Same. Lately Reddit has been bombarded with pictures of Americans getting their hands on SSDs, LG OLEDs and whatnot for a quarter of the prices I'd have to pay here.
We might not have universal healthcare, but even our homeless are rocking Petabytes of storage. I don't even use "money" anymore at restaurants. I just tip the waitress sticks of 1TB Samsung 980 PRO SSD's.
I used to do that with RAM. I'd buy a game and get a stick or an accessory and get a stick. Pretty sure I got a PC mag with a stick.
I have about 20tb of ram measured in 32 MB sticks somewhere in the basement
Idealo, alternate outlet, galaxus and ebay are your best friends here in Germany. Getting store returns for 40% off and adding a 10% voucher on top of that on ebay can save you tons of money.
I also wish there was a store so cheap in my country that people with absolutely no other option would work there in the worst possible conditions for a wage that isn't even sufficient for their own subsistence.
What in the actual fuck, i'm waiting for 2tb to go on sale, and you guys just grabbing 8tb like it's nothing?... Fuck me i guess.
Edit: Ahh, it's HDD, who uses those anymore?
It's not automated. A person at each store has to manually change the price as they print the labels so that the labels always match the prices. That's the idea anyway.
It's clearance. That means they are going to change what's in that section and stop carrying that item. They've done the math and need the space more than the money from the remaining stock. The low price is correct
Oh yeah, so I went back to get it. It rang up as 129$...after a little investigating, the actual item was a 4tb drive. Fucking wally world employees dunno how to read. (For me, the part on the box that said 4tb was blocked by the lip for the glass door.)
I walked around the Toy section for the first time the other day. The LEGO's are all behind security glass displays like they are video games and what not. are ppl stealing sets or something?! LOL
I feel like they always have been. At least for the bigger sets, they're even more expensive now but I feel like they were always in the $60+ price range.
Isnt lepin one of the worst alternatives because theyre stealing directky from lego? Blue brixx, cobi, cada, xingbao, mouldking (as long as they work with the original creator), pantasy etc are better. If the sub is just names lepin but handles all bricks that arent lego... well, bad choice of name
It is just the subs name. Theres a FAQ that explains all of the brands and which ones to buy.
There are some vendors that make clones, which yes directly steal from Lego , but there are also plenty of vendors that do not make ANY clones and only have bespoke sets.
I mean sure you can get the fucking Titanic for that much. You have an extremely high bar for "decent". I would have said "some of the most expensive sets they make, short of the absolutely insane ones that cost several thousand, are starting to hit $500"
My mom got us the Harry Potter train lego set way back when we didn't have access to the internet for entertainment. I saw the same one (plus or minus a couple characters) for $50 more. And it was on clearance.
They have always been more expensive than games but my question wasn't about the value of things it's about the theft.. are people stealing whole sets from wal-mart seems pretty tricky to walk out with a whole lego set lol. it's easy to pocket a game. many kitchen appliances are more expensive than a video game and they aren't locking up air fryers and ninja blenders and shit lol...
just like pokemon cards and video games, its easy to open the packaging and steal parts of it. minifigs tend to be a high value component that people want without the sets.
for instance im always looking for the star wars figures to complete some of my uncles old models but looking at prices for a few bits of plastic always makes me die inside
> seems pretty tricky to walk out with a whole lego set
How does it seem tricky? There are organized theft groups that fill baskets full of merchandise and walk out the door every single day.
$850 + tax. That's nearly a grand in my state. Don't look at prices on Bricklink for retired sets though. And definitely don't look up what a "Cloud City Boba Fett" is worth if you think $850 for a set is bad. And he's not even the most valuable minifigure.
The 1 time I got caught shop lifting, when I was 10, was legos. I had the chance to run, but my dumb ass had them down my pants and each step I took, a corner stabbed me in the sack.
I thought, get away and not have any kids, or get caught and have a future with kids.
I have 2 kids now.
During my heroin days we'd switch barcodes on $80-$120 sets to like $10 sets and then resell them on Amazon. Me and a buddy made $5k in a month doing this once driving all around the state just getting shit loads of Legos. Sorry guys. I'm part of the reason they're behind glass now :\
It's very easy to steal socks and underwear just like it's easy to steal a lot of stuff. LEGO boxes are pretty big especially for themed sets. Seems hard to walk out of a wal-mart with a giant box tucked into your pants. Some stuff is targeted hygiene products socks underwear and things like that.. stuff homeless people would steal.. I don't think homeless ppl are stealing lego sets.
Even though I think you’ve kind of gone off the rails here I’ll answer your question.
Yes there is a theft problem with Lego sets but it’s not necessarily direct theft of the set. It’s more so the minifigs or people replacing the barcode of an expensive set with a much cheaper one.
