Walked into work to find this sitting there.
Posted Oct 29, 2011, 3:08 PM UTC
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Listen up buddy, I want you to remain calm, but there is like an 80% chance that a 70 year old man with a mustache and an eye-patch is inside that box with a gun.
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SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!
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Really should have poked some airholes in there.
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a cardboard box?
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ENEMY BADGER SPOTTED!
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Huh? It's just a box.
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Hold on, "SNAAAAAAKE!" gets a bunch of upvotes, but another much more relevant quote from the same game gets all these downvotes? Shape up, assholes.
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Here here.
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I'll be aware. O.O
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He'll have to sit through eight hours of cut-scenes before that happens though.
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Wow, a pallet with a "Do not double stack" sign that's not actually double-stacked. Now I've really seen everything!
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Really? Have you seen a man eat his own head?
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Yes but only once.
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This is the internet after all.
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Goatse style?
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What if a time travelling cannibal goes back in time and eats his own head. Does that count?
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Probably best to be a time travelling cannibal and go into the future for the whole 'eating own head' thing.
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then you could eat your own head many times. just go far far into the future and work your way back.
Excellent thinking. You should create a business card calling yourself "Time Travel Consultant." But you probably already did that tomorrow.
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That depends. Which head are we talking about?
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So this is how leaked copies get out...interesting
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Its nearly impossible to take anything out of the Walmart warehouse without alarms going off. Most early shipments are leaked by the drivers and direct from factory.
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Oh yeah, I'm sure they're fit to keep the Crown Jewels.
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As a former WalMart "receiving associate", I've seen dozens of video games, movies, camcorders and cameras be taken out by other associates without any complication. It's all about that sleight of hand. And wearing baggy pants.
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Agreed. Slight of hand is a big part, but also ghost pro
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More upvotes.
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Guess it depends on the facilities. Our store was fairly new so the managers had something to prove and watched our every move. There were alarms set up in the break room, bathrooms, entrances and docks.
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That's a bit more hardcore than the stores I worked at. The easiest way for it to happen is while unloading. Whoever's throwing the truck unpacks the item, stashes the item in the warehouse, and tosses the box into the baler (out of sight from the camera). Then they stuff the stashed item down their pants on the way out from work.
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I wish we had them going into the back bathrooms...damn there is a lot of theft that happens in there.
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That would go off if what? You could just take the disc out of the packaging and not have to worry about any security devices. If you want to steal things easily, that's how you do it. My friend got an original Xbox out of Best Buy by wearing really baggy sweatpants and just holding onto the console (which he took out of the box in car audio) with his hands in his pockets (the console being between his legs).
EDIT: Just curious - are the downvotes because you don't think that's how some security systems work or because people don't like the fact that someone I know stole a video game console almost 10 years ago?
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I can attest that after a few years they would stop giving a shit/being able to give a shit and you'd have had free reign. Got my first Xbox Live subscription that way/
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we had a new guy (was there maybe 3 days) who decided to write up a claims slip on a Touch. then he went back and pocketed the ipod, but left the slip (with his initials) in the bucket. yeah, he got caught right away.
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Talking about nerd decor reminded me that I actually brought home several of the new release signs that went outdated. They made us give to charity in return however, which is nice. Ended up paying $10 for a pair of them.
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Why did it take 2 months to review the footage? Talk about procrastination.
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My wife purchased an item for in-store pickup. I picked it up. I described the item. They went and got it. (payment was done online). I walked out of the store.
I never told them who I was. I never showed any ID. They gave me a receipt, but I walked out of the store with a huge box in a cart without being stopped (the online pickup is at the back of the store. I had to walk through the store and skipped the registers to exit).
"nearly impossible" for employees to steal stuff?
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Same thing happened to be. Bought some xbox controllers online. Walked into the store, told them I was picking up my controllers , they gave them to me without saying a word to me, and I turned around, and walked out the door
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it's called the 5 finger discount...
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They're not taking it from the warehouse, they're taking it from the back of the store, before it gets displayed.
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I'd say it's more likely the drivers. I worked in one of those factories for a while and the security measures they take there are ridiculous. The one I worked at in particular wouldn't even let people bring in their cellphones, for fear that pictures of stuff would leak.
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the center I work at had a huge problem with theft about 6 years ago. They really clamped down on security after that.
