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by bombcar 259 days ago
Business oriented stores can run this way. Places like McMaster Carr?

Walmart tried to advertise this for decades as “always low prices” which worked pretty well, but even they have clearance (need to rotate shelf space or excess inventory) and rollbacks (price matching someone somewhere).

They do not have Kohls style “50% off everything if you jump through these hoops”.

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Walmart:

rollbacks = raise the price then reduce it and pretend you lowered prices.

clearance = stuff that's been on the shelf for years for barely discounted prices.

Their tech clearances are often ridiculous. Things like 2GB sd cards for $25, marked down from $30 but that $30 price was from 10 years ago when 2GB was considered a large sd card.

Tech is worthless at Walmart; don’t even try.

But “normal” Clearance is sometimes pretty good though I’ve noticed ever since Covid it has gotten worse