I worked fpr Walmart 10 years ago, well after this image was taken, but, with the spider wrap we only really put it on items that were above a certain price point.
Security is ridiculous now though. I was at Walmart, don’t care, in the clearance section and got some Better Home and Garden, Walmart only brand, cups. They were originally about $3, got them for $1. They had this security sticker on the inside. All i could think is your a multi-billion dollar company, if someone is straling a $3 cup just let them have it. They clearly need it more than you need $3.
blockbuster was selling dreamcasts for 19.99 after they were discontinued…
Nobody wanted a gamecube… hence why they were so cheap.
Eh, a bit of an exaggeration. I think they were just old inventory and undesired at the time, hence the price and lack of security measures
I actually remember around 07 there being a big display of PS3s at BestBuy you could just grab the box.
That said they may have been empty displays but my memory tells me they had some weight to them.
I used to spend a lot of time at Bestbuy playing Guitar Hero with randos :)
I can’t really remember because it was ages ago but I think we actually got a load of empty boxes from the warehouse specifically for display, they weren’t just boxes that had the consoles removed they were display boxes. They didn’t have a barcode on them.
This would have been for the Xbox 360 and PS3.
I remember doing that with a couple of “big” things in the 2000s. Bring the box to the counter and they swap it for a real one. A console was probably one of them, I can’t remember what the others might have been
Yeah, at least where I lived, everything was in constant supply and nobody had issues with sold out stock/scalpers until the Wii came out.
This is my memory as well.
The only time there were shortages of anything was during black friday (which people went feral for) or maybe for one or two days during the debut of a super famous highly anticipated product (like, the next iPhone, that level of famous).
The only things that were scalped for months on end like they are now were concert tickets.
I’m pretty sure that when I bought my Wii it was just on the shelf as well, granted this was less than a year after it came out (so ancient history at this point) and my memory could be incorrect.
thought this was going to be about the gamecube… nope, just another complaint about America
It’s both, learn to read
Well… Since America totally sucks, there is a lot to complain about.
Yup. America used to be a land where most people were financially stable
And then all those Europeans came
The US had a homeless problem since way before the gamecube came out.
Yes and, it didn’t used to exist on this scale
I was a little miffed when I finally convinced my parents to get me a used GameCube for $100, only for the retail price to drop to $100 a couple months later.
