basketball-cards) - i.e. it names a specific retail chain where tcdb names the trade channel. tcdb's "Retail" is written because tcdb catalogues it as an actual set with an sid; the Dollar Tree naming is recorded in gaps G-003 and nothing is written to channel_sku, because "Dollar Tree" is a retailer, not a box type. UNNUMBERED IS INDIRECT: tcdb annotates every other base parallel "Serial numbered to N." and annotates this one with a visual description instead, and cardboardconnection gives it no "#/" figure where it gives one to all eight others. That is good indirect evidence, not a source stating it; parallels.csv has no basis column, so the basis is recorded in gaps G-001.