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Nintendo = Purple?
« on: April 25, 2006, 06:47:02 AM »
Crap, Nintendo is the kiddie.

In the coming month, Wal*Marts across the country will be completly remodeling their Electronics Department.  One of the major focuses is going to be on video games.  This includes a *much* larger section of "Open To Sell" (i.e.: Not locked in cases) of $20 and under games, all HD TVs for the display units, more footage of locked game cases, etc.

But here's the bad thing.

Currently, Wal*Marts are supposed to be set up where the cases are Sony - Nintendo - Microsoft.  Always lead into the gaming with Sony, then Nintendo, then MS.  This is changing, Nintendo and Microsoft are swapping places... they're going to be in last.

But, aside from that, the cases are going to be color coded.  Sony/PlayStation gets Blue.  Microsoft/XBox gets Green.

Nintendo gets...

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...purple.

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RE: Nintendo = Purple?
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2006, 07:00:05 AM »
Red would have been better, but purple isn't so bad... on its own at least. It's a powerful colour! It's just that the Cube was a lunchbox with a handle, and the purple didn't compliment that well.

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« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2006, 07:07:06 AM »
Man that is so stupid. Why the hell is Nintendo going to be Purple, they should be red. Stupid Wal-Mart.
Purple is not a good color, when people see purple they think girly, kid-dy, and homosexual (Its their offical color after all). I mean if you walk into their toy section the girls area is all pink and purple. God damn it Wal-Mart do some freaken research into colors before picking one.

As for the order, I'm actually kind of happy since at the 4 Wal-Marts in my area the Xbox section sticks out more and is the first section you see while the Nintendo section gets hidden away since its in the middle.  
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RE: Nintendo = Purple?
« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2006, 07:17:22 AM »
For the record I think it's Indigo not purple. :-P  I like the color myself.  I fine it to be one of least offensive purples and if the Rev gets an Indigo version I'll probably end up getting it to keep my collection in sync.
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RE: Nintendo = Purple?
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2006, 07:22:24 AM »
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Purple is not a good color, when people see purple they think girly, kid-dy, and homosexual

Hey, girls, kids and homosexuals make up more than 50% of the population, so Nintendo wins this round.

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« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2006, 07:24:01 AM »
It disturbs me that they're so far behind. But it doesn't surprise me.

I hate buying video games at WalMart, because the service is horrible. Why on Earth do you put the grandamas in the electronics department...

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« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2006, 07:25:22 AM »
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Hey, girls, kids and homosexuals make up more than 50% of the population, so Nintendo wins this round.


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RE: Nintendo = Purple?
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2006, 07:26:25 AM »
At mine they had to move one of the main people in the Electronic department to the calmer life of a cashier because they had a heart attack when they clocked in one day.  Talk about the stress to benefits ratio being skewed.
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RE: Nintendo = Purple?
« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2006, 08:20:18 AM »
Can't blame Wal-mart on this.  What is the offical colour for the Cube?  PURPLE.  The ads focused on the purple Cube and the Cube game cases all have a purple trim.  Nintendo decided to make purple their main colour.  It was their f*ck up so get mad at them.  The only thing you can blame Wal-Mart for is that they're using the Cube colour scheme when a new console is just about to be released and might use a different colour scheme entirely.

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RE: Nintendo = Purple?
« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2006, 08:44:08 AM »
Nintendo is not only the cube.

They shouldve gone with red, now that is the official Nintendo logo color.

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« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2006, 09:02:06 AM »
Indeed, the bulk of Walmart's Nintendo sales are not coming from the Cube, but rather the GBA. The color doesn't mean anything though... the issue is putting them "after the Microsoft case". These things tend to work themselves out though... enough GBA owners can't find the case now that it's two feet from where it used to be, sales suffer, Walmart realizes that it's lost a lot more in Nintendo sales than it gained in Xbox sales by the move. Then they switch back.

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« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2006, 09:16:18 AM »
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Purple is not a good color, when people see purple they think homosexual (Its their offical color after all).
I thought rainbow was their official color?
Why must all things be so bright? Why can things not appear only in hues of brown! I am so serious about this! Dull colors are the future! The next generation! I will never accept a world with such bright colors! It is far too childish! I will rage against your cheery palette with my last breath!

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« Reply #12 on: April 25, 2006, 09:17:00 AM »
"These things tend to work themselves out though... enough GBA owners can't find the case now that it's two feet from where it used to be, sales suffer"

Does this really happen?  Is there anyone that is so f*cking stupid that if you move a case a few feet that they'll be completely unable to find what they want and thus won't buy it.  Assuming that for some reason I don't think to look in that other glass case right next to where the GBA case used to be if I wanted to buy something and couldn't find it I'd ASK ABOUT IT.  You read all this stuff about shelf space and placement and stuff like that but I don't think I've ever met anyone who wanted to buy something and then changed their mind because it got moved to a different part of the store or it's now on the top shelf instead of the middle.

"Nintendo is not only the cube."

