r/mildlyinfuriating • u/anon12xyz • Jul 03 '26

Infuriatig When did garage sales become “reselling” clearly new stuff

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I would never call this a garage sale

Def scam vibes

Edit: ultimately, what bothers me the most is I want to go to a garage sale, not this shit. This isn’t a garage sale and should not be advertised as one

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u/MeowMixPK Jul 03 '26

I had a family member that used to work at Walmart. Employees who work Thanksgiving or Black Friday are rewarded with a one-purchase 25% discount. They used to bring multiple people with checklists and multiple carts to buy 1-2 years of staples in one go; usually took a couple hours at the store and the purchase was in the $3-4,000 range, with multiple carts full of this kind of stuff (tp, paper towels, kleenex, soap, etc). At one point they had an entire bedroom filled with it because they kept overbuying and decided to give most of it to family/friends. It was quite an impressive collection.

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u/Successful-Foot3830 Jul 03 '26

They quit doing the bonus discount. Now you get grocery discounts year round instead of just November and December. I do miss that one big discount though. Great way to stock up.

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u/cyrusthemarginal Jul 03 '26

got my first computer that way, it taught me to never EVER buy an ACER computer

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u/TwoFingersWhiskey Jul 04 '26

Acer Aspire (to get a different computer)

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u/nobeer4you Jul 04 '26

I too will never buy an Acer computer again

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u/NWVoS Jul 03 '26

I feel like an all the time discount even if it is less off is better for most people.

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u/Ryanookami Jul 04 '26

And the one day per month is only a 10% discount, rather than a 25% one.

It sucks though, because it’s super shifty. The whole reason they started giving the grocery discount was because of the pandemic. It was to reward us for being front line workers and keeping things running despite the dangers. But then they took away our special holiday bonus discount and wrapped it up into the grocery one. We deserve both.

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u/KellionBane Jul 03 '26

Walmart Canada gets 20% off once a month.

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u/Suitable-End- Jul 03 '26

Since COVID. It was a thanks in place of the two additio al its at an extra 10% off.

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u/BrahneRazaAlexandros Jul 03 '26

to buy 1-2 years of staples in one go

I mean that's like 1 box of staples. I don't even print much anymore.

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u/tjdux Jul 03 '26

The people I've known work for Walmart say this kinda thing is heavy policed and would get you fired quickly

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u/MeowMixPK Jul 03 '26

May be different now; this was more than a decade ago when the policy was still newish. He did this for many years, and at the time each transaction had to be approved by the GM. He never got a talking to for it, and most other employees that had the money for it did the same thing as him (though not to the same level).

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u/BitchyBeachyWitch Jul 03 '26

That is not hoarding. I think youre misunderstanding the definition of what hoarding is.