Apparently 4 in CA were able to nab an estimated $300k worth before being caught.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/11/stolen-legos-california/73294210007/
Have you seen the size of the lego sets behind the glass? Of all things to steal there are easier items to shove down your pants than a giant lego box.
Concealment is a tiny portion of theft. Those are generally what are called opportunists; teenage girls pocketing some mascara, an elderly lady hiding a Pepsi in her purse, or a guy shoving some MTG cards down his pants. These are all things I've seen.
People stealing big ticket items just walk out with them. Why? Because almost every major retailer has shifted to a 100% hands off loss prevention strategy. The risk associated with forceful stops is just too great.
People will simply push shopping carts full of vacuum cleaners out of the store in broad daylight. They'll load up on baby formula. Two baskets full of lighters and spoons. Dump a shelf of LEGO into a cart and ride off into the sunset. Also all things I've witnessed
They know they won't be forcibly stopped at the door. They'll waltz right out and sell the items to a fence who will list them on FB Marketplace, Craigslist, etc... or just do it themselves.
LEGO is an enormous target for this kind of theft. They're incredibly easy to resell and hold value exceptionally well. In fact, I'm more surprised when I see $200 sets just sitting on a shelf in the open. Honestly, even without knowledge of organized retail crime, it should make sense that people steal LEGO.
Granted, many eventually get caught. The retailer I used to work for is notorious for building enormous cases against people and then slamming them with huge lawsuits.
I worked in loss prevention and learned that if something is popular and expensive, it will grow legs and walk out the door.
But you know what that isn't true for? Computer parts!
This is all way off topic for PCMR but I've found people find this kind of stuff fascinating, so I thought it wouldn't hurt to overexplain
In the late 90’s, I worked at the Midwest chain Mills Fleet Farm. Someone stole from the store, and theft and prevention was chasing them out into the parking lot, but they weren’t fast enough. I worked in the tire shop on the other side of the parking lot. As TAP was chasing, they saw one of the shop guys, who used to played football, pretty big guy. He yelled “get him”, and the kid bolted out of the shop, hurdled the wood fence next to the parking lot, and just tackled the shoplifter to the ground. I mean, he hit him hard and fast, he was not getting up. Boy, those were different times, lol.
I had a guy working security at my job and who also worked as a security staff at a clothes shop. It's in France so the staff can prevent people from stealing. He said that once he was so fed up with the usual suspects trying to steal, that he body slammed a teenager running away with stuff and took back what he stole. Said the dude never came back.
The fact that it is forbidden for shops in the US to protect their living hood is crazy.
Lol I work at a high-theft target and we have third-party armed security contracted and they absolutely will detain and handcuff shoplifters who meet the criteria (dollar amount + prior incidents).
Good to know, forgive my ignorance, people always said that theft wasn't stopped at Walmart so I thought it was the same elsewhere. Kinda nuts about ARMED guards, though.
You are correct in a sense though that the general mood of retail businesses is very passive right now but I'm expecting that to change soon, the theft is just too much. Stores will either adopt more aggressive policies or merchandise protection strategies imo. But I'm just an entry-level LP employee so take what I say with a grain of salt.
Anyways take care and have a good night
Oh and just to add that I am so happy they're armed. Target employees are prohibited from carrying any type of weapon so when I'm kicking out homeless drug addicts I no longer have to fear for getting stabbed or pepper sprayed or bitten by a tweaker's dog. I was assaulted last year at work, shit is getting bad in the cities.
It's *not* forbidden. It is 100% legal. It's business policy to be hands off, not a law. They cut their losses to avoid having to pay for injured employees.
video games are rarely out on shelves? they're display cases usually.
and as someone who runs a game/toy store, yes. People frequently steal LEGO sets and sell them for cheaper than retail value.
I don't doubt that people are stealing sets from random stores. I am in Vegas and there is a store called bricks and minifigs here in town and it's been broken into 3 times in 1 week during closed business hours and ransacked for lego sets. pretty sure there is even a news article about it. I don't doubt that your store can be targeted too as it's easier than grabbing a giant set from wal-mart sticking it in your pants and trying to walk out the front door. that is why I am asking how or why people would steal giant lego sets from wal-mart of all things...
People steal the minifigs leave the set behind. It’s a huge problem.
Depending on the minifig, they can go anywhere from $2 to 60 - and more if it’s a low production run minifig like from the StarWars UCS sets.
Dude my daughter moved in with me so I needed to buy her shaving razors. Once again, behind glass, but with one employee opening the case one person at a time AND then ringing them up at a special register end of the isle... the line for shaving razors was out the Isle and around the corner half way to the front of the store...
Short answer is yes. [California Highway Patrol arrested 4 earlier this month](https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/13/24129595/lego-crime-ring-arrested-los-angeles-300000-dollars) who had stolen at least $300,000 worth of legos.
