Walmart Dump bins removal :(
03-25-08, 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by dollfins1
damn i'll have to look for that one! anyone else have luck finding this?
One store here has a nice 4 shelf display with all the the titles lined up and stacked together. One of the employees was actually making sure that all of the titles were displayed - spines out - when I stopped by the other day. If they would keep the $5 DVDs and do something like that, it would be great. The dump "bins" suck ass.
03-25-08, 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Brian Shannon
Walmart devalues everything it touches.
I still shop there, though. I'm still in an economic phase in my life where price is king.
03-25-08, 02:26 PM
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Ive never bought anything out of the bins. Actually Ive never boughten a dvd in walmart. But I think the bin might contribute to competitors keeping their prices low, or so walmart wants me to believe.
03-25-08, 02:26 PM
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Whoever wrote that editoral is either completely full of it or is telling a target audience (advertisers not consumers) what it wants to hear. By the same logic, the music industry could have saved itself if only Wal-mart had started selling SACDs at $19.99 a pop.
$5 and under everyday pricing is here to stay, if not at Wal-mart then at Target and Big Lots.
$5 and under everyday pricing is here to stay, if not at Wal-mart then at Target and Big Lots.
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03-25-08, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by RustyOrgan
"Actually Ive never *boughten* a dvd in walmart." - apparently he's never attended school either.
03-25-08, 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Snowmaker
Same here. I think the last one I got was the 2-disk Escape from NY.
03-25-08, 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by fitlissa76
he he he... I caught that too. Just how exactly do you boughten something anyway ?
03-25-08, 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by MrDs10e
LOL a friend of mine had a co-worker who said, "I can't stand being inside Wal-Mart. It smells like poor people.". At first, I thought about what an awful thing to say that was, but then I realized, it really does!
I still shop there, though. I'm still in an economic phase in my life where price is king.
I still shop there, though. I'm still in an economic phase in my life where price is king.
03-25-08, 04:19 PM
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i haven't ever really found anything particular great in the dumps in the last year or so. i did pick up "escape from new york: 2-disc" back when everyone was mentioning it here. before that, my last good find was "before sunset" for $3.88. i think it might've been a leftover from one of their sales.
and since those $3.99 sales have been popping up every few months at WM with pretty good titles, it makes the dump bin titles look all the more boring and unattractive to purchase. couple that with big lots, the relative frequent $3.99/$4.99 sales at BB and CC, the dump bins inventory just gets pushed down further and further. before, i would say "why not?" to getting a certain dvd at $5, but now it's more, "why bother?"
that being said, i've still seen the dump bins at all the WMs in southern cali, with one exception that has been switched over to that large 4-sided shelfing system. and there are ALWAYS people looking through that bin, no matter what day/what time i'm there. so it seems rather foolish to give that up. get rid of the CDs instead if you need more room for blu-ray.
agreed completely. i think a lot of it might have to do with their advertising? if you compare WM commercials with Target commercials, the latter really aims towards that sort of "trendy, hip" vibe, which some might equate with more expensive product? dunno.
and since those $3.99 sales have been popping up every few months at WM with pretty good titles, it makes the dump bin titles look all the more boring and unattractive to purchase. couple that with big lots, the relative frequent $3.99/$4.99 sales at BB and CC, the dump bins inventory just gets pushed down further and further. before, i would say "why not?" to getting a certain dvd at $5, but now it's more, "why bother?"
that being said, i've still seen the dump bins at all the WMs in southern cali, with one exception that has been switched over to that large 4-sided shelfing system. and there are ALWAYS people looking through that bin, no matter what day/what time i'm there. so it seems rather foolish to give that up. get rid of the CDs instead if you need more room for blu-ray.
Where I'm from, there is definitely a different class of people that shop at WM versus Target. Which is funny, because their prices are pretty darn similar on most things...
03-25-08, 04:25 PM
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Anyone who thinks Wal-Mart "smells like poor people" obviously has never been inside of a Big Lots or Family Dollar.
I can't see the $5 bin going away anytime soon. There is usually a line of people waiting for their chance to attack it. Especially around holidays.
I can't see the $5 bin going away anytime soon. There is usually a line of people waiting for their chance to attack it. Especially around holidays.
03-25-08, 04:25 PM
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Whoever wrote that editoral is either completely full of it or is telling a target audience (advertisers not consumers) what it wants to hear. By the same logic, the music industry could have saved itself if only Wal-mart had started selling SACDs at $19.99 a pop.
$5 and under everyday pricing is here to stay, if not at Wal-mart then at Target and Big Lots.
$5 and under everyday pricing is here to stay, if not at Wal-mart then at Target and Big Lots.
03-25-08, 04:36 PM
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But the $5 dump bin had a lot of neat DVDs! What do you guys mean they cost cheaper?! I found some like Artificial Intelligence, Terminator 2, Escape from NY, The Running Man, True Lies, etc...
03-25-08, 04:51 PM
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I don't think the dump bin hurts dvd any worse than the price drop for newer releases. Movies that came out 4 months ago can be had for less than $10 now. I know it's preventing me from buying some new releases. At least with the dump bin, they're usually less popular movies. Someone's got to sell them so it might as well be wal-mart.
BTW, Wal-mart wants to maximize profits too.
BTW, Wal-mart wants to maximize profits too.
03-25-08, 05:29 PM
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I see nothing wrong with the bins. Its a way for sudios to clear stock of titles that are not selling. Best Buy and Circuit City advertise 4.99 and 3.99 titles often. Target has a 5.00 shelf to. What will studios do with stock that is not selling and retailers or even etailers wont stock them? Destroy them to keep people from buying a $5.00 Dvd? I guess, maybe studios should not put out as many titles, limit the release according to demand and hold prices high?
03-25-08, 05:42 PM
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Whats the issue, the word boughten?
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This bought·en (bôt'n) Pronunciation Key
v. A past participle of buy.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/boughten
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This bought·en (bôt'n) Pronunciation Key
v. A past participle of buy.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/boughten
03-25-08, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by .unholy
Devalue DVD in the consumer's mind? Please. If anything devalues the medium here, it's not the fact of dump bins' existence, it's their content: and assortment of shitty titles in full-screen format. Now, who puts all this crap out in the first place, I wonder...
And you just have to love that bit about "more sensibly priced DVDs."
And you just have to love that bit about "more sensibly priced DVDs."
Totally agree. There isn't a Walmart close by...but whenever I go I always enjoy going through the dump bin.
03-25-08, 06:03 PM
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"Results 1 - 10 of about 99,500 for boughten" -Google search
It only shows up 99500 times on google. Its only been around since 1790. I dont think my grammar needed to be corrected
It only shows up 99500 times on google. Its only been around since 1790. I dont think my grammar needed to be corrected
03-25-08, 06:50 PM
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My Wal-Mart got rid of the dump bins and arranged all the $5 movies on shelves over a year ago. I actually bought more since then because I hated digging through the bins and getting damaged DVDs.
Sadly, my days of shopping at Big Lots are over since they decided to take their $3 shelf and put it in the old school Wal Mart style bins; now everything is a cluttered mess and its impossible to find the one or two copies of really good movies they get once in a while.
Sadly, my days of shopping at Big Lots are over since they decided to take their $3 shelf and put it in the old school Wal Mart style bins; now everything is a cluttered mess and its impossible to find the one or two copies of really good movies they get once in a while.