GBA game boxes also have purple on them.  The "only for" logo, which is pretty much on every GBA game ever made, is purple.

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RE:Nintendo = Purple?
« Reply #13 on: April 25, 2006, 10:07:28 AM »
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Does this really happen?  Is there anyone that is so f*cking stupid that if you move a case a few feet that they'll be completely unable to find what they want and thus won't buy it.  Assuming that for some reason I don't think to look in that other glass case right next to where the GBA case used to be if I wanted to buy something and couldn't find it I'd ASK ABOUT IT.  You read all this stuff about shelf space and placement and stuff like that but I don't think I've ever met anyone who wanted to buy something and then changed their mind because it got moved to a different part of the store or it's now on the top shelf instead of the middle.

I'd be happy to disparage the intellect of WalMart shoppers, but that's not the point.  You're discounting (pun delightfully intended) impulse sales, which are greatly affected by the placement of products, not to mention far more likely for the cheaper GBA games.  Quite simply, not everyone walks into a WalMart planning to buy a particular game.

Also, purple has been Nintendo's favorite color for a long time now, at least as far back as the SNES.  It's also the color of royalty.

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« Reply #14 on: April 25, 2006, 10:17:57 AM »
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Does this really happen?  Is there anyone that is so f*cking stupid that if you move a case a few feet that they'll be completely unable to find what they want and thus won't buy it.  Assuming that for some reason I don't think to look in that other glass case right next to where the GBA case used to be if I wanted to buy something and couldn't find it I'd ASK ABOUT IT.  You read all this stuff about shelf space and placement and stuff like that but I don't think I've ever met anyone who wanted to buy something and then changed their mind because it got moved to a different part of the store or it's now on the top shelf instead of the middle.


Have you ever worked retail?  Customers are idiots.

Probably not to this extreme, but seriously.

For example, at my Wal*Mart, our Snack Bar closed and, after it was gutted, it was replaced with a complete clearance section instead of having it spread all over the store.  Now, as in most Wal*Mart, you have to walk right past the Snack Bar area when you enter the store (The Garden Center wasn't opened yet although I guess it is slightly possible that the people I'm about to talk about came in through Automotive...).  Anywhoo, I walked past an older lady and a girl who was walking toward the front from Toys.  The older lady points at the former-snack-bar-now-clearnace section and says "Well, they moved it all up there!  That's just stupid!  Now we have to walk all the way up here to see the clearance stuff."  'All the way up here' being two feet from the carts that you passed when you came in.  Moron.

Another example - I work in the Connection Center (where we sell Cell Phones).  I was working with a gentleman setting up his phone contract.  This can be a pretty involved process and we'd just finished his credit check (which is about the first thing you do) and we were discussing plans to see which one he wanted.  It was going to be another 30 mins or so with this one customer.  Now this older man came up to the counter and kinda cut in-front of the guy I was speaking with and threw a pre-paid phone card onto the counter.  Now, in theory, I could have rang this guy up, however, 'one customer at a time'.  You may have to wait your turn for my attention, but when I give it to you, I'm going to respect that and you're going to get it.  Also, I think both me and the first customer were just floored with the fact that this guy just cut in-front of him...  Anywhoo, I looked at the rude-guy and told him that I was going to be another 30-45 mins with this other customer because we were setting up a contract and suggested going to the photo center (which was not busy at all - he would have been checked out with no waiting - and you have to pass on your way out of the store).  The guy sneers at me and says "Do they have these at K-Mart?"  - "I don't know."  - "Well, I'm just going to go there." and leaves.  Dude, you could have waited in line on our most busy day and still have gotten out of the store faster than leaving, driving over to K-Mart, walking to the other end of their store, finding the card and walking back to the front and then waiting at the Service Desk for someone to ring you up (our K-Mart is so understaffed that the majority of the time, the only "register" they have open to check people out is the Service Desk.)

And a final example - although not as bad.  When I worked in Photo, numberous times people would come up to the One-Hour Counter with a roll of film.  I'd ask if they wanted "One Hour or Regular Service".  They'll reply "Regular Service".  I point at the large, blue drop box about five steps away and tell them that's for regular service.  "Oh.  Well, I'll just take one hour then."  What?  A good variant is "How much more is one hour than send out?"  - "A couple of bucks, depending upon which package you choose for the regular service."  - "Oh, I'll take regular service then."  - "Okay, the regular service drop box is right over there."  -  "Oh.  Give me one hour then."  Is it really worth a couple of bucks to people not to have to write their name on an envelope?

Anywhoo, the moral is, while I haven't seen any customers that stupid/lazy, if I was told a story about it, I wouldn't doubt it.
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RE: Nintendo = Purple?
« Reply #15 on: April 25, 2006, 11:24:57 AM »
This would be fine if they actually made it indigo.  Purple is not the same as indigo.  In my opinion, indigo is a very cool colour.

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« Reply #16 on: April 25, 2006, 12:46:43 PM »
For realz, an indigo gamecube would have looked incredible - like the indigo Apple used a few years ago on the old ibooks.

