Reminds me when Sears was going out of business. And when they said everything must go, they LITERALLY meant EVERYTHING.MUST.GO!!!!! Shelves, display items, EVEN THE MANNEQUINS WERE BEING SOLD!!!!
Famous Barr was the same. I went with a friend and when we were there they only had about three different racks of clothes but a ton of rugs and a ton of fur coats. My friend did buy a fur because they were like 75% off
Actually, funny story about Sears. I _just_ bought a raincoat from them for Halloween. I had ordered one from a Chinese seller on Amazon, but it was already half a month late, so I scrambled to find another store online that could sell me a red faux leather trench coat before Halloween, and was surprised to find that Sears still exists as an online store! And they got me my trench coat in time to incorporate it into my costume! No other company or Amazon seller could get me that thing on time.
Yeah our old Sears turned into a decrepid walking Dead looking place after 20 years of sitting are Sears moved from the big box store to a little look like a thrift store sized building and the Sears building remained completely abandoned keep in mind it was an attached building for the mall planet fitness bought part of it but the rest of it was completely walled in then durham sports turned around and bought it and they showed people pictures of the inside and good Lord panels were falling lights were hanging everywhere the electrical was all kinds of mess The best part is it was all still attached to the mall so the power was still on with all these electrical issues it surprising the mall didn't catch fire
Fun fact: Retailers that are closing single locations ship out the high dollar items like consoles, laptops, TV's, etc., to sister locations before the huge sale percentages start. So the PlayStation and Switch cabinets were empty LONG before he got there.
while this is 100% true I'll explain at the end of my comment, if a walmart is closing its doors the high ticket items probably wasn't selling in the first place so they didn't keep it in stock... or theft was way up there so they wouldn't be keeping many high ticket items at the store. Sir I sorry your store closed but everything a store closes in CA, DC, or Washington the prices drop in my store in Florida.
we dont really keep consoles and other high ticket items in high quantity. usually theres only like 5 of each console with the exception of the several dozen we have for black friday rn. they prob just sold out and never reordered them. what id like to see is if they sold the displays or if they just said screw it and cvped them.
You are correct. I remember customers getting really salty about certain things not being on sale "yet" at one store closing I shopped at. A weary manager just flat out told them that certain items were being shipped back to the distributor because they would refund more than the clearance prices. Other things were packed up and sent to a sister store. Some items are actually vendor stocked, they rent the space in the store and the vendors manage the inventory of those items, like the books and magazines.
My husband and I went to Walmart a little while after one of the Deadpool movies came out and we saw a life sized Deadpool cutout sticker on one of the freezer doors. As a massive Deadpool fan, my husband decided he absolutely needed that sticker. We found a random employee, asked if we could have it, and though they were confused as hell, they said they would just end up tossing it anyway so we could have it. This fuckin sticker has stood the test of time and has been moved multiple times. It’s been on a glass shower door, walls, and various closet doors, all while only receiving a small tear in a weird corner area. If you see cool display items that are out of date or are about to be out of date (like past the premiere date of a movie or game) and you want it, ask! The worst thing they can tell you is “no” but usually, they’re happy to not have to dispose of it themselves.
When I was little I was obsessed with The Little Mermaid. When the second movie came out my parents went to our local Hollywood video store brought home the cardboard display for me after the promotion was done. It stayed in my bedroom for about a month and was probably one of the best gift my parents gave me as a child.
To be fair, the majority of those pops shown were already sitting on the shelves long before the store closing. We still have pops that were released during the pandemic falling off the shelves at ours. They seldom have new stuff show up here. Even crazier when they jacked the prices of that old stock up to the same price as the new stuff. If it wasn't moving at $8.99, it still isn't moving at $11.99.
Actually no it's not. Walmarts are oversaturated and tend to operate in middle class and poorer areas to maintain the one-stop cheap shopping. Norwalk isn't a poor area, they're not the Walmart demographic. Also, lots of old Walmarts are being torn down to build new ones. An area is dying when their Dollar General closes.
@@kh91132 Yeah some stores really do just throw away their product instead of giving it away, so people will go dumpster diving at certain stores and you wouldn't believe the haul you can get from stuff that's almost expired.
