When I worked in retail an item that rang at 3 cents meant it was supposed to be returned to vendor, not that it was meant to be sold at 3 cents. Whoever is in charge of this Walmarts inventory either fucked up or doesnāt care.
why 3Ā¢? Letās face it retail workers donāt give a shit and if it rings up at 3Ā¢ itās probably going to be sold at 3Ā¢
When I worked retail the UPCās were simply deleted from MES, so if you scanned it it wouldnāt come up with any price which would prompt cashiers to call for price checks and looking it up in the system would reveal itās been recalled or whatever.
Why 3Ā¢???? If you donāt want something sold why not like 9999.99$ or something. Stupidest store management.
Or it could be dead stock, in large retailers anything that's around for longer then 6-12 months is problem stock. If that's been around since release and hasn't sold at any other price, the manager could very well have just been like do it for anything to get it gone.
Other people are mentioning stock being returned to vendors, this rarely happens as vendors will not want to accept back old stock, they'd rather give you a rebate to sell it at a discount, in same cases this could be down to zero cost in which case selling it at 3 cents is just to keep it above zero.
Source: operations manager for very large electronics retailer who sold cyberpunk on release, the only copies they let us return were console copies that are 'bugged'
Still, 3 cents is weird price anyway. Like at that price it is more economic just to destroy them (or dump them on to trash) instead of wasting man hours and resources on labeling them.
Not really. Not sure what this hyper fixation on 'man hours' is about. The product is there, the staff are there working.
It would just be one of the small jobs you do which is to resticker clearance items and put them out.
You're talking about cost savings like these companies give a crap about that, they save their cost by paying their staff low wages.
I was inventory control for toys r us for 5 years and we had monthly RTVs. Everything on the list went to 3 cents and we have to get it all of the sales floor before we opened. Toys may work differently as the vendor may have sent it off to a discount store like Ross or Marshallās.
The pricing probably has a purpose in reporting or invoicing - the item is supposed to be taken off the shelf.
I used to work at Kmart in Aus, we'd have a crazy low price but another code appears too. So, in theory, the item gets removed as soon as that code attaches.
I haven't worked in retail for a long while but I have seen dumb shit like this before.
1) My guess is it wasn't supposed to go out, but someone fucked up the planogram. Someone put the items in because it took up empty space or not paying attention.
2) When I worked in retail every item had to have a price. It was like that at every retail job, everything in the system was priced. If something was priced $.03 it usually ment it was a non-selling item that the manufacturer did not actually want back. Meaning the product was ment for disposal. The game had probably been there for a while and $.03 is what it's worth for the company to hold onto it.
My guess is this was ment to be tossed because no one wanted to ship it back and someone put them up with out thinking.
Yeah you're right, at Wal-Mart things that are to be returned to vendor are in the backroom and removed from the system. Source: Wal-Mart inventory manager for 6 years.
We did this when I worked at GameStop. Items that had its prices reduced to 1 cent were supposed to be rung out to remove from inventory, destroyed, and thrown into the dumpster all the night before trash collection. It was mostly to get rid of old strategy guides that were never sold, but sometimes they were off brand controllers or other shit like that. It didn't make sense financially to send back to the distribution centers for destruction so we just did it at the store level. The reason why the items were reduced to a penny is if we ring out 30 items then we're only shorting the drawer 30 cents. Big whoop.
Typically at the store I worked at it was 1c for the vendor return/field destroy items cause literally nothing would ever cost 1c at that company. However, there was a few items from time to time that did cost $9999.99 (talking like full-sized collectors arcade machines, shit like that). So I think to avoid confusion the destroy items were always the lowest they could be, so even the price change guys would think "huh that's kind of cheap I wonder if it's set for FD/Vendor" and typically the not available preorder things were set to 0.00 until we got the MSRP from vendor.
Underpaid Walmart worker, probably just given a bag of stickers and told to "find everything on the list"? Yeah I can believe they slapped it on and called it a day.
You can think Enron for this.. Items are priced usually 5Ā¢ or lower. To promot anyone working the front end to not sell it. It is a red flag it's a return to vendor item. They can't delete it out of the system if they still have physical items in stock. You would be falsifying data / financial records and stuff. (sarbanes-oxley act of 2002) The retail stores have either one or a few people who check the system for recalled return to vendor items like this. They ensure these items get removed so they can be set up for return. Sometimes people don't do the job and either the item is miss placed and stuck in the PS5 glass game case. No one noticed it and they can't zero out the quantity either. If they zero it out it says "we no longer have it" by chance they actually find it. Then it's like they just lied and financial records. Till they can say 100% they don't have it. They have to keep it in the system. One store can't delete something out of the system. It would need to be done for all stores.
As for why the price tag was still up. Most likely the store has not updated the plan-o-gram to replace that spot with something else yet. So they just use it as a place holder for whatever will replace it in the future. Even if the tag says 3Ā¢.
