Walmart buys so much stuff that it can get major discounts. The supplier won't give those same prices to companies less gigantic than Walmart. Well, that’s because these retailers are significantly smaller than Walmart. Why don’t these retailers go straight to the supplier? If Walmart sells something at cost (which means it makes no profit), then the company buying stuff from Walmart is just paying whatever Walmart paid its supplier. Why Walmart Liquidation and Low Prices Matter Walmart sells entire pallets of returned items to savvy retailers, too. Sometimes customers return items, but in many cases, unopened items returned to this behemoth aren't returned in quantities large enough to keep. Sometimes it orders more than it needs, and when it does, it just sells those items off to other retailers on the cheap. Since Walmart is so big, it deals with enormous quantities of products.
But there’s another consumer you don’t know about – other retail businesses. Other products are delivered from Walmart warehouses to online buyers. Every day many of these items leave the store with the average consumer.
In order to sustain hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue, it currently offers 35 million products between the physical and online stores. This company employs 1% of America and serves millions of customers. But what if you could make a profit from the items you never use? That’s exactly what multinational corporations do on a regular basis. NPR has also highlighted YouTubers who buy pallets of returned goods at auction and reveal the contents.If you’ve ever bought groceries in bulk from warehouses like Costco or Sams, you know how satisfying it can be to save time and money. CNET reports that packages have also been sold at local swap meets. auctions Amazon parcels on which people can bid. As The New York Times reported in June, companies such as Liquidity Services collect surplus and returned goods from major retailers like Amazon and resell them, often for cents on the dollar. Postal Times, a website aggregating postal news, reported that it is legal to buy unclaimed packages from both Amazon and the United States Postal Service, but there’s a safer way to do it. "Facebook has been cracking down on this and while the results are positive, you should still be cautious of what you click." "There are many malicious sites designed to be shared on Facebook and bring victims to their site," the story said. In an article about staying safe from malware, the University of Georgia’s CAES Office of Information and Technology said a link’s being published on Facebook doesn’t mean it’s safe, We reached out to Amazon for comment, but received no response. But we found that the results were the same - they all lead to faulty websites none of these posts came from Amazon. Other Facebook posts used different links advertising parcels for around $1. We entered the site into, which rates websites for their trustworthiness and got an extremely low Trustscore - just 1 out of 100. We clicked the link in one of the Facebook posts and immediately got a Google warning that it was a deceptive site called. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The posts were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. But before you spend your hard-earned buck, pump the brakes - that link leads to malware. Some of the posts link to a sign-up form to receive one of these packages. "By rule, Amazon can throw these packages away, but now they're running a promotion and giving away random packages for just $1! You can easily get appliances, iPhones, kitchen items, or other items!" one post read. Several Facebook posts allege that Amazon has so many lost and unclaimed packages piling up in its warehouses that the company is offering them to customers for only $1 apiece. What’s in that box? A new iPhone or a fancy kitchen gadget? It’s all part of a $1 Amazon offer shared on Facebook that seems so good it makes Prime Day look overpriced.
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