Thank you to our SmartCanucks forum member EricaRaina for letting us know about these fabulous deals! Click here to read EricaRaina’s SmartCanucks forum post.
Our SmartCanucks forum member EricaRaina had noticed some Christmas items for only $0.01 on the Walmart Canada Website, but they were sold out. However, EricaRaina was determined and went to her local Walmart Canada location and had these items scanned! To her pleasant surprise, many items came up as only $0.01! Everything you see in the photo above only came to about $1.00 purchase total.
All of the small bottles you see are bubble bath. There are also some lipgloss sets, loufas, gel soap and puzzles of bath fizzles. You really can’t go wrong, these items were next to FREE!
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According to a Walmart employee that I just spoke to: items scanning at a penny at Walmart are usually suppose to have been removed from the sales floor and destroyed due to a recall.
Agreed. YMMV. They are NOT supposed to sell items scanned in at 0.01. THEY ARE TOLD THIS AS WELL. If you find a cashier who doesn’t know this, then your luck, or if you sneak a few items in with others, where cashier doesn’t notice the 0.01 on the register. But if you go to the cash with 100 $0.01 item, even the stupidest cashier has enough brains to call over a supervisor to check if everything is kosher, at which time the cashier will be told $0.01 items are not for sale.
SCORE!
Mel that penny recall story sounds like somebody made something up. Recalls are removed immediately from shelves in the retail biz.
Not sure about a penny recall, but penny generally signifies an item to be returned to the vendor for whatever reason. Some chains even prepend “RTV” to the description at cash. It’s not as urgent as a recall, but still something that cashiers are told.
See also: Street-date items (like video games with release dates) are often priced at some chains as, for example, $5000 or $9999, and then the price is dropped when the POS systems are updated the morning of the release day. I’ve also seen $9999 for vendor-owned or vendor-required demo units of tablets and computers.
Street dates are the reason you sometimes see things that may seem ridiculous, such as “Current price: 49.96, Previous price: $9999.99”
The recall thing is true, they do remove items from shelves but as we know, people move stuff around the store or hide it to buy later so Walmart puts $0.01 on items and the cashiers pull them at the cash- a message comes up on the screen when they scan it if it is recalled. Like Matt says, it is not only recalled items but stuff that needs to be returned to the vendor (maybe their contract with Walmart is up, there is new labelling etc).
I know some SCers have got away with buying them but often they just pull the item at the cash, depends if the cashier is paying attention and if they know they are supposed to pull them.
How did she know these items would scan at 1 cent?