This reminds me of the slow death of my local K-Mart. It couldn’t compete with Walmart and was thusly always empty, but it took years to die. Great store to be alone and listen to ambient music while perusing half-filled electronic shelves. You could press a call employee button, and surprise, nobody would show!
When our Kmart closed my dad let my sister and I get one thing each. I got a super soaker at like 70% off. My sister picked some random toy. She was mad all summer bc I kept squirting her with it every time she walked outside. Hey when ur like 7 it was the best toy.
What are you talking about, Walmarts not dying, if a Walmart is going "out of buissness" than it's cause it's probaly in city/city suburb where they vote blue no matter who so they let people steal.
My Wal-Mart gave me a BOTW display years ago, they were changing the displays and I just happened to be walking by and said, "this is cool can i have it?", and to my surprise the worker said yes! I still have it and get compliments on it.
Makes sense I used to get some cool displays from there working there. They literally just get thrown out. Signage is fair game aslong as you don't try to re sell it, displays on the other hand they are super strict about if its practically usable they may just slap a clearance sticker on it and sell it or it goes back to the manufacturer no freebies allowed.
Displays and promos always ends up in the bin anyway so either you grab it once the promo is over or it's thrown into the garbage (I work at Walmart, in the Pharmacy section, and that's how it works.)
Those puzzle PC games are 100% for grandparents or older people who own a PC but don't play regular video games. My grandma probably hasn't seen a game console in her life, but owns like 5 of those "I Spy" type point and click games with cheesy murder mystery plots.
ngl those slapped when i didn't have many options in our school's computer lab.... at least until I found Rollar Coaster Tycoon 3 and later installed Quake 3 onto the network drive. lol
This. In the 2000s my Grandma's PC had two kinds of games on it: PopCap games, and hidden object games. Insaniquarium, Bejeweled, Chuzzle, and Zuma. Classics. 😃
Dudes hooked on Walmart and showing us what everyone agrees as a society shouldn’t exist in stores. Good data for Walmart to have in the future honestly.
@@SageHandlesItPóster is addicted to Walmart. Video is evidence of what people don’t want anyways and Walmart should take that into account next time they stock up their stores.
My grandmother worked for Walmart when I was growing up and every time they were going to throw away the old large, hanging cardboard posters for upcoming DVD releases, she’d bring them home for me instead. I still have the massive Pirates of the Caribbean and Star Wars Return of the Jedi posters hanging around and a few of the smaller DVD price versions of a couple of Harry Potter movies.
@@Titus_J Also failed to mention there's literally a second Walmart in the same town. Other side of town but yes, there were 2 and now they downsized to 1.
I remember me and my fiance, when we were in high school, going to the mall and finding out it was the final closing day of a vintage video game store that we loved to frequent. They were selling the wooden panels off the walls and the metal shelving units. Literally anything that wasn't bolted down (sometimes not even that) was being sold. Sad day.
I found this trend for years at many different store closings. The store removes all the “good stuff” and sends it to different stores. Sometimes they send all the clearance and returns from other stores to the closing stores also.
That is true, unless the entire line of stores go out of business... at which point it's still likely the thing you want is sold out. (When that happened, the batteries were sold out but not the radios.)
Had a local grocery store close down basically a block away from me. It was a sad day...as that store had been there for like 40 years and been doing great business. But when your building owner doesn't let you do remodels or any real meaningful improvements to the building. To top it off, jacking up the rent. Yeah, you too, would close up shop to give them the finger. Now there is just an empty shell in a shopping area that is busy and always. Still, a year later, no one has moved in. Tells you whoever is owning the building is asking way too much for the building. Or those who bought it are taking things really slow for whatever reason.
Commercial landlords are notoriously stubborn about adjusting rent in order to get a lease signed. It's their prerogative to be stupid and lose money though.
@joewoodchuck3824 Well, when I wrote that. It was before some other grocery store was going to move in. Though "moving in" is generous. For whatever reason. This new story is allowed to basically remodel the whole building. While the old store could not do that. Yeah. I hear you on that. Still, unsure who they are marketing to. I just hope it is reasonable pricing for the store. Not trying to upscale it and begging to go out of business. No, one isn't really rich in my area. Middle class-ish at best. And a lot of apartments and more thinking of being built on land that used to be houses. Removing homes and replacing them with apartments. Yep. Never going to own anything again.
