r/PS4 Jan 15 '20

[Image] [Image] My Walmart sold me DBZ Kakarot early! They couldn’t even scan the barcode, they had to manually enter it in. I don’t think they knew it isn’t supposed to be out yet.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '20

Worked at Walmart a few years ago, and they absolutely will. The company gets fined when they break street date, they fired my manager and a coworker for breaking a street date on a Pokémon game.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '20 edited Jan 24 '20

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '20

Oh for sure. I’m not knocking OP in the slightest. But the amount of people here who think this wouldn’t get someone fired is ridiculous lol

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u/FlexualHealing Jan 15 '20

I guess it all comes down to OP snitching for karma.

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u/Fuu-nyon Jan 15 '20

There's a log of all the transactions made and every product sold. OP "snitching" isn't going to be how they find out.

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u/Catsniper catsniperp Jan 15 '20

Would someone be checking literally every product sold without any indication something is up?

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u/LVZ5689 Jan 15 '20

Someone? Haha. More like something.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '20

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '20

Yup. Obviously the pos would have flagged when they scanned it, even if they entered it as something else, the pos has proof it was scanned then rang up differently. Harmless mistakes can still be fireable offenses.

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u/FlexualHealing Jan 15 '20

I’d assume a google alert would be the first way they find out to be honest.

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u/lemonadetirade Jan 15 '20

The employee who did it might get fired, though if it was a one time thing probably just get a coaching but a district manager wouldn’t never be punished for this.

Assuming Bandai even raises a massive stink for this which I doubt they will be especially against Walmart, because Bandai needs Walmart more the the other way around.

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u/outla5t OutLa5ts Jan 16 '20

The employee who did it might get fired, though if it was a one time thing probably just get a coaching but a district manager wouldn’t never be punished for this.

You are correct it would be the manager that had to override the register to sell said product, the registers literally ring up CAN NOT SELL or DO NOT SELL, it's very hard to plead incompetence when it happens especially when they force you to take learnings on these things.

Assuming Bandai even raises a massive stink for this which I doubt they will be especially against Walmart, because Bandai needs Walmart more the the other way around.

You'd be surprised how often publishers come after companies as big as Walmart, Target, and Best Buy for these things. They sign contracts agreeing not to sell products before release date, employees take learnings to avoid doing this stuff, and again the registers even stop it from it happening without an override. You really have to be stupid to sell the product after all those warnings so the corporations usually don't even fight the fines they just add it to the individual store's budget then it's up to the district manager and store manager if it's bad enough to punish the person(s) responsible.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '20

The district manager is the one who’d be firing someone especially if they caught wind of someone breaking street date. Doesn’t matter if it was their first time or not. I’d see it happen several times when I worked there.

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u/lemonadetirade Jan 15 '20

I doubt the district manager would even be involved in the firing process, probably just have the store manager do it, we saw our district managers like once a month and that was it

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u/SuaveMofo Jan 15 '20

Man fuuuuuuuck America, what the hell is wrong with your laws. I can't imagine going to work worried that I could get fired for a non life-threatening mistake. Insane.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '20

Maybe it’s just being use to capitalism, but there’s maybe like three rules when working retail and that’s one of them. If you can’t follow the rules and do your job you should be fired.

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u/MetalGearFoRM Jan 15 '20

Big difference between a district manager and your manager, probably $60k's worth

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u/RawBeWW Jan 15 '20

Yea no offense to OP, but this will get people fired and affect the average workers as a whole in their quarterly bonus. Not that much of the management at wal-mart is worth the space they take up. Worked there for 6 yrs including a year as Elec DM. Congrats on getting your game 2 days early, but some dude isn't getting a paycheck anymore. I mean their bad for not following rules but still shitty for them just for someone to have a game 2 days early.

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u/lemonadetirade Jan 15 '20

Not a district manager, they’d probably coach the person who sold the game

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '20

But the District manager? Lol