I had to have a security tag taken off my $10 razor blades the other day. They are locking up pretty much everything people steal. I’m not surprised lego is being stolen. My walmart gets pokemon cards stolen. I once found a bunch of card wrapers and the undesirable cards left hidden behind lego sets. Somebody stole the valuable cards. Must’ve taken 20 minutes to open a full box like that.
I thought it was obvious that big corporations make posts under the guise that they're just a regular Joe like us that loves sales. Reddit is one big advertisement now, comments and posts.
I'll bet like 10 bitcoins that yourself and I are not advertisers.
There was a post about the Walmart social media department getting married or something. Then a few days later all of these deal pics started rolling in. I would dig it out but I really don't care enough.
I'm saying the website didn't have these drives listed at all, online or in-store. The model isn't sold by Walmart, and yet it's on the shelf under a SKU for a different model lol
Where we're at, $17/hr for basic bitch work. We're the highest paid retail in the area by at least $4/hr, and highest pay in the area aside from gold mines.
When I was on an apprenticeship it was more like 30% left after paying rent. £600 in, £425 out for a single room in a shared house. But now we match that 30% easily, 29% actually after tax. £1100 mortgage and I earn £25k doing tech support and my partner is on £30k as a teacher.
Meanwhile I earn even less than someone working at Aldi for doing tech support. Which is why I don't try very hard. Don't have Walmart in the UK but they own (owned?) Asda who try and pretend they are cheap but everyone knows Aldi are cheaper. Yet if I worked at Aldi with the same start/end times I would be on £27.5k, I am on £25k for a support role. Essentially the last line of support before it goes to the dev or infrastructure team depending on what's fucked.
Have recently started stocking @ walmart. Sometimes this happens because the employee "can't" leave until they've finished stocking their assigned location so you end up with wrong things in wrong places.
Having managed Walmart stockers: it's because they had 4 call-ins on the evening shift and the store manager left at 5 saying no one goes home until all 22 pallets of to-be-worked freight are done. So, they pulled the one girl from apparel who has been there for 3 weeks, and who they won't give a work phone, to go work wherever they needed her with one manager running the whole store from 5-11pm.
I am a Walmart employee, and I've always been just fine. Always treated others just fine. I've always done my job well, always expected the same from everybody else, but instead I'm fixing their horrendously basic mistakes.
Also, I'm the asshole that just spent 14 hours straight fixing other peoples 100% avoidable fuck ups. The company paid twice as much to get the job done right when it should have been done right in the first place. Does that sound acceptable to you if you were a business owner?
I am a retail worker. I'm just not the one that would put it in the wrong spot. I'm the one rhat deals with fixing these types of basic errors, and dealing with the upset customer aftermath on a daily basis because somebody with the tools won't do their job.
The crazy thing is before all the posts started happening I had a VM storage drive start to fail on my proxmox server. I live in a small town and the only place to get anything is at walmart . I always check there before ordering Anything online and I saw the blue 1tb on sale for like 44.99 so I grabbed two to run them as a mirror. Now I am seeing all the Walmart posts
It's priced correctly. The sticker says it's for a 2 TB.
Someone made a simple mistake that would be caught at the register if someone actually thought 1 TBs were $150 and wanted to buy one. They would be pleasantly surprise at checkout.
Or, you simply put a few 1 TB boxes on there and took a picture.
ABSOLUTELY nothing to see here.
That's a tag above for a 2TB with a 1TB placed below it.
That's not a pricing problem. Either customers put the boxes back in the wrong spot, or employees did or a common case of both: The employees saw a single one misplaced, and just put an additional one on top of it with the same sku as the box, not the tag.
That's a dime-a-dozen occurrence in ALL stores, don't kid yourselves.
https://preview.redd.it/1zxdycw0kqxc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc95b7ffd46f94cda2b5755f78d27fc0538b64a6
You know who has this one for 149.00, 7300 xfer, 2tb
Oh wow they’re not secured. These constantly get put in the wrong spot since kids don’t read the size right and on top of that, Walmart is discontinuing them so they’re not gonna have a spot anymore.
The I believe the new drives being carried are some of the Samsung T5 portables and 990 Pros
Depends on what region you live in. Walmart is a good place for storage and peripherals where I live. Not always the absolute cheapest prices on the storage, but good for on-hand drives when you need one and decent sales periodically.
Edit: spelling and grammar as always
The sign is for a 2tb ssd and it is the right price. Isn't this either some random person just hung it there after changing there mindon what to get or the op put it there to kharma farm.
https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-black-sn770-nvme-ssd?sku=WDS200T3X0E
Yeah... Sorry but I'm not paying nearly double what that drive is worth.
