{"id":867568,"date":"2025-08-24T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/24\/pokemon-sports-trading-cards-have-leveled-up-from-nostalgia-to-retail-gold\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T00:12:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T05:12:00","slug":"pokemon-sports-trading-cards-have-leveled-up-from-nostalgia-to-retail-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/24\/pokemon-sports-trading-cards-have-leveled-up-from-nostalgia-to-retail-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon, sports trading cards have leveled up from nostalgia  to retail gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pok\u00e9mon packs and sports cards aren&#8217;t just for kids and collectors anymore \u2014 they&#8217;re fueling a retail boom.Why it matters: Trading cards are billion-dollar businesses for mass retailers like Target.The big picture: Nearly 1 in 5 adults reported buying Pok\u00e9mon cards for themselves, though only a quarter actually play the game \u2014 most are collecting or investing&#8230; Kelly Tyko <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/08\/23\/pokemon-card-trading-cards-boom-target-ebay-sales\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pok\u00e9mon packs and sports cards aren&#8217;t just for kids and collectors anymore \u2014 they&#8217;re fueling a retail boom.Why it matters: Trading cards are billion-dollar businesses for mass retailers like Target.The big picture: Nearly 1 in 5 adults reported buying Pok\u00e9mon cards for themselves, though only a quarter actually play the game \u2014 most are collecting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":867569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22200,192],"tags":[5670,6810],"class_list":{"0":"post-867568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pokemon","8":"category-sports","9":"tag-pokemon","10":"tag-sports"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}