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i dont think its the drivers. almost anything of high value has security tape on it (DS and ipods for example), and the only people who unseal them are the stockers.
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I may or may not have stolen CoD 4 at my warehouse with broken security cameras.
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how was it?
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Pretty bad ass game. At the time the game just came out.
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Not true.
Walmart doesn't always get their shipments directly from suppliers. I worked at a warehouse that unloaded trailers from suppliers, re-loaded them into different trailers, and sent them out to walmart stores.
Granted it was mostly stuff from china, I only worked there for 2 weeks as a temp, so I'm not sure if DVDs/games came in the same way. But I did see a lot of TV's, DVD players, mixed in with the 90% Seasonal stuff (Was during x-mas rush).
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I was with asset protection at the time and help to bust some drivers for doing this shit.
What is completely dumb about this is that these are shipped with an ASN (Advanced Shipping Notice) so upon receiving the inventory is automatically entered into our store inventory. Operations is very specifically told NOT to audit these shippers. So I said watch how many fucks I give and recovered upwards of $75,000 in lost product just in a year. I did so by instructing the Directs Receiving associates to audit the ASN on every movie and game shipper before receiving. The store's shrink went from half a million dollars to 125,000 after my first year.
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To elaborate, scene groups usually have a member that's in a position where he handles things like this. Like a factory worker, lorry driver, or warehouse employee. They get him to steal a disk, copy it, and upload it. That's how pirate copies of games/movies get out before street dates.
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Seriously. I had a neighbor who worked at a disk maker who used to bring me home dozens of games at a time. I had Baldurs Gate beaten a month before it was even released.
The downside was the pile of crap games I had to go through to find the good games.
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It says do not put out on display before 11/08/11 It doesn't say do not sell before 11/08/11 Anyone catching my drift?
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I'm Scottish and it's more than two months after 11/08/11. Please send me MW3 and I'll report back to you Americans.
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Let's fuckin' do this.
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Haha, I'll surely have to attempt to buy it later on. Let's see what happens.
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In all seriousness though, how often do you buy a game before the release date? Is this your first year on the job to find something like this? Is your boss cool with it?
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We aren't allowed to sell the games even to employees before the street date. Hell, I couldn't buy Batman: AC when my shift ended at 11pm the night before release. Had to wait an hour just to buy it.
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My store forbid employees from even purchasing big titles on release day. Especially the overnight staff (which I was).
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buy a game before the release date
The SKUs aren't active until the time and date of release. Big stores can't sell them, so the only way they'd really leak from them is theft. Smaller stores tend to be the ones breaking street dates.
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This, most wal-marts have the SKU in the computer already, but if you try to ring it up before release date it will kick it out of the transaction
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It's never ever okay to do this in any retail store. Instant termination.
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any major* retail store
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At Target stores, the POS will prompt that the item cannot be sold due to the release date not arriving yet. You couldn't sell it even if you tried.
Although sometimes the SKUs will be active a day or two early and people will be able to buy them (but this rarely occurs and generally happens with CDs and not video games).
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Sadly, I've had the opposite as well. Went to buy a game at 12:05, still didn't accept it.
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More than likely the UPC isn't entered into the system and the cash register wont scan it until after the date. Back when I worked at walmart, on black fridays, none of the specials were scannable till the clock hit 12:00, to keep people from trying to buy the items earlier than everyone else.
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Tell woodysgamertag, $5000 for 20 copies
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Gotta pay the minimum price of a few hundred before I sell it to someone with that name! (plus a hefty tip, ofcourse.)
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He's very reputable on YouTube, search him up!
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reputation on youtube ಠ_ಠ
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Means nothing of course, but he is an honorable family man
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You work at Walmart? I worked there once.
My condolences.
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Ditto. First job I had was seasonal Wal-Mart...in the toy department...ಠ_ಠ
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Care to elaborate as to why it's so bad?
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Walmart is somewhat notorious for treating their employees like slaves.
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Ah. I figured it was that, but was wondering if there was more.
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Couldn't be as bad as working at Best Buy.
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POP means point of purchase. It's a display where the games will go.
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This, (or POS-Point of sale) I place this stuff in stores as part of my job.
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Point-of-sale is the till, isn't it?
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Well, here it means the displays.
