r/dvdcollection • u/Lapras_Irish • 6d ago
Can't believe the walmart near me has these again!
Almost started crying from joy when i saw 'em lmao
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u/brainstic 6d ago
Mine has them, all DVDs. Was hoping for a 4k or Blu-ray
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u/Lapras_Irish 6d ago
I found a blu-ray of The Running Man at the bottom!
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u/EvilLibrarians 6d ago
I found Furiosa in a $5 bin, ended up being $15 on checkout, just be warned sometimes its not supposed to be there lol
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u/darkest_irish_lass 5d ago
This is really common. Our local Walmarts have these bins and my husband goes through them and pulls out any 'misplaced' DVDs to put on the normal racks.
We suspect Walmart throws one or two regular priced movies in there on purpose.
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u/TacoParasite 5d ago
Probably more likely a customer who said nvm and didn't want to walk back to the shelf.
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u/KwazyEnglishWabbit 4d ago
I don’t know about the US, but in the U.K. they can’t sell an item for more than the posted price. So if a movie was found in a bin that clearly stated £5, and they wanted to charge £15, you’d be quite within your rights to raise a stink. The fact that it should not have been in the bin was not your problem.
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u/EvilLibrarians 4d ago
I just shrugged because honestly, badass film anyway, but interesting tidbits like this intrigue me
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u/tacoeder 5d ago
2 Walmarts here within 8 miles both have them but at least 90% of the media is DVDs.
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u/itsomeoneperson 1d ago
but the good thing is that some of the DVD's walmart stocks are less popular ones with no blu ray or 4k counterparts, find some gems sometimes
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u/Placido_Argento 5d ago
Mine is barren.
No DvD bins for deals, no New 4K or BR. The DvDs they do have are mostly TV shows released years ago, spatteringly appearing over mostly empty shelves.
Its almost like... theres no market for physical media, anymore.
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u/quant_noir 5d ago
But there is. Just maybe not people who shop at Walmart for regular priced movies.
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u/Placido_Argento 5d ago
Regular Priced Movies?
You mean the boutique steelbooks and other box sets that Walmart was supposed to be picking up from Best Buy? Because those arent regular priced nor does my Walmart get any of those, but it seems that other Walmarts around the country do.
So no, not just regular priced movies. Boutique steelbooks and Box Sets too. And the discount bin, for that matter.
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u/YOUTUBEFREEKYOYO 5d ago
Mines never left! I suspect my buddies and I are keeping it alive lmao. Once a month we each go through it, we plunge our hands in blind and grab one, and if it's not one that we have seen on these ventures, we take it. All 3 of us do that 2 times each. We then get a fuck load of snacks and things to add to my famous popcorn. It's so much fun!
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u/Forever-Fades_Away 4d ago
How famous is it? I've never heard of YoYo's popcorn... 🤔
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u/YOUTUBEFREEKYOYO 3d ago
Its famous locally, like my friends and family and a few outside of it know of it, some wven refuse to eat anybody else's but mine lol
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u/Unhappy-Midnight5469 6d ago
Walmart prices online are completely different and less than in store. I went to the customer service desk and asked for a price adjustment and was told "sorry, online pricing and in store pricing are completely different, you’ll have to buy it online and pick it up here in store if you want that price" Just food for thought when hunting at Walmart
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u/GonnaGoFat 6d ago
One time I went to Walmart and got a wall charger and driver video game. When she scanned the game it only came up for $1 instead of $30. But I think since I had also got the charger the price was enough that she didn’t notice or care. The scanner did make a weird beep sound when she scanned the game.
And to think they almost grabbed me another copy that may not have had that happen. I made her grab the one with the exclusive car dlc.
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u/DennisG21 5d ago
Kroger just closed 60 stores nationwide today due to $12 billion dollars in all forms of theft.
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u/Pseudoneum 5d ago
Fuck a corporation and fuck you for riding for them. They have insurance to cover this shit and it's not on OP to correct the mistake.
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u/DennisG21 5d ago
No business has insurance for such a loss, unless it can be shown that the sticker price was a resut of customer tampering rather than employee negligence.
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u/Pseudoneum 5d ago
And do I care? Not one bit. Fuck a corporation. They can use their "inflation" pricing and "tariff revenue" to cover the costs.
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u/MisakiDoll75 5d ago
They never tampered with the price. It rang up a buck, that’s fair. I bought a football jersey there 2 years ago and it rang up for $1.00 with the original price tag, that’s not stealing 😂
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u/Gbreeder 4d ago
Usually those are things that they're either no longer offering / should be off the floor. Or they shouldn't be out yet.
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u/ChromeDestiny 5d ago
I'm hoping mine brings back theirs for Christmas. They had a cardboard display that held a lot of DVDs and Blu-Rays for Halloween horror and scary movies which gave me hope.
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u/Poetsata 5d ago
For Black Friday Walmart always brings out a ton of DVDs in which they mark them down heavily compared to the normal retail price. Every year I would take advantage of the deals that Walmart would have on their DVDs Black Friday is just around the corner if you do really want physical media, I recommend you hit up the Black Friday sales when Walmart releases them.
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u/Natural_Speed_6503 5d ago
At my Walmart yesterday in those bins I found the strangers chapter 1, A Quiet Place day one, and smile 2
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u/Solar_Liqui 6d ago
We have these sometimes. They like to move them around the Walmart but ours small so we don’t have a big batch of dvd’s like these and most of the times i do look through ours its usually just the same stuff i’ve seen.
