Viral TikTok shows Walmart potentially \u201choarding\u201d PS5s amid stock shortages Mike Mozart Flickr \/ SonyA TikTok of Walmart\u2019s PS5 inventory has gone viral, with some users slamming the company and accusing them of \u201choarding\u201d the consoles amid shortages. Walmart and other major retailers are stocking up for the Holiday season shopping spree. An employee revealed the state of one warehouse with dozens of pallets filled with PlayStation 5 consoles stacked over each other. \u201cThis is why y\u2019all don\u2019t have the PS5 because Walmart is hoarding all of them,\u201d user hishamhasan3 said. The video spark concerns about \u201choarding.\u201d People assumed the retail giant was holding their stock to drive up demand before the gift-giving season. \u201cThey\u2019re holding them till Christmas Season to drive demand to their stores,\u201d one person said. The clip has been going viral as people expressed their frustration at seeing the stockpile. According to the video\u2019s owner, a lot of the inventory was marked for consoles that have already been claimed but have yet to go out. \u201cBro I know it\u2019s super bad,\u201d they said. \u201cMost of them are backup orders.\u201d This also spurred speculation of hoarding to affect demand but retailers have been catching up with shipping orders in light of supply chain blockages worldwide. Read more: Who is Sidequest Therapy on TikTok? – A global chip shortage is also affecting tech companies and new product launches. The gaming industry has felt the impact of the market and has been trying to adjust accordingly. The demand for next-gen consoles like the Xbox Series X and S have led people to sign up for shock drop notifications and special online queues to register for PS5 purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Viral TikTok shows Walmart potentially \u201choarding\u201d PS5s amid stock shortages Mike Mozart Flickr \/ SonyA TikTok of Walmart\u2019s PS5 inventory has gone viral, with some users slamming the company and accusing them of \u201choarding\u201d the consoles amid shortages. Walmart and other major retailers are stocking up for the Holiday season shopping spree. An employee revealed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}