With no signs of a buyer in sight analysts say Disney will have to wait until next year to find someone interested in purchasing its chain of Disney Stores. Reuters reports that one of the major problems is that Disney has already “sold hundreds of licenses for their famed characters, flooding the market with merchandise. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., for example, is Disney’s biggest customer and sells some of the same goods cheaper than Disney does at its own stores”. Disney representatives won’t discuss specifics, but warned earlier this year that “it could take as long as a year for the auction to run its course”.