Shurely shome mishtake.
A Redditor on ye olde PC Master Race subreddit claims to have picked up an RTX 5080 in-store at Walmart for a mere $562.49. That’s a fantastic price by any measure for an RTX 5080, but particularly right now with prices rising and the cheapest 5080s available online coming in at over $1,300.
Let’s assume this is true and Rinascimentale of Reddit did indeed pay a shade over $560 for an Nvidia RTX 5080. How, exactly, does this make sense?
Apparently, the price reduction on the RTX 5080’s box is a CVP or Customer Value Program sticker. According to various online discussions, CVP pricing is most commonly used for perishable goods that are about to go out of date.
Reportedly, they can also be used for in-store returns of online purchases that aren’t otherwise stocked. There are also indications that some of these prices may be auto-generated by an algorithm and applied to «open box» products that have been hanging around on store shelves. In other words, the algorithm just keeps cutting the price until the thing sells.
Redditors who claim to be present or past Walmart workers claim that such discounts can often be the result of a ruse by employees who apply the CVP discount with the intention of buying the product themselves.
