WTF? The Walmart experience
Ok I try not to be holier than thou...judge not lest ye be judged, and all that. But still....
I had a few minutes today and dropped by my Walmart today to go Hot Wheels hunting. Found nothing, which is normal - they've been working on the same batch of cars for months at every store in our area. But I did find a few of those Fast and Furious ones, on the peg at 4.75 each. (Mainlines are 1.29)
The Fast and Furious ones hold no special interest for me, so I wasn't even really looking, but I noticed a couple off the pegs sitting on the bottom shelf. I looked at one black Nissan Skyline (that's what the package said it was) and I thought it actually looked pretty cool, till I looked closer and realized that it was actually a Ford Mustang. Someone had ripped open the package and put a mainline Mustang in the F&F blister. I would guess they walked away with the F&F car in a mainline blister. I found a couple of those transplanted mainlines in F&F blisters, sitting on the shelf sorta hidden behind everything.
I mean, I know its not gonna be the end of the world...but seriously...some people's kids.
(except I doubt they were kids)
Discussion
Walmart, man...I see that type of stuff all the time. Especially when they did those blind mystery cars a few years back. You could never find one intact.
I'm not a hardcore collector so I don't know for sure, but I can't imagine those cars are worth that much anyway...are they?
To go to the effort of opening 2 cards in-store, then swapping them...to save what, $3? It's not like that F&F car will get them $50 resale or something, so what's the point? And yeah...these aren't kids, they're adults that certainly no better. I know they're not kids because kids would just shoplift outright, it's easier...that's what I did back then :)
I saw an M2 hauler the other week at a Walmart that had a matchbox car rolling around in the trailer. It was the same situation.
They bought the $16 hauler set, took it home, got in to it, swapped out the limited "cyclone" inside.
I know how much work it is to remove the car inside the trlr. I'd bought the green Hemi 'Cuda set myself.
There's a bunch of screws holding the truck to the base, and the car to the truck. They were serious about wanting that car. Then they took it back to Walmart.
According to Rodney Harrington, Walmart will take back a poppy diaper if you try hard enough.
Some people are idiots, both at the store for not checking for product tampering at the return desk, and of course.... The shopn' swapn' loser.
Idiots I say... Pure idiots!