Back and still alive from Boxing day at Walmart

[ryoohki]

LOL Walmart opened at 1pm here in Québec, there was at least 300 people outside waiting (our city have about 35,000 people top LOL), they had about 10 Disney/Buena title for 2 for 30$CAD (15$ each), in about 5 minutes, the only stuff that was left was the crap (that snake movie...)

They had a 18$ HD DVD deal with Paramount title. I left 2 hours after , they maybe sold about 3-4 films top...

They are 0 HD presence here in Repentigny, the only thing people have are PS3 or HD DVD Add on and the recently released Venturer at 199$. People have to go about 30 minutes outside the city to reach a big electronics store...

Personnally i got AvP for 19.99$CAD at HMV witch was done from 34.99$ then down to 26.99$ near Xmas and now was 19.99$...

There was a UBER long file at Eb Games and Canadian Tire(store witch sells HouseHold Stuff, tools and autopart)

[Banjo]

I bought a bunch of FOX/MGM movies at Future Shop for $19.99 each. I also got POTC 3 for $24.99 instead of $34.99.

I went to Wal-Mart, they had no signs for the 2 for $30 sale or anything. They still had the regular Blu-ray stand but there was no sign of any changes to it.

So I thought, they screwed this one up. I'm heading out for Future Shop then and therefore, I bought a bunch of movies.

I also got Knocked Up (single disc edition) for $7.99 and Children of Men for $5.99 at HMV's door crashers event at 8am this morning.

[Leon Kennedy]

I went to WalMart in Toronto and it was too crowded. I was lucky to get The Prestige but most of the movies on sale were gone. There were so many empty slots on the Blu-ray side of the rack. Then I went to the other side of the rack where the HD DVDs are and they were still full

I'll go back tomorrow to check if they refilled that rack. I might pick up a few more because $15 a piece is a steal of a deal.

I also picked up The Simpsons Season 2 & 3 on DVD for $14.99 each.

From Futureshop I bought Rio Bravo, The Searchers and Letters From Iwo Jima. I almost picked up Speed, AVP, transporter 1 & 2 and Superman Returns but I would probably be broke and won't be able to buy and new Blu-ray movies or PS3 games for a while.

[ryoohki]

Originally Posted by Banjo

I bought a bunch of FOX/MGM movies at Future Shop for $19.99 each. I also got POTC 3 for $24.99 instead of $34.99.

I went to Wal-Mart, they had no signs for the 2 for $30 sale or anything. They still had the regular Blu-ray stand but there was no sign of any changes to it.

So I thought, they screwed this one up. I'm heading out for Future Shop then and therefore, I bought a bunch of movies.

I also got Knocked Up (single disc edition) for $7.99 and Children of Men for $5.99 at HMV's door crashers event at 8am this morning.

Movies where not there, they were in the Main Alley with the big Yellow and Red Boxes saying BOXING DAY BLOWOUT SALES , with the DVD's...

[Leon Kennedy]

Originally Posted by Banjo

I bought a bunch of FOX/MGM movies at Future Shop for $19.99 each. I also got POTC 3 for $24.99 instead of $34.99.

I went to Wal-Mart, they had no signs for the 2 for $30 sale or anything. They still had the regular Blu-ray stand but there was no sign of any changes to it.

So I thought, they screwed this one up. I'm heading out for Future Shop then and therefore, I bought a bunch of movies.

I also got Knocked Up (single disc edition) for $7.99 and Children of Men for $5.99 at HMV's door crashers event at 8am this morning.

I'm pretty sure all Disney/Touchtone movies are on sale because I had the same problem locating that 2 for $30 display.

[Banjo]

Originally Posted by ryoohki

Movies where not there, they were in the Main Alley with the big Yellow and Red Boxes saying BOXING DAY BLOWOUT SALES , with the DVD's...

That's what I was looking at first... but apparently they didn't stock any with Blu-ray Discs in it. All were DVDs and I looked around. Nothing except for the regular Blu-ray display stand.

[zak88lx]

My local Wal-Mart was the same, they had no Blu-ray titles in the advertised Boxing Day aisle stacks.
I grabbed all the Blu's I was interested in from the regular section and I took them over to the self scanner. Only 1 title came up at $15 (Rambo First Blood) so I bought it.

I went over to Future Shop and bought quite a few at $19.99:

- Behind Enermy Lines
- Dawn of the Dead
- Kingdom of Heaven
- X-men The Last Stand

Zak

[ryoohki]

Originally Posted by Banjo

That's what I was looking at first... but apparently they didn't stock any with Blu-ray Discs in it. All were DVDs and I looked around. Nothing except for the regular Blu-ray display stand.

It seems that FS sales was better... and better organised

[zak88lx]

Originally Posted by ryoohki

It seems that FS sales was better... and better organised

That's the problem with these sales.
The flyer shows a picture of 6 Blu titles at 2 for $30 and above that it says "AND MANY MORE!"

The Wal-Mart staff have not been told what other titles are on sale and no list is provided.

The same thing happened at Future Shop when they had the BOGO.
A BOGO list was not provided to the consumers and the staff had no clue what titles were included.

Zak

[Banjo]

Originally Posted by zak88lx

The same thing happened at Future Shop when they had the BOGO.

A BOGO list was not provided to the consumers and the staff had no clue what titles were included.

Zak

Oh yes, that's what happened. I remember when I went there and I was like, huh? The Future Shop HQ screwed up big time.

[Banjo]

Originally Posted by ryoohki

It seems that FS sales was better... and better organised

In a way... but at the local Future Shop, they certainly did not put them on a display for everybody to see and not all were labelled $19.99.

But this time I got smart with them. What I did was type down the names of the movies, printed it out and brought it with me in case they didn't do enough of a good job. They did okay, but they didn't mark all of the titles to $19.99 as they were supposed. Plus they put a lot of FOX/MGM titles on some shelves but that's because they are running out of room to stock Blu-ray and HD DVD. People could had easily missed these movies because they're not obvious to the people passing by.

Thankfully, they were all already priced $19.99 at the checkout.

[Nathan_Drake]

Yea, one of the Walmarts here in Calgary was almost completely devoid of blu rays. It was crazy, since I got there about an hour and a half after it opened and there were only about 5 or 6 movies left (the way the HD section is set up, its got 4 sides facing out, 3 of which are full of blu and 1 side red).

[tru_to_blu]

I didnt go out today.