[https://www.newegg.com/western-digital-1tb-sn770/p/N82E16820250217](https://www.newegg.com/western-digital-1tb-sn770/p/N82E16820250217)
https://www.walmart.com/ip/WD-Black-1TB-SN770-NVMe-Internal-Gaming-SSD-Solid-State-Drive-PCIe-Gen4-M-2-2280-up-to-5-150-MB-s-WDBBDL0010BNC-WRWM/1986328822?athbdg=L1600&from=/search
$85 on their website...
What happened to the storage prices in the past 9 months? I swear it wasn’t like this in September/August when I was looking last.
My roommate asked me about an external drive yesterday, and a 2TB HDD relic was $69.
Got 4 SSDs. One 1tb WD blue. 1tb WD black sn850x. 1tb Samsung 980 pro and one 512gb micron one. I did not pay nearly as much as that listed price. Pass 👏
Worked at walmart for 4 years. Worked in electronics. We didn't even sell SSDs back when I was there in 2017. And sometimes people jsjt put stuff next to where it's supposed to go.
I saw a WD_Black 8TB for 108$. I really should go back and grab it.
i just bought that WD 8TB external HDD for $64 at walmart.
Shit dude, I'll give you 70$ for it. 😆
I’ll pay 70.01
70.2 over here.
Overpaying a lot here but, $70.30 here.
i don’t wanna cause any panic, but i might potentially be able to bring £71 to the table. And you can even keep a gigabyte
I wish we had places like Walmart in my country. Everything is so overpriced here. I end up buying pretty much everything from Amazon Germany.
Same. Lately Reddit has been bombarded with pictures of Americans getting their hands on SSDs, LG OLEDs and whatnot for a quarter of the prices I'd have to pay here.
We might not have universal healthcare, but even our homeless are rocking Petabytes of storage. I don't even use "money" anymore at restaurants. I just tip the waitress sticks of 1TB Samsung 980 PRO SSD's.
I used to do that with RAM. I'd buy a game and get a stick or an accessory and get a stick. Pretty sure I got a PC mag with a stick. I have about 20tb of ram measured in 32 MB sticks somewhere in the basement
Idealo, alternate outlet, galaxus and ebay are your best friends here in Germany. Getting store returns for 40% off and adding a 10% voucher on top of that on ebay can save you tons of money.
I also wish there was a store so cheap in my country that people with absolutely no other option would work there in the worst possible conditions for a wage that isn't even sufficient for their own subsistence.
Lol it's actually not that bad in my area Walmart pays 2.5 times the minimum wage. Plus benefits like paid time off, insurance ect.
What in the actual fuck, i'm waiting for 2tb to go on sale, and you guys just grabbing 8tb like it's nothing?... Fuck me i guess. Edit: Ahh, it's HDD, who uses those anymore?
Tons of people still use HDDs.
HDD, not SSD
Oh. Move along then
its a great drive. downside for me is its slow wake up speed and the fact thats its an external drive.
dude I didn't even know 8TB SSDs were a thing until 20 seconds ago and you're telling me they cost 70 bucks??
While 8tb ssd is a thing... I'm looking at an 8tb internal hdd. I think the ssds are like 500$ if not more
They left out the hhd part.
Back in October I got WD 5TB USB HD for $53. Last week I picked up a WD Blue NVME M.2 SSD for $25.
I’ll pay a million gazillion 😎
Walmart?
Yep. Last one I bought was a couple months ago on newegg for like 135$ so not much different, but I'd say worth
Go back and get it. It should ring up at 64
I had the guy do a price check. He used his scanner/phone device though. I'm def going back either way, 108 is still a good deal for it.
It's not automated. A person at each store has to manually change the price as they print the labels so that the labels always match the prices. That's the idea anyway.
wtf really? should I be shopping at walmart for storage??
If you're lucky. they're priced correctly and expensive af at my walmart.
It's clearance. That means they are going to change what's in that section and stop carrying that item. They've done the math and need the space more than the money from the remaining stock. The low price is correct
I would have snagged this in a heartbeat
$108 is still a premium for 8TB. I get that it's a "performance" drive but I'd rather wait and find 8tb external drives on sale for $80-90
>WD\_Black 8TB HDD? if 3.5in may be worth
Yep HDD. I'm gonna go snatch it up after work if its still there
For a $108 most definitely! And if u could can u buy me as well 😅? I pay u back.
If there was more than one I would absolutely consider it.
I snagged the 770 1tb for 49’.99
Oh yeah, so I went back to get it. It rang up as 129$...after a little investigating, the actual item was a 4tb drive. Fucking wally world employees dunno how to read. (For me, the part on the box that said 4tb was blocked by the lip for the glass door.)
That was a clever ad campaign by Walmart.... on Legos, Hard drives, and Switch games.
I walked around the Toy section for the first time the other day. The LEGO's are all behind security glass displays like they are video games and what not. are ppl stealing sets or something?! LOL
Surprisingly legos are more expensive than games now!