A grocery store a town over from me was shut down like that, about 4? years ago. Another store tried to move in, and folded almost immediately. It's been empty since. The thing is, the family that owns it also owns most of the commercial & apartment buildings in town. The losses from the largest commercial building in town sitting empty are truly inconsequential to them.
I would buy all those ink cartridges and resell them for a steep discount. You could double your money, AND the buyer would be getting half price off, so a win/win. Maybe those Funko pops could be resold too.
I remember going to the Kmart near my house when it was closing. It was super empty, and my family ended up buying a outdoor table with umbrella and 4 chairs for $15 total. Whole set used to be like $200.
I was in high school when our closed. I bought a Christmas tree for $16 when I move out. It stayed in my parents basement for years until I got married and I remembered I bought it!
Nah they already have a massive inventory system that tracks and reports metrics from every store and item down to the last penny, plus yearly inventory checks to catch whatever got missed by theft or damage, they didn't become a multibillion dollar global corporation by winging it. They already know what is and isn't selling, anything worth selling was already shipped off to another nearby store or sent back to the warehouse. Whatever was left behind is going to go into the trash, donated, or wholesaled.
@@repoman2115I have seen a McDonald's closing, but I live in Mexico. I think it was the first or second to open in where I live, but with the passing of time more locations were opened in commercial areas. It went out of business around the pandemy and I wonder why, the drive-thru was very conveniently placed. Now it's an Autozone
Back then when Walmart was in their prime. Literally a library of gameboy color games and CD albums. They even went way further with popular 60's and 70's music and ancient Jazz CD's. Then there is the demo game console that is securely locked so no one can steal it. Same with music too. Very fancy Headphones securely locked and like 10 buttons to choose from to listen to a demo. Man.... Early to mid 2000's were the best years.
There is a whole load of stores that are up next for closing down, Best Buy, Family Dollar, big lots, Bobs stores, the vast majority of dollar tree locations, and mattressfirm
@@yell0wberryno way Best Buy is going down. They were one of the top survivors during Covid so if they could handle that, they got nothing to worry about. They’re the main tech retailer in America. No other retailer comes close in competition. Maybe Amazon, but u can’t see and try stuff in person at Amazon.
@@Jbread456 target does business with Instacart, I think if they’re smart, they will slowly get rid of their brick and mortar stores and do a lot of their business online
Far cry 3 and blood dragon were fun, 4 was pretty overall meh in my opinion, but I can get a ton of other games and far cry 5 and 6 literally for free with ps plus who tf even buys most games anymore lol
Printers are what they call a loss-leader product. They'll sell you the printer cheap, sometimes even at a loss. Once you buy the printer your locked into buying their ink, which is where they make their money.
@@keithcraig506except half the printers you buy start printing like shit after one or two replacements of cartridges, no matter how much you clean them. The only printer I haven't completely hated is the Eco tank
When places close down for good always ask if you want any display things like signs or things. You can sometimes get them. Once my friend got a entire cardboard funko display shelf setup he took home and gave to a family member who collected funko pops.
Bro, I LOVE puzzle and hidden object games 😭 Those types of games were a HUGE part of my childhood, and I still absolutely adore them despite me being 18 now. Those games are 100% for me!
I loved them too, but haven’t had a pc/CD laptop since 2007. And that’s probably why they’re all on the shelf. A digital access code would be a smart way to keep up with the times
A retailer's dream. All of the things people won't buy at 75% off all visually represented and proven. The next month all those items were removed from the shelves of all the Walmarts across the US and no one noticed.
One time a forever 21 my fiancé worked at was going out of business and they were literally selling everything, including the display tables. Best 75 dollar wooden dinner table ever
My roommate bought a slate topped table that was heavy as ..you could use cutting blades on it and wouldn’t show a mark! We stood on it every Xmas to decorate and became dinner table as well when big dudes were guests lol😝🙏🏻🤔
The person who thought their art would never be appreciated because they made video game display labels for Walmart probably really appreciates you wanting to take that home and put it up 😅
@@TheWrathAbove Being appreciated for doing a good job can of course be nice. In this case however it is like being given a couple of posters to hang on your walls. If people say the posters look cool you still didn't chose the posters or make them. You just attached them to the wall so they aren't really praising you. They are hopefully not even praising you for managing to put the posters up since they should expect you to be able to do something that basic. When making these things they at most have to select a background and put what is essentially a couple of digital stickers they have been given on it. You know the kind of things you praise a small child for doing. It is still work obviously, but it is not more praiseworthy than sweeping the floor or stocking shelves. It is honestly debatable if it even requires more artistic ability than those two other tasks as well.
