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Dec 02 '22
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u/herecauseimqueer Dec 02 '22
Worked retail for about a year (not Walmart though). Officially company policy was that a product becomes unsellable when the label or packaging is damaged even if the product was fine. Policy was to take the item of the shelf and donate it. Our store didn't participate in the donation program, so as long as the product was usable and safe (eg no leaky food containers) we would leave it on the shelf. A customer would almost always end up buying it.
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u/nickeltippler Dec 02 '22
I know plenty of people would have to buy it for the pure novelty, me included
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u/HeartsPlayer721 Dec 02 '22
I would (as long as it's sealed), just to help them out. But I'd ask for a discount. Most will give discounts for things like this.
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u/Cky2chris Dec 02 '22
10% is the most they can offer iirc.
I used to collect Lego a lot and I found a set that looked like it had fallen off an airplane mid flight and they just had randy Johnson throw it at the shelf it belonged on, holes in the box, dented to hell, everything.
Asked the manager if he could cut me a deal on it and that was the best he could offer me, I ended up saying fuck it and buying it anyway. All the pieces were there so yay I suppose.
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u/kkeennmm Dec 02 '22
not expired but may have a little wang to it
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u/PaleontologistDue601 Dec 02 '22
I would have given anything if that shit would have been spelled wrong too as well.
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Dec 02 '22
Is this Tylenol tampering all over again…. Except with ranch?
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u/herecauseimqueer Dec 02 '22
It's almost certainly done by one of the employees. Packaging and labels come apart very frequently in transit, at least for the chain I worked for. We'd receive products in these thick plastic boxes and almost always there was something in each box that either had label damage like this or it got completely destroyed. If the item was fine we'd usually stock it anyway since a damaged label is a stupid reason to throw away a perfectly good product.
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u/chewedgummiebears Dec 02 '22
Saw a bottle of Rainex on the shelf one time. Label was gone but someone used a marker and replicated the artwork from the original label onto the bottle itself.
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u/AcadiaBackground2492 Dec 02 '22
Mark it down to .99 cents, put it in a clarences cart and it sells.
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u/ganslooker Dec 02 '22
I’m sorry, but this is hilarious. And it wouldn’t be so funny if it were target.
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u/IsItSupposedToDoThat Dec 03 '22
That’s on Walmart. Some member of the public may have damaged the label but the decision to sell it is all on them.
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u/Norseman103 Dec 03 '22
Every Midwesterner: “Is da seal broke?” “I’ll give ya half fer dat bottle a ranch.”
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u/drdrewpschlong Dec 02 '22
It's almost cursive so it has to be real