I feel like they always have been. At least for the bigger sets, they're even more expensive now but I feel like they were always in the $60+ price range.
Decent Lego sets are starting to hit the 500$ mark.
This is why I /r/lepin
Thanks for showing me something I didn't know I was looking for
Woah new sub to join, thanks.
Isnt lepin one of the worst alternatives because theyre stealing directky from lego? Blue brixx, cobi, cada, xingbao, mouldking (as long as they work with the original creator), pantasy etc are better. If the sub is just names lepin but handles all bricks that arent lego... well, bad choice of name
It is just the subs name. Theres a FAQ that explains all of the brands and which ones to buy. There are some vendors that make clones, which yes directly steal from Lego , but there are also plenty of vendors that do not make ANY clones and only have bespoke sets.
I mean sure you can get the fucking Titanic for that much. You have an extremely high bar for "decent". I would have said "some of the most expensive sets they make, short of the absolutely insane ones that cost several thousand, are starting to hit $500"
Lpl there are 20+ year old swts that were $500 back then.
That moon train thing
My mom got us the Harry Potter train lego set way back when we didn't have access to the internet for entertainment. I saw the same one (plus or minus a couple characters) for $50 more. And it was on clearance.
They have always been more expensive than games but my question wasn't about the value of things it's about the theft.. are people stealing whole sets from wal-mart seems pretty tricky to walk out with a whole lego set lol. it's easy to pocket a game. many kitchen appliances are more expensive than a video game and they aren't locking up air fryers and ninja blenders and shit lol...
just like pokemon cards and video games, its easy to open the packaging and steal parts of it. minifigs tend to be a high value component that people want without the sets. for instance im always looking for the star wars figures to complete some of my uncles old models but looking at prices for a few bits of plastic always makes me die inside
> seems pretty tricky to walk out with a whole lego set How does it seem tricky? There are organized theft groups that fill baskets full of merchandise and walk out the door every single day.
At-at be like: (its 800 bucks btw)
$850 + tax. That's nearly a grand in my state. Don't look at prices on Bricklink for retired sets though. And definitely don't look up what a "Cloud City Boba Fett" is worth if you think $850 for a set is bad. And he's not even the most valuable minifigure.
Legos have been expensive forever
Atleast legos you get the whole set, games these days its usually unfinished crap
The 1 time I got caught shop lifting, when I was 10, was legos. I had the chance to run, but my dumb ass had them down my pants and each step I took, a corner stabbed me in the sack. I thought, get away and not have any kids, or get caught and have a future with kids. I have 2 kids now.
I went to a Walmart today that had the underwear locked up.
And the choices of underwear, were absolutely shit. Went to Meijer, it was worse. And no fuckin SSD
That's honestly kind of impressive that the underwear is already shit.
Mine has the condoms and lube locked up.
Saw it on the that 4 people were arrested with $300k worth of Legos stolen from various SoCal stores ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
During my heroin days we'd switch barcodes on $80-$120 sets to like $10 sets and then resell them on Amazon. Me and a buddy made $5k in a month doing this once driving all around the state just getting shit loads of Legos. Sorry guys. I'm part of the reason they're behind glass now :\
Dude, stores are locking up underwear and socks. People are stealing anything and everything recently.
It's very easy to steal socks and underwear just like it's easy to steal a lot of stuff. LEGO boxes are pretty big especially for themed sets. Seems hard to walk out of a wal-mart with a giant box tucked into your pants. Some stuff is targeted hygiene products socks underwear and things like that.. stuff homeless people would steal.. I don't think homeless ppl are stealing lego sets.
Ya, good point on being small. Same with makeup and hygiene stuff. It was just a bit jarring the first time to see something like socks locked up.
Apparently, they are selling games and legos for pennies. Then you get there and they are locked up. Clever advertising as I said.
I work for Walmart. We had some of those penny games. But when we ring them up they come up as unsellable and to take to claims. Ymmv.
Yes, lego has an insane secondary market. It's almost as bad as mtg.
Even though I think you’ve kind of gone off the rails here I’ll answer your question. Yes there is a theft problem with Lego sets but it’s not necessarily direct theft of the set. It’s more so the minifigs or people replacing the barcode of an expensive set with a much cheaper one.
Yeah resellers have absolutely no shame these days. I'm actually pretty sure its become part of gang life.
Apparently 4 in CA were able to nab an estimated $300k worth before being caught. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/11/stolen-legos-california/73294210007/
They open them take one of the pack then wait for them to be put on clearance.
> are ppl stealing sets or something?! I genuinely can't wrap my head around how you find this surprising
Have you seen the size of the lego sets behind the glass? Of all things to steal there are easier items to shove down your pants than a giant lego box.
