Posted on 11/29/2025 1:37:46 PM PST by Libloather
These Black Friday shoppers are seeing red.
Walmart customers were left fuming after finding out Kraft’s new limited-edition “Mac Friday Box” had sold out in seconds.
The novelty item, designed to look like a 65-inch flat-screen, featured 65 boxes of classic Kraft Mac & Cheese inside and went on sale via the Walmart website at midnight Friday.
It retailed for $19.37, a nod to the year that Kraft was founded, with savvy shoppers enticed by the bargain price.
The low cost meant that each box inside equated to less than 30 cents — less than a quarter of the regular sale price.
Others were enticed by the novelty of the product, which was promoted ahead of time by social media influencers, including Zach Ciampa, who runs the account “Snack with Zach”.
Many eager customers claimed they spent hours waiting on the Walmart website ahead of time so that they could quickly add the item to their carts.
However, they were left devastated after realizing they simply weren’t fast enough.
“I literally had it in my cart and it sold out while I was hitting the finish button — what even,” one annoyed online shopper snapped.
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And in some places are illegal. Repercussions range from fines for every customer who lost out to charges of fraud.
It's a bait-and-switch scam that korporations feel the peasants should be subjected to. Walmart in particular ratchets up the Black Friday bait-and-switch scam despite stampede deaths at their stores.
They use it as a strategy, not just get customers in their stores, but to cause losses for their competition. They buy one or two of an item per store, planning on the rejected customers will go to the competition and ask them to price match. It puts the customer at odds with the second store who doesn't want to lose the customer but who can't absorb the losses that Walmart can.
The product manufacturers are in on it because they know exactly how much Walmart ordered and how that translates into quantity per store.
Pull the same with korporate jets, high-end cars, commercial equipment, property leases, and financing packages. Let the korporate bosses experience the same feeling of getting screwed.
Well played.
Gotta love the Babylon Bee.
Well, at least they’re shopping online, so the rioting will be spread out thinly over a large geographical area.
Of course there just had to be an “influencer” involved. Vomit.
It is not like the old Black Fridays where people waited outside the physical store in the snow.
Waiting on a website means you add to cart, then you can go back to sleep.
Clown world.
People just have to somehow find a way to carry on, despite the devastating loss. There’s got to be a morning after…
Processed crap. I made a killer cauliflower-Mac on Thanksgiving. Low carb cheesy goodness with sauce from scratch.
When I was pregnant with my daughter in 1978, I craved Kraft macaroni and cheese. I ate it everyday for lunch. After I gave birth, I no longer had a craving so I didn’t eat it for years. I think in the 2000’s I bought a package just for fun. I’ve never had another box. The macaroni got smaller, and the cheese sauce was skimpy and thin. Today I bet it tastes like cardboard slime.
That doesn’t make me mad. What makes me mad is on-liners emptying shelves and walk in customers having to dodge the oversized picker carts loading their crap while blocking everything. Walmart can’t keep their shelves stocked because pickers grab it first. Then walkins have to subsidize paying for the cost of the on line shoppers royal treatment including ringing our own items up, bagging, and take and load. The online picking should be done during after store hours then the shelves restocked for walk in customers before opening time.
It took me a moment to realize that too.
“Low carb cheesy goodness with sauce from scratch.”
Nice job!
These people are a waste of transplantable organs.
All Fridays Matter!
Like, literalleh. Like, I can’t even.
Dey take EBTs for dat !
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