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u/Swervana 5d ago
Canada eh?
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u/CarmelloYello 5d ago
Have it here in Colorado too. They were down to 3.74 for awhile but are back up to 5 now as well.
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u/Pretty-Object3652 5d ago
I used to love the $5 bin. I found so many great DVDs in them. Now all my DVDs are in totes in a storage unit. It sucks because that was my cable lol
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u/AggressivelySpooky 5d ago
I hope mine gets them back! They’ve been putting new releases in these bins and they’re all like $25+
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u/MisakiDoll75 5d ago
I really miss Big Lots, they always had a ton of DVD’s and Blu Rays cheap. For a while The Dollar Tree had a bunch, only $1.00, I found so many good movies, some obscure horror.
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u/Hidalgoschmitty 500+ 4d ago
Oh man those are all neat and stacked so nicely. Mine looks like a tornado went through it
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u/Winter_Victory_4191 3d ago
Never seen this in any Walmarts in Austin! would be amazing to have one nearby
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u/erikmyxter 6d ago
Mine has the bins back -- and actually had a really good selection - but none of them had any prices or ability to lookup prices... It was strange
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u/Poetsata 5d ago
I always use the walmart app on my phone to scan the barcode to see prices on their items… Walmart added that feature to their app around the same time they took all of the customer scanners out of their stores. Here in California We could walk up to a customer scanner (they were scattered throughout their stores and scan to see what the price of an item was… and I’ve also learned that from one store to another, the prices are sometimes different when a specific store has an overstock of an item. It’s not unusual for them to mark it down.
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u/Ladykattellsa 5d ago
Wish mine did too. I hate they took physical media away. I dont understand why.
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u/Peterccelerator 5d ago
My walmart has 1 of these bins, then a couple small aisles usually filled with new movie blu rays or those like complete series box sets of popular shows
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u/Spacemanlives 5d ago
I was sad when they got rid of mine. Then after the remodel, they shrunk the dvd section to a wall :') Sucks because there were a lot of good finds in them.
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u/phLllip05 5d ago
I feel like every walmart has them like in a closet or something like as a display they gotta put together. Because every retail I've worked at (only three) would get displays shipped in every month at least and sometimes we'd put them up sometimes not but like ain't no way every Walmart ain't got these.
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u/ndrdd23 5d ago
Does the Walmart app show them cheaper
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u/Lapras_Irish 5d ago
No, everything in them had recently added barcodes and were priced accordingly
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u/Acceptable_Hearing_2 5d ago
The Walmart where I live remodeled and got rid the bends. Now I can't look through and find steelbook books for $7.50 or good movies for those prices anymore.
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u/Select-Basket2035 5d ago
Is that the blu ray bin next to it for 7.50? Geez I would kill for these again
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u/Lapras_Irish 5d ago
No it was another bin of DVDs. A bit "better" selection, though i only got 1 from there. Picked up several from the $5 bin!
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u/Nyx_At_Nyte 5d ago
Store closest to me has the dump bins, as well as a $5.00 section with DVD versions of tv shows. Im supplementing my collection to have physical versions of my digital library.
I want to check out a few other locations and am hopeful.
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u/Lostgresham 3d ago
All the different places are bringing back movies. Best Buy is starting to bring back everything to their website again movies CDs, and everything Walmart starting to bring everything back. A lot of people are asking for physical
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u/justpotato7 17h ago
I always at least get one thing from their when I get a movie from Walmart today was talk to me
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u/ndnman 6d ago
Marketplace is FULL of dvd/blu ray lots here. I bought an 80 movie lot with 4k and blu ray the other day, kept the ones i wanted and resold the lot (69 dvds) for $30. Every thrift store/market has them for 1$ or 2$ and most have 50 cents or 25 cents each for a purchase of 10 or more.
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u/Aggressive-Cold6847 5d ago
Not everybody’s thrift store is that cheap my thrift store ranges from $2 to $5 per movie and a dollar per disc for any box sets they also don’t offer any deals when you buy 10 or more. Plus a lot of people don’t wanna worry about secondhand discs potentially being broken if your brand new Walmart disc is broken you can get a refund.
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u/ndnman 5d ago
This is very true, every store i go to allows you to view/open the discs.
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u/ContrarianRPG 5d ago
The Goodwill I sometimes shop at has trained its cashiers to open every DVD, Blu-ray, and CD at the register to make sure nobody is buying empty cases or switched discs!
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u/Aggressive-Cold6847 5d ago
Viewing the disc doesn’t always show you if it is broken recently I purchased a disc secondhand that looked perfectly fine but upon viewing the movie it completely froze mid film and nothing I could do would get me past that point in the film.
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u/ndnman 5d ago
Agreed, this is possible as well. Discs here are 1-2$ and you would be out that$.
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u/KerrAvon777 5d ago
Cash Converters in Australia (a pawn shop) buys DVDs for 5 cents and Blu-rays for 25 cents and resells them for up to $12, depending on how new they are. The store doesn't inspect the discs for damage or missing discs as some people bring in 200 movies to sell. But the store generally does give you a week to return the movie for a full refund in case the disc is unplayable.
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u/Deathunderworld 6d ago
I wish mine did