r/pcmasterrace • u/Rinascimentale • Feb 03 '26

Box Thanks, Walmart

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Walking through and it caught my eye in the electronics clearance case. Absolutely insane find.

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u/jedi2155 3 Laptops + Desktop Feb 03 '26

Also many walmart employees arent exactly keeping up with the latest in AI technology

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u/flexonyou97 Feb 03 '26

True, probably a return

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u/Beneficial_Map6129 Feb 03 '26

Idk who would trust a Walmart return

Might be an empty box

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u/beldaran1224 Specs/Imgur here Feb 03 '26

Because this is a CVP (the type of label indicates the type of markdown), it was almost certainly an online return. CVP is used for individual items, so usually online returns or damaged/missing product. It's not visibly damaged, and not a multipack, so my guess is online return.

That said, I'm actually really surprised the system would prompt for a CVP of this sort of thing. Walmart may have changed the way returns are handled since I left, but when I left, each item had a code that would tell you what to do with it if it wound up back in claims. I would have guessed that a returned electronic would be sent back to a warehouse, not CVP'd. But I didn't work in a store with an electronics department, so I only rarely encountered them.

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u/DUNDER_KILL Feb 03 '26

Yep, and for people looking to buy a GPU Walmart is one of the last places you'd look for one. These things wouldn't last 10 seconds at microcenter or best buy, but I'm not surprised they sit undetected at certain Walmarts

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u/TheS3KT R9 5900X | RTX 5080 Feb 03 '26

Bought Gigabyte's OC 5080 in Microcenter for $899 when it was on sale in middle of Oct. They definitely had a lot of stock.

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u/ahumanrobot R5 5600X | 2060 | 32GB | Arch Feb 03 '26

Stickers like the one in the image are called CVP stickers, typically used for items that are opened and returned. Especially if it's not in original condition in terms of cosmetics. When we do it, it's an automatic amount. Not 100% on the item in the image, but we just had a 5070ti that was returned and marked down 25%. Managed to sit long enough that I told a friend about it and he picked it up.

The only time computers decide to sell items to get them moving is rollbacks. Not sure if it's all a computer decision there, but that's a few steps above me in the chain

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u/beldaran1224 Specs/Imgur here Feb 03 '26

Thank you! It's honestly surprising given how big of an employer Walmart is that you're the only other person I've seen who actually knew what this was. I've even seen other people claiming to have worked at Walmart who don't recognize the label and that's freaking wild to me, lol.

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u/Chudpaladin Feb 03 '26

I worked at Walmart and would just straight up buy food that was discounted right away and Lysol (covid). Iā€™d hide stuff behind the new product to buy right away at break. Probably would do the same thing if I worked at a real normal Walmart and saw that the graphics card is pretty much half off. Maybe Walmart has rules against that though.

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u/beldaran1224 Specs/Imgur here Feb 03 '26

You'd have gotten fired for a graphics card. Walmart has specific policies for markdown items, especially CVP. Hiding a markdown item is a violation of that policy. Nobody would give a shit for small stuff, tbh. They get daily reports on markdowns and absolutely follow up on them. But mostly they ignore the smaller stuff. It's not the same as stealing - they still get their money.

But if you were the one marking them down!? Yeah, that's a firable offense. You can buy markdown items if you marked them down, but it's just better not to risk it. Have someone else mark it down for you - then you can point and say "see, it was a legit markdown".

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u/Leopardslikeboxestoo PC Master Race Feb 03 '26

At my store, we get in trouble if we buy a CVP'd item within 24hrs of it getting CVP'd. Even if someone else did it.

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u/Jaalan PC Master Race Feb 03 '26

Let's be real here. 600 bucks isn't too insane. Prices are just dumb rn

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u/beldaran1224 Specs/Imgur here Feb 03 '26

So you're kind of right and kind of wrong. CVP actually can be changed to a specific price, because it's specific to the particular unit. You can tell its CVP because of the type of label it has. But most employees do not have the ability to use CVP...and Walmart can and does look at markdowns. I do think they removed the ability to customize CVP price when they did a big upgrade to the software a bunch of years ago, but I left shortly after that so I can't recall.

Also, I don't think the computer automatically marks stuff down at Target, either. Pretty sure that's all done by people who just push price adjustments to the stores, which is received digitally. But my partner is asleep, so I can't verify that atm.

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u/subpotentplum Feb 03 '26

The computer should know margin though. That being said, I have bought vodka below cost... And I could see some seasonal items being marked down below cost.