This Walmart Is Apparently Stuck In 2011

Reader Knah is one of the bravest explorers who form the Raiders of the Lost Walmart: retail archaeologists who comb the nation’s big-box stores for retail antiquities that have somehow stayed on the shelves even though they’re now obsolete, sometimes comically so. Here are his three latest finds: all of which are out of date, if not useless, yet are locked up in security equipment. Why?

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This isn’t the oldest security software we’ve seen for sale at Walmart, but that doesn’t mean that you should buy it. Or anyone else should buy it.

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Knah mistook this specimen for a copy of income tax return software from Intuit: indeed, if you need to file your 2011 income taxes, you have problems. This version is actually selling for more than Walmart’s price here on the Amazon marketplace, possibly presenting a business opportunity if anyone ever wants to buy it.

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Sure, you could buy this. Or you could buy a smaller drive with four times the capacity for maybe ten bucks more. Not much of a deal.

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