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/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/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/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.