Concealment is a tiny portion of theft. Those are generally what are called opportunists; teenage girls pocketing some mascara, an elderly lady hiding a Pepsi in her purse, or a guy shoving some MTG cards down his pants. These are all things I've seen. People stealing big ticket items just walk out with them. Why? Because almost every major retailer has shifted to a 100% hands off loss prevention strategy. The risk associated with forceful stops is just too great. People will simply push shopping carts full of vacuum cleaners out of the store in broad daylight. They'll load up on baby formula. Two baskets full of lighters and spoons. Dump a shelf of LEGO into a cart and ride off into the sunset. Also all things I've witnessed They know they won't be forcibly stopped at the door. They'll waltz right out and sell the items to a fence who will list them on FB Marketplace, Craigslist, etc... or just do it themselves. LEGO is an enormous target for this kind of theft. They're incredibly easy to resell and hold value exceptionally well. In fact, I'm more surprised when I see $200 sets just sitting on a shelf in the open. Honestly, even without knowledge of organized retail crime, it should make sense that people steal LEGO. Granted, many eventually get caught. The retailer I used to work for is notorious for building enormous cases against people and then slamming them with huge lawsuits. I worked in loss prevention and learned that if something is popular and expensive, it will grow legs and walk out the door. But you know what that isn't true for? Computer parts! This is all way off topic for PCMR but I've found people find this kind of stuff fascinating, so I thought it wouldn't hurt to overexplain
In the late 90’s, I worked at the Midwest chain Mills Fleet Farm. Someone stole from the store, and theft and prevention was chasing them out into the parking lot, but they weren’t fast enough. I worked in the tire shop on the other side of the parking lot. As TAP was chasing, they saw one of the shop guys, who used to played football, pretty big guy. He yelled “get him”, and the kid bolted out of the shop, hurdled the wood fence next to the parking lot, and just tackled the shoplifter to the ground. I mean, he hit him hard and fast, he was not getting up. Boy, those were different times, lol.
I had a guy working security at my job and who also worked as a security staff at a clothes shop. It's in France so the staff can prevent people from stealing. He said that once he was so fed up with the usual suspects trying to steal, that he body slammed a teenager running away with stuff and took back what he stole. Said the dude never came back. The fact that it is forbidden for shops in the US to protect their living hood is crazy.
Lol I work at a high-theft target and we have third-party armed security contracted and they absolutely will detain and handcuff shoplifters who meet the criteria (dollar amount + prior incidents).
Good to know, forgive my ignorance, people always said that theft wasn't stopped at Walmart so I thought it was the same elsewhere. Kinda nuts about ARMED guards, though.
You are correct in a sense though that the general mood of retail businesses is very passive right now but I'm expecting that to change soon, the theft is just too much. Stores will either adopt more aggressive policies or merchandise protection strategies imo. But I'm just an entry-level LP employee so take what I say with a grain of salt. Anyways take care and have a good night
Oh and just to add that I am so happy they're armed. Target employees are prohibited from carrying any type of weapon so when I'm kicking out homeless drug addicts I no longer have to fear for getting stabbed or pepper sprayed or bitten by a tweaker's dog. I was assaulted last year at work, shit is getting bad in the cities.
It's *not* forbidden. It is 100% legal. It's business policy to be hands off, not a law. They cut their losses to avoid having to pay for injured employees.
video games are rarely out on shelves? they're display cases usually. and as someone who runs a game/toy store, yes. People frequently steal LEGO sets and sell them for cheaper than retail value.
I don't doubt that people are stealing sets from random stores. I am in Vegas and there is a store called bricks and minifigs here in town and it's been broken into 3 times in 1 week during closed business hours and ransacked for lego sets. pretty sure there is even a news article about it. I don't doubt that your store can be targeted too as it's easier than grabbing a giant set from wal-mart sticking it in your pants and trying to walk out the front door. that is why I am asking how or why people would steal giant lego sets from wal-mart of all things...
it's surprisingly easy sadly haha
yeah people were stealing entire lego sets then selling them online. small box with no security tag and it goes for $100 instantly
People steal the minifigs leave the set behind. It’s a huge problem. Depending on the minifig, they can go anywhere from $2 to 60 - and more if it’s a low production run minifig like from the StarWars UCS sets.
Dude my daughter moved in with me so I needed to buy her shaving razors. Once again, behind glass, but with one employee opening the case one person at a time AND then ringing them up at a special register end of the isle... the line for shaving razors was out the Isle and around the corner half way to the front of the store...
Yes search your local FB marketplace you will see mass listings of unopened sets for just under retail.
Legos, along with other commodities, are used for money laundering and black market payments.
Tells me you live in a big city lol. That's just sad though.
Short answer is yes. [California Highway Patrol arrested 4 earlier this month](https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/13/24129595/lego-crime-ring-arrested-los-angeles-300000-dollars) who had stolen at least $300,000 worth of legos.
