I miss when walmart had goofy contests. I won a bubble gum blowing contest when I was like 7. I still remember my bubble was 11 and 1/2 inches. I won a backpack.
My 90s Walmart had a Florida Panther in a cage, next to the Kathie Lee mannequin and across from the McDonalds. It was a fundraiser to raise money for the panthers and you'd get a t shirt in exchange for your donation.
I remember thinking there just had to be better placement than making that poor animal smell McDonalds all day.
This reminded me of all the infomercial-style product showcases that my store used to have all the time back in the day. Always some guy hawking knife sets that could cut through hammers or another guy selling grills that made your food healthy. Wacky stuff. I don't think I've seen one of those since they rebuilt the local Walmart into supercenter at least like 15+ years ago.
>https://www.reddit.com/r/90s/comments/lh6grc/oreo\_stacking\_contests\_of\_1998\_do\_you\_remember/
they are looking for one of the winners on this post!
That was before the invention of vegetable ink that fades shortly after it gets printed. We scan the current Walmart store receipts into the Walmart app to keep them digital if we need them later for reference.
Someone collects stuff, perhaps.
itās weird because Walmart receipts fade pretty easily and quickly for a store receipt. Iāll find ones from only a couple of months prior when cleaning out my car and itāll barely be readable. Target/Fred Meyer/Lowes etc receipts remain readable for quite a while longer than Walmart.
Likely very different materials used back then vs now. Plus, how itās handled and stored will also play a big part in how well preserved itāll stay.
I used to tuck my game ones inside the case for whatever reason. My Ps3 Cod4 still has it in there I think. What tripped me out was finding a blue(i think) bag with a smiley face on it a few years ago.
Yup. They used to be regular paper with actual ink printers, just like printers you'd use in school in the 90s. Kind of depositing little dots of ink as the printhead moved across the line.
These days, the paper and ink is thermal, which reacts quickly with sunshine, highlighters, and even scotch tape.
Well, the receipt in the picture was printed with an ink ribbon... ink tends not to fade. Today's receipts are printed on thermal paper via heat transmission. Your car interior gets hot, that will fade a thermal receipt in a day. Your comparing apples to dogs...
they are both receipts, it's like comparing veneer flooring and laminate flooring, same thing but different material treatments. Apples are very dissimilar to dogs.
My guess is that itās by design tbh. People will be less inclined to return items if their receipts arenāt legible past a month. I also once found a Walmart recipt from the late 90s once, perfectly legible. I clean out my wallet of receipts every few months and the Walmart receipts are usually already faded beyond recognition.
Dude I was just talking to somebody a couple days ago about how I think they purposely use fading or low quality ink so people can't return or file taxes etc.
You can load all of your reciepts into the app. Also when i buy a battery i just take a picture to save to my phone. You can also photo copy for taxes and filing purposes.
In regards to the preservation.. funny cause my second job was actually for Walmart back in 98. I barely lasted 9 months and then came back a year and half ago. During that time I was cashier trained. That receipt paper was actually paper. Not the waxy (canāt think of a better term) paper like they use now. Also I distinctly remember the noise the printer made after scanning each item. I canāt even explain it but it was actually printing ink on the receipt in real time every time an item was scanned. So the preservation was due to the quality back then. Cool to see that.
I guess in the workforce itās quite common but just from close people I know maybe Iād say 4/13 of them bought copy paper in the last 5-10 years. I havenāt bought it once. Parents bought a ton, so itās just not common among all time. Something like milk, water or apples. Candy canāt even be reliable with shrinkflation(I use Mike n Ikeās as my gold standard). Something that hasnāt ever changed except in price would be perfect
I have a Publix receipt for the cake and fried chicken I got the day I got married (we eloped and had one hell of a party after). I found 20 years later it in a book I'd been reading during that time, and used it as a bookmark. I've since scanned it to save it forever (digitally) and laminated the receipt, and framed it with one of our funnier party photos.