Lol I have this huuuge coca cola banner. I was working at a fair and it was time to close down, some guys took down the big canvas coke banner folded it and tossed it on the top of a dumpster. I waited about 45 seconds pulled it off the top of the dumpster and stuck it in my car lmao. Its like 2ftx6ft its massive, probably 20lbs + lol.
One of the best moments of my life was when I was superrrrr young and a toy store or a toys r us (can’t remember which) was going out of business and they had things like 75-90% off. I got so many cool toys, legos, and all the cute Sanrio pens and office-y things that were normally outrageously priced. As an adult I think I would somehow be even more excited to encounter that again.
This reminds me of walking through a closing Toys R Us once a week, watching the price cuts go from 50%, to 75%, to 90%. I still find it tragic that it shut down, one of my earliest memories was going to get a vaccine or something and my mom took me to Toys R Us afterwards to pick out a pack of Skylanders (this was back when that was cool). A shame indeed
Was working at toys r Us during the end days; Back of House too (inventory and floor customer stuff). At that time even before closing Skylanders and the Disney one were set to be discontinued. The bikes were the interesting last minute buys on closure.
I've always liked how Walmart starts up in a community, killing small grocery stores, mom an pop tire shops, clothing stores, bakeries and even car shops then close the store leaving the community completely void of any stores at all. Walmart has murdered entire towns but get all upset when a community bans them from starting up.
The more I shop locally, the better service I’ve been given. There’s this one gift shop with hand made items from people around the community and I love going to it every year with my husband for Christmas shopping, and this lovely old lady who owns the place is constantly handing out apple cider and hot chocolate and has a conversation with each and every customer. It really did shock me the first time I ever stepped foot in that place
Don’t say that unless you’ve personally never gone to any other big store because of the prices or the organic shit they got if so stfu you’re apart of the problem
@@winnimusmaximus783I think most people would group those in the same category as walmart. I think the above comment is refering to big corporate stores in general. However, since the video focuses on Walmart specifically, the comment just mentions Walmart as it is the topic discussed.
I had an experience like this when i was probably 10 years old going into the local radio shack right before it closed down. It was right as the company went under and everything was half off. The man in there was very nice and i ended up buying a pair of headphones that id use for all my gaming. I’m 18 now and i still have them today. R.I.P RadioShack
Old fella here, I had the same feeling when my Kmart closed, entering the store I grew up with seemed like a funeral. I bought a few things, spoke to a few very sad employees, then left. Their crisis was worse though, their entire company fell apart
I have never seen a Walmart close. I’ve seen a Walmart move a few blocks to a much bigger location, but never close. This must be a sign of the end times.
Part of it was that they were particularly reliant on cheap stuff from China, which was only cheap because China somehow found a way to exploit a rule saying third world countries didn't have to pay as much tariffs when exporting to the US, so it was not only cheap to make but cheap to ship to the US, which actually costs a lot to do over the Pacific. Biden's Administration told China "yeah, no, fuck off with that BS you're not that poor" a couple years ago and closed the loophole, so suddenly the really cheap stuff was not actually that cheap to ship to the US, which had a knock-on effect on the "discounts" (lower overall prices) Walmart offered, and now people started shopping elsewhere (like online, where the same people are exploiting other loopholes to not pay for the shipping costs or a middle man retailer like Walmart).
@@barrag3463not sure if its that sophisticated, back in 2010 Walmart realized they were loosing customers with a drop in sales and couldn't figure out what was going on. They did a survey and found out that customers didn't want to park a mile, walk a mile, and look a mile for a couple necessities. It was easier to pull up at dollar general and get milk and eggs. So Dollar General made an unexpected fortune from this, and Walmart counteracted with the Neighborhood Market. The other thing is that not only are products made in China, but they did Americans wrong by selling out top name brands to China like Schwinn, Black and Decker, Dewalt, all that stuff is Walmart fake crap
Well you know they decided to let people steal stuff by Epic Proportions by employing self-checkouts. Not really too big of a mystery of why they're closing.