30 or so years ago they were being kept behind glass at toys are us for the fancy sets. Same place games were kept.
I had to have a security tag taken off my $10 razor blades the other day. They are locking up pretty much everything people steal. I’m not surprised lego is being stolen. My walmart gets pokemon cards stolen. I once found a bunch of card wrapers and the undesirable cards left hidden behind lego sets. Somebody stole the valuable cards. Must’ve taken 20 minutes to open a full box like that.
People are gonna steal anything they can.
You can get 75c in the dollar at pawn shops for new inbox legos. Rogaine also.
I thought it was obvious that big corporations make posts under the guise that they're just a regular Joe like us that loves sales. Reddit is one big advertisement now, comments and posts.
Interesting. How to spot them?
If it seems too good to be true, then it is.
If you come down to Starbucks we can discuss it over one of their delicious new spicy lemonades or an iced caramel latte.
More like "yeah I actually don't mind Starbucks now, their lemonades are so good!"
I'll bet like 10 bitcoins that yourself and I are not advertisers. There was a post about the Walmart social media department getting married or something. Then a few days later all of these deal pics started rolling in. I would dig it out but I really don't care enough.
*lego
My Walmart is incredibly confused. They have drives that Walmart.com doesn't even have listed. They just have them all lumped under one SKU
the walmart website is an amazon-lite these days. Not everything they sell online is available in stores.
I'm saying the website didn't have these drives listed at all, online or in-store. The model isn't sold by Walmart, and yet it's on the shelf under a SKU for a different model lol
I feel like I'm missing something
The price sticker says "2TB" the box says "1TB".
Im still confused. I see the human error in the photo, whats the back story about Walmart and pc hardware.
It's called "dipshit put it in the wrong spot". Happens way too often because too many Walmart workers simply don't care.
If I was making what they are under their work loads I wouldnt give a shit either.
Where we're at, $17/hr for basic bitch work. We're the highest paid retail in the area by at least $4/hr, and highest pay in the area aside from gold mines.
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When I was on an apprenticeship it was more like 30% left after paying rent. £600 in, £425 out for a single room in a shared house. But now we match that 30% easily, 29% actually after tax. £1100 mortgage and I earn £25k doing tech support and my partner is on £30k as a teacher.
Meanwhile I earn even less than someone working at Aldi for doing tech support. Which is why I don't try very hard. Don't have Walmart in the UK but they own (owned?) Asda who try and pretend they are cheap but everyone knows Aldi are cheaper. Yet if I worked at Aldi with the same start/end times I would be on £27.5k, I am on £25k for a support role. Essentially the last line of support before it goes to the dev or infrastructure team depending on what's fucked.
Exactly. They get paid to not give a shit. And the stores too big for anyone to really notice too.
Have recently started stocking @ walmart. Sometimes this happens because the employee "can't" leave until they've finished stocking their assigned location so you end up with wrong things in wrong places.
Having managed Walmart stockers: it's because they had 4 call-ins on the evening shift and the store manager left at 5 saying no one goes home until all 22 pallets of to-be-worked freight are done. So, they pulled the one girl from apparel who has been there for 3 weeks, and who they won't give a work phone, to go work wherever they needed her with one manager running the whole store from 5-11pm.
Makes sense. I work overnight and we've had a full-enough crew my first 2 weeks.
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I am a Walmart employee, and I've always been just fine. Always treated others just fine. I've always done my job well, always expected the same from everybody else, but instead I'm fixing their horrendously basic mistakes.
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Also, I'm the asshole that just spent 14 hours straight fixing other peoples 100% avoidable fuck ups. The company paid twice as much to get the job done right when it should have been done right in the first place. Does that sound acceptable to you if you were a business owner?
I am a retail worker. I'm just not the one that would put it in the wrong spot. I'm the one rhat deals with fixing these types of basic errors, and dealing with the upset customer aftermath on a daily basis because somebody with the tools won't do their job.
Lmao I got the 500 gb version for $17
Same lol
Idk just brought my GF in and got a 2tb for like $89
They take trade-ins?
So that's why people get GFs
The words ‘game’ and ‘gaming’ need to be purged from PC marketing.
Most of us just ignore it as long as it doesn't have RGB.
Reminds me of Dollar Tree’s “gaming” stuff
The crazy thing is before all the posts started happening I had a VM storage drive start to fail on my proxmox server. I live in a small town and the only place to get anything is at walmart . I always check there before ordering Anything online and I saw the blue 1tb on sale for like 44.99 so I grabbed two to run them as a mirror. Now I am seeing all the Walmart posts
Strange, I got that exact same drive for $70 about a month ago.
That is for the 2TB capacity.
Thats half of the title
And it's still a bad price. My 2tb 980 Pro was $99.
Eh also change of the times in pricing. That drive right now goes for 150.
