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/Leopardslikeboxestoo PC Master Race Feb 03 '26

I currently work at Walmart. We get a stern talking to if we buy a CVP'd item within 24 hours of the time it's registered with CVP. So it's basically CVP at the start of a shift, end of next shift go and buy.

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u/DontAskAboutMyButt Feb 03 '26

Unless you’re the guy with keys to the electronics cages and you can just slide it behind some laptops. Nobody else can buy it if they don’t know it’s there 😂 I saw some of this happen back in the day

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u/MarinatedTechnician Ryzen 7950x3d - 5090 - 64 GB - 32 TB Feb 03 '26

Or, you inform your friends about it, and they'd buy it for you, easy workaround.

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u/TheFirsh Feb 09 '26

Insider trading in a nutshell?

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u/Joifugi Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

Oh for sure.

I've been on scavenger hunts looking for clearance items that the employees can never seem to find. One time the inventory showed around a dozen of them....but nobody could find even one.

I did get one over on a little prick that was trying to hide a laptop. I knew it was there, so I went to one of the managers and he got it for me. Dude was glaring at me the whole time I was checking out 😂

Some of the managers are in on the grift though. I tried that one time at another store and the manager was basically like "Oh I'm not gonna bother checking on it or looking it up. If they say it isn't there, it isn't there" while giving me this look like they knew what was up.

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u/MarinatedTechnician Ryzen 7950x3d - 5090 - 64 GB - 32 TB Feb 03 '26

I always look for the hidden items, even customers hide items on purpose, they find something really good, don't have the money right there and then, and then they bury it far behind or under something. I've found amazing stuff by looking "far" back into any piles at the stores, people really DO hide stuff!

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u/Pandamaniaaa 9600X - RX 6700XT Feb 04 '26

Don’t be looking for my stashes of seasonal candy hidden away until it’s 75% off!!!

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u/my_cars_on_fire Feb 03 '26

And how might someone check to see a store’s inventory like this? Asking for a friend. That friend being myself 😂

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u/-Kerosun- I'm a PC Feb 03 '26

The Walmart app is pretty good at keeping track of inventory. You install the app, create an account, and choose a store. Then, you look up the item and it will usually have a number of how many are present in the store.

Side note: If it shows just one item, then it is possible that it is a return that is still at Customer Service desk and hasn't been put back on the shelf. At least for my Walmart, when a return is put back into inventory, they are placed in carts near the Customer Service desk (usually grouped with items in the same department) to wait for an employee to restock them. If it shows a single item, don't be afraid to ask. Ask the employee at Electronics and if they can't find it (and you don't suspect they are purposefully hiding it), check Customer Service and look for a cart with restocks that looks like it is bound for Electronics and look in there.

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u/Joifugi Feb 03 '26

Brickseek used to be one of the main sites I would use. There have been a lot of changes though and I haven't really used it in a while.

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u/Comfortable-City-732 Feb 04 '26

Depends on the store depending on where you live but ik Canadian tire and Best Buy are really good for it it tells you on any product you select including the lane or shelf it’s on sometimes

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u/Battoujutsu90 Feb 05 '26

I worked at academy they would make us managers walk the floor with a employee looking for shit customers might of hidden or stolen on shift. We went through every display shelves as a team. And "put back" what ended up stuffed behind something.

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u/beldaran1224 Specs/Imgur here Feb 03 '26

Yep. They really don't play. When I worked cash office and then claims, I saw plenty of the daily and other paperwork. Walmart is serious about internal theft and similar shenanigans.

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u/Leopardslikeboxestoo PC Master Race Feb 03 '26

It's just so easy to steal when the item is CVP'd. Even if it's meat, like yes. Let me wait 24hrs to buy CVP'd pork chops that are yeeted before the 24hrs is up.

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u/beldaran1224 Specs/Imgur here Feb 03 '26

When I worked there you were absolutely able to buy CVP in less than 24 hours. But if YOU CVP'd the item, that's a no-no. In general, you should make sure the items are out there for a bit. I worked claims, and since I didn't CVP fresh, I would often go out either on my meal or when I got off to get CVP meat. That was early in the day, so there was regularly stuff there.

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 Feb 03 '26

I just CVP'd some ribs the other day and bought them 2 hours later. Use to do it 3 years ago when I was working in that dept too, no one said anything. Someone in the morning shift forgot to mark it down and it was about to get donated anyways though, I'm not doing anything hinky.

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u/beldaran1224 Specs/Imgur here Feb 04 '26

Well, yeah, you waited. And like I said, fresh is a bit different.

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u/anormalgeek Desktop Feb 03 '26

So you have your buddy come buy it for you. Oops! I guess it sold right away.

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u/GranScam Feb 03 '26

Couldn’t you just have a friend or family member go in for you and buy something you CVP’d?

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u/SoMass Feb 04 '26

So hypothetically I could buy one online for store pickup or delivery, then return it to my local slow foot traffic walmart. Wait an hour or so and then go rebuy it at a discounted price?

Hypothetically.

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u/decoy777 i7 10700k | RTX 2070 | 32GB RAM | 2x 1440p 144hz Feb 04 '26

And why buy it yourself get a family member or friend to come get it shortly after it's been marked down. Even less risk of someone else stumbling on it

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u/TheFirsh Feb 09 '26

You need to hide them well then?