Those puzzle games are absolutely loved by the elderly. Though nowadays they tend to either get them from the Microsoft Store or malware-laden websites rather than physical media
It’s not that they can’t stay open; it’s just that it’s not meeting their shareholders demands. Every time a Walmart opens up in a small town, they run all the small businesses out and then when they close you’re left with nothing but a food and product waste land.
Im from CT. This small(hardly considered a)city has 2 walmarts in it. No reason for that. that city is also revitalizing its urban area with a mall and small businesses downtown. Walmart is just a commerce killer for them.
@@rigityrogwhy make assumptions with no proof? A single google search using the address in the beginning shows that the store closed due to its lease expiring
Local comic store was going out of business, everything for sale. As a joke, I said I needed bookshelves, they for sale too? Guy said yeah, I could take all four Big bookshelves for $20. I was flabbergasted! Said sure, does he need me to help him get all the books out too? Nope, said I could take it ALL for $20z. Book shelves, loaded with Asimov, Clark, bunch of other sci-fi & fantasy authors! Best deal ever, but then I still needed bookshelves for my existing books! 🤣
Yeah, imagine actually playing a game to find out if you would like it instead of listening to a bunch of randos with different perspectives and taste. Such a fool.
When Shopko went out of business my gf and I scored some of their industrial round clothing racks. Super heavy duty rack- way better than the consumer grade ones you can buy. Only cost me 20 bucks each too!
When I worked overseas the first time, all my hygiene (cologne, deodorant, etc.) items was stored in a spinning makeup display stand. My roommate's friend said that they source such items from stores that close down. I'm not ashamed to admit it since I scored a sweet deal on a shelf anyway, especially when I didn't have much money then. And like what he said, display materials in shops are simply thrown away if the shop closes down or when a promotion ends.
Closing stores or other places are sometimes really cool. You can often buy everything there. A restaurant in my village sadly had to close and they sold everything to the bare walls. Chairs, desks, the counter, drink dispenser, kitchen items, even the menu cards. Sadly we weren't there on that day, but I was told it was like a big flea market with almost nothing left at the end. It was a really nice and well known restaurant that sadly had to close short after the pandemic due to having an illegaly employed cook.
I remember when Toy’s R us closed and they sold everything. Literally everything. The shelves, the displayers, the signs, the posters, everything. I think they might have sold the carts too.
I can't see Walmart without thinking about that one Onion skit where there's an active shooter but no one wants to admit they shop at Walmart when calling the police, but even the shooter.
In case anyone’s wondering: those PC games that nobody buys are designed that way. Usually one or two companies who crank out these poorly made PC games month after month and go for quantity over quality. Selling 1mil copies of a single $60 game is pretty good but selling 3million copies of a bunch of random $20 games is a lot easier because you don’t need to hire experienced game devs
First thing I'd look for: Trading cards. Those things can be ridiculous in value, both sealed or some cards in there. Stock up on them, open some, hold and resell the others
@@nicholasfarrell5981 not true, least not according to my friend. He had gone into his closing Wal-Mart and ended up getting close to 30 packs (some individual, some in the boxes, an ETB.)
We had a Walmart close by us and it sits barren all year until a spirit Halloween rents the front of the store for a month. Went to visit it once and the back is desolate, kinda eerie. There’s thank you and birthday cards also pressed into the floor which I found interesting.
I remember this happening to the local Kmart a few years ago, the same one my aunt used to take to get popcorn and icecream at when I was a kid. Such a odd feeling.
Fun fact....the high value items all would of been sent right back to the distribution warehouse or the vendor directly. They won't discount anything they can do returns on back to wherever it came from.
@terpenstine Yeah but the last comment was more of a joke since it used the term "sister location" and now it's flooded with FNAF meme comments. This comment was much more honest, a better fun fact without the cringe.
@@Lively_1185 You do know that "sister location" is an actual term used way before the FNAF stuff right? The comment wasn't a joke but some of the replies were.