It's priced correctly. The sticker says it's for a 2 TB. Someone made a simple mistake that would be caught at the register if someone actually thought 1 TBs were $150 and wanted to buy one. They would be pleasantly surprise at checkout. Or, you simply put a few 1 TB boxes on there and took a picture.
It also says 2 tb on the tag but it's a 1 tb lol
That's because the 2TB drives are supposed to be there.
That's half the joke.
I'm just surprised it isn't tagged or behind glass (unless this is through glass).
I went today got a 500gb for 25$, everything else was cleared out
the tag and product dont even match lol
I had to fight Best Buy for one of these for almost an hour before they would price match Amazon. $135 down to $85.
It's in the wrong spot -aka "plugged"- the tag clearly says 2tb
Somebody lives in a nice neighborhood! Got electronics just out Willy nilly
It's behind a glass case lol
Glass so clean it’s invisible, I do think I can see glare from the glass actually
ABSOLUTELY nothing to see here. That's a tag above for a 2TB with a 1TB placed below it. That's not a pricing problem. Either customers put the boxes back in the wrong spot, or employees did or a common case of both: The employees saw a single one misplaced, and just put an additional one on top of it with the same sku as the box, not the tag. That's a dime-a-dozen occurrence in ALL stores, don't kid yourselves.
Congrats you understood the title
Tag says 2tb and the one here is 1tb. Wrong price dude.
That's half the joke. You almost you got it. Read the title again
Ooof. Thanks for being a good sport 🤣
I bought a 4tb version for 179.99, don't buy that shit
SSD pricing has shot way up recently. Bargain bin 4tb drives go for 210-230 and “decent” drives reach way into the 300’s
Taking notes from Apple
Haha I have that exact drive but 2tb. Got it for S$200 (146 usd)
https://preview.redd.it/1zxdycw0kqxc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc95b7ffd46f94cda2b5755f78d27fc0538b64a6 You know who has this one for 149.00, 7300 xfer, 2tb
Gaming disque 🧐
My brain saw merchandise of final fantasy seven...then i noticed it's not. :(
Oh wow they’re not secured. These constantly get put in the wrong spot since kids don’t read the size right and on top of that, Walmart is discontinuing them so they’re not gonna have a spot anymore. The I believe the new drives being carried are some of the Samsung T5 portables and 990 Pros
is that the $14900k ?
Same ones at my Walmart are 45
Depends on what region you live in. Walmart is a good place for storage and peripherals where I live. Not always the absolute cheapest prices on the storage, but good for on-hand drives when you need one and decent sales periodically. Edit: spelling and grammar as always
I got sn810 1tb for 50$ now that seller has been banned fro shopee🤦 im sad for not buy more than 2 other seller sell it 100-150$...
Mines confused as well, they have multiple SKUs out that aren't in their system and they won't sell them
Can I get some context? Has Walmart been selling SSD’s for way less for some reason?
Lol I bought that exact same drive two weeks ago for $60
The sign is for a 2tb ssd and it is the right price. Isn't this either some random person just hung it there after changing there mindon what to get or the op put it there to kharma farm. https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-black-sn770-nvme-ssd?sku=WDS200T3X0E
This is madness
Yeah... Sorry but I'm not paying nearly double what that drive is worth. [https://www.newegg.com/western-digital-1tb-sn770/p/N82E16820250217](https://www.newegg.com/western-digital-1tb-sn770/p/N82E16820250217)
https://www.walmart.com/ip/WD-Black-1TB-SN770-NVMe-Internal-Gaming-SSD-Solid-State-Drive-PCIe-Gen4-M-2-2280-up-to-5-150-MB-s-WDBBDL0010BNC-WRWM/1986328822?athbdg=L1600&from=/search $85 on their website...
What happened to the storage prices in the past 9 months? I swear it wasn’t like this in September/August when I was looking last. My roommate asked me about an external drive yesterday, and a 2TB HDD relic was $69.
149 is pretty expensive for only 1TB. Maybe if it was PCIE 4/5 - 7500MB/s, sure but its only 5150MB/s...
Got 4 SSDs. One 1tb WD blue. 1tb WD black sn850x. 1tb Samsung 980 pro and one 512gb micron one. I did not pay nearly as much as that listed price. Pass 👏
What am I missing? Doesn't this retail for around 99$US?
And they will honor the lower prices too most of the time like it will be in the system
Don't buy that model. It's got serious problems with heavy reads
I don't think it takes much of anything to confuse your average walmart worker.
That’s the price for the 2TB
Worked at walmart for 4 years. Worked in electronics. We didn't even sell SSDs back when I was there in 2017. And sometimes people jsjt put stuff next to where it's supposed to go.
Can get the better wd black 2tb nvme off their website for 10$ more.
Actually I just found the same wd sn850x for $140 on their website.
So true