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Surprise! Walmart sold a lot of Wii consoles yesterday [update]


Well now, who could've expected this? Surely not us! We're not being sarcastic at all. Walmart promotes a healthy supply of Wii stock and, sure enough, the retail giant has sold a lot of consoles. Tens of thousands by Monday afternoon, in fact.

Spokesperson Ravi Jariwala said the company saw a "very strong response to the additional inventory" that Walmart sold online and that they blew through stock ranging in the "tens of thousands" by "early Monday afternoon." What's surprising, though, is that despite selling all of those consoles, they're still in stock on the retailer's site. If that sounds like something you'd be interested in, then hit up this linkage. Or, you know, just bash Walmart in the comments.

Update: Looks like the consoles are out of stock now. Bummer.



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Seems that way.



That was quick, but any stock will be sold.



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No surprise there, if you have Wii consoles in stock they will be sold. Especially if you can buy it from the comfort of your own home.



They're also selling out in UK, and over here the store I went to today was sold out (which is unusual).



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Well, yeah. As long as you're talking "tens of thousands," you're going to sell out quickly. With the Wii, you need to be talking about hundreds of thousands if you want to last longer than a week.



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tens of thousands ~= 10,000-19,999 units?



Galaki said:
tens of thousands ~= 10,000-19,999 units?

 

More like 10,000 - 99,999, but I'm guessing it's usually in the lower half when people use that term.