One thing I just wanted to add ...
The closest LCS to me is about 40 minutes away.
I watch my daughter during the day and I work nights, so Target, Walmart, etc., on my 'lunch hour' — when most people are sleeping — are my only option for cards most of the time.
I pulled a Bryce Harper auto refractor out of a Bowman Chrome blaster a couple of months ago and was overjoyed beyond belief.
I'm 36 ... but I sure as hell felt like a kid when I pulled it!
I, for one, am very happy that these companies have started to pump up retail hits in the last few years.
Remember circa 2004-2005-2006, when a product like Fleer Sweet Sigs basketball blasters advertised all the great auto-jersey cards you could pull, like Dwyane Wade?
Yeah, right ... not a chance!
You'd open blaster after blaster and get nothing but base cards, knowing that that profit went straight back to the card companies so they could afford more big hits for their hobby stuff.
I, for one, prefer the new era of retail.