I didn't realize that the homosexual community has an "official" color.  Is there an official heterosexual color?

This decision was likely from some pencil-pushing exec who equated Nintendo with children's toys, and not an older audience; it's unfortunate that they're using the Cube's color, and not Nintendo Red, for the layout.  Whatever, refined gamers like myself (tee-hee) can continue buying games at locally owned game shops.  

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« Reply #17 on: April 25, 2006, 01:03:28 PM »
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"Nintendo is not only the cube."

GBA game boxes also have purple on them.  The "only for" logo, which is pretty much on every GBA game ever made, is purple.


I see your point, but I think they are referring to this

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« Reply #18 on: April 25, 2006, 01:42:57 PM »
The real damage is being pushed to third place. Which seems silly, since the handhelds surely outsell the XBOX.

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« Reply #19 on: April 25, 2006, 03:08:19 PM »
i agree with the "customers are idiots" comments.
i work retail and every day i am more and more amazed at how people can be so dumb or lazy or both.
i work in a clothing retailer that i regret ever working at (cept that i get discounts on nintendo shirts, yaaay) and we change things up VERY OFTEN,  in fact, annoyingly so. hell fell off a ladder today doing something like that but thats not the point.
if a customer comes in on a friday and sees tshirt X in spot A but cant afford to get it, then on monday we move tshirt X to spot B they think we sold out of it and LEAVE the store before they would EVER think of asking. I've seen it so many times but i still cant believe people do such things. moving something two feet in a retail store is a HUGE deal guys..
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« Reply #20 on: April 25, 2006, 07:51:56 PM »
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« Reply #21 on: April 25, 2006, 08:23:47 PM »
Spice is the manliest of the Nintendo colors. Fear my original model import Spice-colored GBA!

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« Reply #22 on: April 25, 2006, 10:43:36 PM »
I also worked at Wal-Mart in the Electronics section and was constantly amazed at all the dumb consumers.

What amazes me is how Wal-Mart has a whole aisle of video games locked behind glass cases and people would still ask where are the video games. Your standing in the opening of Electronics and the first few glass cases are plainly visible but rather than stop for a moment to look, the customer would rather stop and find a staff member to point them to the clearly visible end aisle.

And it could be worse than that. There were times I was walking by the video games and a person would ask me: "Where are your video games?" or "Where are the Playstation/Xbox/Cube/DS/GBA/PSP games?" And I'd look at them for a moment, then turn sideways and gesture at the case I was standing next too and say "Right here" Now, generally, this was more to the elderly and some people who buying them as gifts for relatives but it happened a lot.

As for the store changes, some of those seemed to be going into effect in our store. We were definlty setting up a lot of HD tvs. But we never changed anything with the games location except squeeze in some spots for the PSP and DS. I've since quit but I was there last week and the games are still in the same order. I don't if it's different in Canada but starting from behind the cashier, the games are organized by GBA to DS to Gamecube to Xbox 360 to Xbox to Playstation2 to PSP. So, Nintendo is always the most visible.

Oh, and I'm glad someone mentioned that Purple is color of Royalty. So true because Nintendo is the King. But not that Indigo color. A deep, dark, luschious, purple.

Finally, my favorite dumb customer story. I'm standing at my till and talking to another employee because things were going slow when up walks this family. The mother says to me that they're looking for a Gamecube game. Ok, I reply, what is the name? The mother looks at her child who's probably 6 or 7 years old and tells him to give the name. The Legend of Zelda, he answers. Alright, now did you want the Wind Waker or the Four Swords Adventure, I asked. He wasn't sure so I took them over to the games and showed him both copies. He looked at them and his mom asked if either was the game he saw. He didn't think so, so I asked if he could describe it. In my mind, I was wondering if he was looking fo Twilight Princess because some new information had just been released. And when he began to describe the game, sure enough, that's what he was describing. So, I asked him if the name was Twilight Princess. No, he said, and after a moment of thought, he replied it was called The Legend of Zelda Trailer 2.

It was so hard to keep from laughing but fortunately I was sort of shocked for a moment. So I explained that the real name was Twilight Princess and it wasn't supposed to be out till the fall. The family thanked me and left. The associate I was talking to earlier had been with me the whole time and we laughed about that for the rest of the shift.
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RE:Nintendo = Purple?
« Reply #23 on: April 26, 2006, 12:27:45 AM »
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No, he said, and after a moment of thought, he replied it was called The Legend of Zelda Trailer 2.



Anyway. Customer stupidity rarely surprises me. What does suprise me, though, is how much people who work with customers tend to hate them. I hate customers who yell at me for no reason. Other than that, though, who cares if customers ask the same stupid questions over and over or haven't memorized the layout of the store? That's like raising sheep and being annoyed that they wander all over the place without the help of herding dogs.  
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« Reply #24 on: April 26, 2006, 05:50:28 AM »
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Oh, and I'm glad someone mentioned that Purple is color of Royalty. So true because Nintendo is the King. But not that Indigo color. A deep, dark, luschious, purple.
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