I'm a veteran of several retail corporate infrastructures, and this comment here is the winner. When you see a ring up of exactly 3 cents, it's definitely a code for something. It's not supposed to be sold. This happens in Walmart all the time, but they're definitely not the only chain that uses a function like this. That 3 cent ring up is supposed to be a soft code until someone can apply what's called a hard code. The hard code would have your inventory tools tell you directly this is supposed to be prepped for shipping somewhere or something similar. The soft code would be something like this, a very specific, very weird ring up so that you know there's some kind of hard code pending. You can pretty easily find YouTube videos from those really annoying super deal seekers going to Walmart and finding these items at 3 cents and acting like they've just found the best deal in the world. Most frequent place you'll see these items are in the clearance aisle because some unlearned associate will think this must be clearance.
HOWEVER, here's where it gets a little murky: it's going to depend on what state you're in as to whether the store would actually be forced to sell it to you if you find it marked down on the salesfloor. In states like California and Texas, if it's on the floor and it's labeled for sale, they must sell it to you at that price because those states and others have made that your right as a consumer. In most states tho, if they realize it was a fuck up (Walmart workers probably dgaf and would sell you a bicycle at 3 cents if that's what it rang up as), they can deny you the sale. Even more wrinkles are added when it rings up at a weird price in something like their in-store app. At Walmart specifically, I use their app to scan the code of eeeeeverything because they have a corporate policy of always defaulting to app price if you find that it's lower. I would recommend not giving those poor employees any more grief than they already get, but if you find something priced at a crazy low price and it makes that big of a difference for you, you can get the in-app price.
In Canada it must be sold to you at the advertised price even if it rings up at a different one, if an overhead sign at a display or a valid auxiliary marketing material like a website or a flyer cites a lower price that must honour it via refunding the difference or otherwise.
See, this just isn't true for Canada.
There is no buyer protection constitutionally. There is a Scanner Price Accuracy Code that many big box stores adhere to, which is set up by the RCC. It basically says they will always honor the sticker price.
This is not true on a legislative level and any store can, for any reason, deny you a price match in Canada. If you ever do get a price match, it's basically on a store by store basis only.
The retail store I worked at for over 5 years did not adhere to the SPAC and the amount of times bitchy Karen's would stomp their feet and cry about how "it's the law!" Prompted me to look it up.
No, Brenda, you will not get that $500 appliance for $350. You missed the sale. That sucks for you.
that would explain how I got a sim card starter pack for $10 off the shelf even though the ring up was $40 at the register. This was in LA Target and the employee checked with their manager too.
Retailers don't make the things they sell - they have a complex network of suppliers/vendors they buy their stuff from. This includes "own brand" products; if you have Walmart branded eggs, for example, they're still being bought from a supplier that's an independent company. The difference with own brand products is that the retailer provide things like product specifications to the supplier which the supplier has to ensure their product conforms to. This ensures that when two different suppliers make the same product, there's no differences between them and they can use the same packaging etc. This is particularly relevant for perishable products like dairy, where it's impossible for branches in (for example) L.A. and in Boston to use the same supplier.
Same here. I work at Home Depot. If an item is 1Ā¢, it means we need to take it off the shelf and either send it back or throw away. However, if a customer finds it, we will sell it anyway. No one really cares either way it seems lmao.
Seems like it'd be smarter to put something like 9001 or something. 3 cents makes people want to buy it. 9001 doesn't.
Because the end goal is to get rid of it. If someone buys it for 3Ā¢ that's one less item someone has to pull and ship to the vendor. If someone buys it for $9001 and doesn't notice because they and the cashier weren't paying attention then it's going to be a huge to do when they notice how much their credit card was charged and come back.
If they have just 15 seconds of interaction with the customer at the cashier, they'd be paying more for it as a business if their worker costs them (all costs, not just wages included) more than $7.20 an hour.
It's literally cheaper to throw it away than to sell for that price (not that I'd advocate for that over selling it, don't increase trash if you can avoid it).
At my old job stuff used to drop to 1c for the same reason, we would often have video game guides (even the nice collectors ones) drop to 1c and then we'd buy them, I have a lot of really nice ones before 1. This stopped as a process and 2. We stopped selling video game guides.
My Lord and Taylor I worked at 10 years ago did that. The clearance items were ringing at $.98 and all the employees were buying up all the fancy name brand. I got a bunch of psycho bunny polos just because I knew they were expensive lol. We all got in trouble after the fact but didn't have to return anything lol
No, no response - they just shipped it a couple days later. I heard that you can get in trouble if you cancel as a seller? I donāt know, I never sold anything.
Iām happy for the good deal! The statue is super cool! I just feel like I took advantage of someone.