@@557deadpool But according to politicians, small businesses are the backbone of this country. Walmart is notorious for running small businesses out and then scalping all they can before they close which results in a food and product waste land.
"Not even a single Switch left" Oh that was opening day, the Scalpers had to make sure no physical store is stocked so they can resell them for 3x the price.
I'm vegan and I've tried every brand of vegan chocolate bars my local grocery store has... except the Mr. Beast bars lol. It's amazing how slapping a RU-vidr's name on something that I find appealing actually makes it completely unappealing.
Earlier this year, there was a Walmart near me in Everett, Washington, that was shutting down, and the day I went, everything in the store was half off. I got myself some nice jeans for winter, a big ZeroWater filter pitcher, and a nice 32-oz stainless steel tumbler to go with the water pitcher. For everyone in my family, I got them Ugly Stik fishing rods and reels. Lastly, by far my favorite find on a random shelf under a bunch of junk was a Western Digital 8TB WD_BLACK D10 external hard drive, which is funny because I saw it in someone else’s cart earlier that day, but they must have put it back, and I lucky enough got to pick it up before someone else did. To me, that day felt like an early Christmas.
I am a firm believer that those PC games are made for the gen-x’ers that dipped their toes into pc gaming but never tried anything serious enough to escape the genres of point-n-click adventure games and Luxor clones. Most of them have little idea that in the early 2000 they could have gotten a nearly infinite selection of those types of games on flash game sites and nowadays can get them on their phones.
I was at a blockbuster closing and still have 50 games/movies in their blockbuster cases. Great memories that today’s generation won’t ever understand. “You had to go to a store to pick a Friday movie?” “Yes son, it was glorious”.
I was born in the late 90s and I remember the joy and endless possibilities I felt while browsing their ps1 games and playing the pinball machine that you played with a bouncy ball and you got the bouncy ball when you lost. It was fun. As an adult, I'd rather just own a game and I don't like most movies so it's kind of pointless for me now, but Blockbuster was so much fun as a kid. Edit: Wait I thought about it more and I also remembered the stress of not being able to decide on what I wanted to get and my mom and siblings getting mad at me as I melted down from stress cuz everyone had already picked their stuff and was ready to go home.... Maybe it wasn't all great lol
@@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty if you’re under 30, I hate to break it to you but you are the generation that’s a lost cause on having any sort of intelligence.
Published August 30, 2023: Walmart is closing one of two locations in Norwalk because of issues negotiating their lease contract. According to a spokesperson, the landlord at the Connecticut Avenue location decided not to renew their contract. A simple search instead of speculations solves the mystery of why 😂
You know why? Cause it takes a bit of intelligence to install them back in your printer 🖨️. Most people are imbeciles and can't even make a peanut butter sandwich without instructions
dude if they did 75% off at the Walmart around HERE- bruh there would be BLOOD spilt. babies CRYING. mothers DECAPITATED- cars of FIRE. CHILDREN in the streets(isles) and just absolute carnage and chaos. not a good idea.
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@@oliver_klozoffreading comprehension must be pretty bad in your area because no where did they say one was closing near them. They were talking about the video
@@jacobarellano2988 just needs a condom. Dicks need condoms. They are closing in many cities across the country due to thieves. My area doesn't have all this locked up garbage so call a 3am post what you must, but at least where I live we pay for what we take out of stores.
@@puffdaddy4537 Not surprising their reading comprehension is that bad so that explains why they buy into the fake news of Walmarts closing due to theft lol
Thank you for actually asking for the random scraps and signs. Too many people just take stuff like that, and it can totally ruin a retail worker's day who had dibs on who got to take them home when they take down the displays. Plus, dishonesty is still dishonest, no matter how small.
@@itssovalentinepeople say Smith's is still around even though I definitely saw it close down. It even looked like the Walmart does in this video. I was sad cuz that was my favorite place to get groceries. They had a way bigger selection than the WinCo next door. I'm just glad Fred Mayer gave all the employees jobs if they wanted them.
I remember the final time I ever got to go to my local Gamestop.😔 The downside was that now I legitimately miss Gamestop, and it will forever be in my heart. The upside? Sonic Colors DS.
Makes me think of when we lost our Sports Authority. One week it was 10% off, then 20, then 25, then 30. When it reached 60, all the good stuff was gone.