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Yes, yes it is.
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To the top!
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The thing is , if you as a member of staff even try to take one and get caught you will be into a world of legal pain, you would get destroyed.
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I have worked stock crew at many places, you will always get a good amount of overstock on anything that sells good. If one of those items appears broken beyond repair you scan it off and " throw it away". I've never done it with a video game, but I eat a lot of yogurt.
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Man, the porn industry has such weird terms they use.
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Hell, they will watch broken merchandise burn before they will let us take it home.
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Yup, when I worked there if something so much as had a small hole in a fold in the packaging, TO THE DESTROYER WITH YE! We constantly accidentally "ripped" packaging while "unboxing" food, free lunch every day.
They also had wienies that went out of date and had a bbq for employees one day without telling them.
Everyone got sick.
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Haha. Reminds me of last week when we had a cookout for the employees. Boy that was a good moral booster. Free hamburgers, hotdogs, chips, and beverages. The beat thing? The store manager cooked it all for us. What a day.
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I'm sorry that you work at walmart, been there done that...10 to 7 am fuck that.
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Retail isn't that bad, if you're not stuck on the registers or service desk (seriously, the WORST places to work in retail). Working at Kmart years ago was much better than several office gigs I've had. Pay wasn't stellar, but it was low-stress and sometimes enjoyable/peaceful.
Especially Kmart - they have far fewer customers/crazy people in the store at any given time so you can literally just do your own thing in peace and quiet for most of every shift.
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Overnight stock is bad as well. Especially when your store is understaffed and being give 14 hours of stock to finish in 8. Kind of leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
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one of the few perks of working Logistics, eh?
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Exactly! One of the few.
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WHERES THE GODDAMN SKYRIM BOX!!!!
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POP = point of purchase. Just a display stand.
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Holy jebus that's a lot of Call Of Duty? How you gonna play them all?
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I'm Ron Burgundy?
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You could totally steal those packs of Pampers.
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Hey, my store got one of those, too.
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The pallet didn't have games. It's only the headphones and other accessories to go with it.
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It contained 4 Xbox MW:3 Themed bundles along with Eight themed controllers.
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I'm sorry you work at Walmart.
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Don't worry - they fire good and bad workers left and right, for no reason. He won't be there much longer.
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Don't tell anyone who you are, i was told that i could be fired from walmart for taking pictures of ANYTHING in the store.
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TAKE 1!!! just 1...
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Who knew that stores get their video games BEFORE the release date!!
This isn't even games, it's a CoD-themed accessory stand thing.
Actually it may very well be the games... it's a half pallet display loaded with games. I used to work at walmart and they got these for movies and shit all the time and IIRC they came loaded.
It's not. POP is marketing
I worked at target and I can say that theirs did NOT come loaded.
I work at Target and the shippers for Star Wars bluray, and Gears 3 both came preloaded.
Unlike the damn DVD shippers that get delivered for black Friday. Those things are preloaded to a nice 300 lbs of death. I do not miss working for that company!
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It's a decoy care package
It's both. You really think they need an entire pallet for a stand?
If they wan't to have a really fucking sweet stand.. yeah
Maybe if it was one of the ones that comes with the whole TV/360 Combo with the controllers and everything, that'd kick ass. It would be even better if they did this.
wan't?
wut
Its the easiest way to move these types of fixtures.
Not that it really matters, but the games are in there. We received similar looking pallets for Gears of War 3, Dance Central 2, and Battlefield 3. There may be some other crap in there as well.
Same as music. A lot of retail music stores (Dare I say, Record Stores) have the big releases days before the release date.
Also: books. Also: pretty much everything.
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That was a good way to put it, thanks
retail music store? like itunes but in person? wat
i, too, have them days before release (usually weeks even).
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people still buy CD's or other "Hard Copy" forms of music AND have to leave their house to do it!?!?!?
when i worked at walmart we usually got games 2-3 weeks in advance.
the OP's pic is just a cardboard display probably holding MW3 controllers and headsets.
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The Target where I live put the computer version of Portal 2 on the shelf two days before it came out. Sadly I didn't have a decent computer at the time. btw I've seen the same Target do this with books.
I used to work at Target and got the complete Rock Band 2 set a week before launch.
Fuck the rules.
At least we know the DLC is ready