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Anon remembers the $49 GameCube (thelemmy.club)
submitted 6 days ago by [M] to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I remember doing that with a couple of "big" things in the 2000s. Bring the box to the counter and they swap it for a real one. A console was probably one of them, I can't remember what the others might have been

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    I worked at a big retail place in my country when I grew up, and we never had empty boxes for stuff. I did use… I dunno what you call it, but the metal wires with the crank that you need a magnet key to take off? Those were put on small, expensive things like a Raptor HDD. Consoles never got those though, because they’re big and not easy to conceal.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago

    This would have been Best Buy or Toys R Us, I was a just a kid so I don't remember if it was common or not.

    But that did make me remember something from my time at a grocery store! Sometimes when there was a huge sale on coca cola, we'd build a giant display that was mostly fake. The center was a heavy duty plain box and we'd stack the fake ones on top where people couldn't reach. Just the front columns. Not really the same thing but kinda!

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