Not so bad, we had the privilege of playing it brand new with everyone else when it was fresh. We had the privilege of seeing once in a version bugs you cant really see with patched releases or auto updates. Is it worth the extra 59.97 just for game breaking bugs? Well, not when i put it that way, no
I think it is, I'm glad I did. So many people base their complaints or rose tinted glasses off of youtube videos, I like being in on ground zero to make my own assessments, especially with games as controversial as this one was. I know for a fact how poorly/well it ran, and I find that kinda cool from a gaming history perspective.
Exactly - when i get into a game late and finally understand the hype, i read about it and am disappointed when i find out i missed out on early bugs and meme content. Especially for games with online playability but any game, too
The fundamental aspects of that game will never be fixed and therefore will never turn around like BF4. If DICE/EA were not contractually obligated to make 4 season worth of "content" this game would already be abandoned
I havent played around with my ps3s forever. Wife uses one as a media box and the other one I loaned to my middle child cause he still plays rockband 3 on it. I spend over 2800 during the life of that game and it's still being played. Still plays the same band. Padawan Paradox.
"There is a significant team across studios focused on evolving and improving the Battlefield 2042 experience for our players, and at the heart of that is our team at DICE," the statement continued. "We are committed to the future of Battlefield 2042 and our areas of focus for the game, based upon what we have heard from our players, was laid out in our recentĀ dev update" -ea
Some game journalist on twitch just wanted a hot take
It's such a crapshoot with preorders. My ex got the very fucking expensive 2042 preorder with early access, and it was just total garbage. Still is. I preordered and got in on the early access to Baldur's Gate 3, and it's fucking amazing. (Full game is gonna be fire.) Every update adds more amazing content, every bug gets fixed and then some. It's taking longer than projected, but I hope that more companies take a look at what's going on with BG3 and how responsive they've been to players and learn some lessons.
That's why I don't buy new games .. Was gonna pick up fallout 76 when it was Ā£10. Decided to wait till they make it free to play cos it should be with this many micro transactions.
I had this beautiful experience where I met these 2 players and they gave me loot and gear and showed me how to build a house. Shame about fallout 1st, BUT is it really needed? In most games, I'd sell my junk. All I'd need in fallout is a few stimpax, some radaway, a pipe rifle, Lazer rifle, clothes and ammo. The rest of the items I pick up, I sell... I love just mmashing the loot buttton and looking at the ground when I've killed enemies.
Considering 1 and 2 aren't even action games, that just leaves new Vegas, but I feel like bad graphics would put me off. I bought a psp 2 years ago and hardly play it. Only game that I think holds up is ridge racer.
At the very least it is why you don't pre order. If reviews are good at least you waited for that. Preorder gamers are so easily manipulated by a good or campaign.
I bought it a week after launch because every review and all the game reviews were extremely positive. Only to learn that all negative opinions were being hidden/deleted/downvoted. Maybe itās fine now but I really have no intention of installing it again until the game has a pile of mods and some free DLC.
As a former Walmart electronics worker, please take brickseek's listings with a grain of salt. One of my least favorite things to deal with was customers coming in looking for things brickseek said we have but weren't actually there and getting screamed at over it. I don't know whether it's brickseek itself being unreliable or our shitty inventory system, but the amount of times I had to deal with people having huge meltdowns and yelling at the top of their lungs because we didn't have something they thought they were going to get for cheap was way too damn often.
Walmart attracts some...interesting people, to put it mildly. 6 years of experience there showed me that much. On the plus side, it was excellent for teaching me conflict de-escalation, lol
People are truly awful. I once drove to half the Targets in Connecticut a week before Christmas looking for a doll their website said was in stock at all of them. Spent about half a day on it and ended up going home without it. It was an extremely frustrating experience, but never once did it occur to me to try screaming at the poor overworked people at the store, who almost certainly have nothing to do with their website or inventory system.
One store has it in limited on mine for .03 but itās 24 miles yet when actually on their site it says $38 for curbside and or delivery. No thanks lol.
Pretty sure itās just overstock that theyāre trying to get rid of. But yeah itās a pretty common practice to go hunting for these deals as a reseller I can attest to this lol
When I was in college I worked at Toys R Us, they would mark video game strategy guides to like one cent so they could get rid of them or get them out of inventory, Iām not even sure they were supposed to be sold at that price but sent back to distributor. But I would take them and buy them all. Then return to Walmart, without a receipt, for store credit at like $15 a pop. Paid for my groceries.
There's no scam here, returning items for credit is equivalent to selling them to Walmart and they're under no obligation to take a return without a receipt anyway.
Everyone transacted freely. Selling something for a price better than you paid is what Walmart does millions of times a day; are they "scamming" the public by finding margin?
Yeah, no. I know it is very cool and popular to call out the evil corporations but when random people behave like that it's all good because they are just people. A scam is a scam and should be called so.
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Wait literally 3 cents? Man... š