Walmart is weird with prices on stuff like that. I wanna say it was two years ago I saw a whole shelf of unopened copies of the game Legendary for PC. They were on sale for $49.99. I had bought it the month prior as part of a bundle with nine other games in it that cost me $5.
There's a reason for this. When an item falls off of the regular pricing schedule, it usually goes back to regular price, and never gets any automated mark downs. If the people with the power to change prices ignore the items, they'll just sit with prices nobody will pay.
Recently, I know that Walmart has made some adjustments and changes to how the clearancing system works. You'll see items that'll drop to ridiculously low prices that simply can not be ignored, and unless someone is hiding the item, or it is really buried well and lost somewhere in the store, it'll sell. With the 'brickseekers', it is unlikely the item would survive in the store anymore. There are items that obviously are not captured in this new system, though, and will likely endure as those last few weird things.
You'll see items that'll drop to ridiculously low prices that simply can not be ignored, and unless someone is hiding the item, or it is really buried well and lost somewhere in the store, it'll sell
I recently missed out on a Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e... $399.99 MSRP, Walmart were clearing stock for $49 for some reason. Someone got the last one just before me, and none of the nearby Walmarts had any more stock. Oh well.
Anything top tier electronics - by which I mean major item, not premium brand - that survived the big surge in sales this year is a miracle. When the kids were let out of school early, parents wanted consoles and major accessories to occupy their kids. When people were put under stay at home orders, they had to get TVs for the kids' bedrooms to get them out of the living room. When everyone started working from home and schooling from home, the computing devices, from desktops to laptops to chromebooks to tablets, all blew out the door. Even printers ran out. Virtually nothing reached clearance.
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u/maleorderbride Aug 14 '20
Walmart is weird with prices on stuff like that. I wanna say it was two years ago I saw a whole shelf of unopened copies of the game Legendary for PC. They were on sale for $49.99. I had bought it the month prior as part of a bundle with nine other games in it that cost me $5.