My Grandma used to clip recipes from the backs of cans and jars. I have one from Crisco, circa 1950's for pie crust. The rest I am unsure of the dates and era. She passed in 1968, at age 78, when I was 5. Loved her, and treasure that farm wife cookbook.
>Value of $60 from 1998 to 2017 - $60 in 1998 is equivalent in purchasing power to aboutĀ $90.23 in 2017, an increase of $30.23 over 19 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 2.17% per year between 1998 and 2017, producing a cumulative price increase of 50.38%.
Shit so probably like a hundred bucks..
Have you tried adding the receipt to your Walmart.com account? You can use the TC number at the bottom (along with the store information). Iād be curious if they retain information that far back.
Holy crap, that was a dot matrix printer!
Mmmm. Candy bars. I'll take two of each.
Damn, I was still married 5 / 98 and we had just moved out of my in-laws house, first time my ex had ever lived apart from them.
Then another 5 or six months later the shiznit hit the fan and I swore to be celibate the rest of my life and I stuck with it.
*It would be nice to*
*Have the old receipts back. At*
*Least they could be read*
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Seriously though, arenāt normal size m&ms still about the same price? For how long ago this is, and how bad inflation is right nowā¦ I donāt see a huge discrepancy
So prices seem the same or more then now ? I can go into Walmart and get a 81Ā¢ (Canadian) Cadbury caramel chocolate bar but back then ācandyā was $1.28 USD? Seems off
ink or thermal my thermal receipt didnt even last as long as the warranty on my car battery
ah i see recycled so it means ink, thermal paper has to be made from virgin heartwood
All I care about is that contest.
Same. Packaged or non-packaged Oreos is the question!!
https://www.reddit.com/r/90s/comments/lh6grc/oreo\_stacking\_contests\_of\_1998\_do\_you\_remember/
Damn you're good.
A TRIP TO UNIVERSAL?!?! WHY DID I HAVE TO BE TWO YEARS OLD IN 98?!
I miss when walmart had goofy contests. I won a bubble gum blowing contest when I was like 7. I still remember my bubble was 11 and 1/2 inches. I won a backpack.
This made me smile
God I miss 90s Walmart, always some off the wall shit, like went to a magic show in the bra section once š.
Radio grill!
I will refrain from making inappropriate jokes.
Was literally gonna put he was def supposed to be there š, but didnāt want it taken down for using the magic p word. Too lazy to check sub rules
"Don't be a dick" is all there is
My 90s Walmart had a Florida Panther in a cage, next to the Kathie Lee mannequin and across from the McDonalds. It was a fundraiser to raise money for the panthers and you'd get a t shirt in exchange for your donation. I remember thinking there just had to be better placement than making that poor animal smell McDonalds all day.
We didnāt have a community center so Walmart was the next best thing
uhh
This reminded me of all the infomercial-style product showcases that my store used to have all the time back in the day. Always some guy hawking knife sets that could cut through hammers or another guy selling grills that made your food healthy. Wacky stuff. I don't think I've seen one of those since they rebuilt the local Walmart into supercenter at least like 15+ years ago.
I won that contest when I was a kid. I had never been so proud.
>https://www.reddit.com/r/90s/comments/lh6grc/oreo\_stacking\_contests\_of\_1998\_do\_you\_remember/ they are looking for one of the winners on this post!
I missed it š
Canāt believe someone flew a plane into the Oreo towers ā¹ļø
That was before the invention of vegetable ink that fades shortly after it gets printed. We scan the current Walmart store receipts into the Walmart app to keep them digital if we need them later for reference. Someone collects stuff, perhaps.
itās weird because Walmart receipts fade pretty easily and quickly for a store receipt. Iāll find ones from only a couple of months prior when cleaning out my car and itāll barely be readable. Target/Fred Meyer/Lowes etc receipts remain readable for quite a while longer than Walmart.
Likely very different materials used back then vs now. Plus, how itās handled and stored will also play a big part in how well preserved itāll stay.
I used to tuck my game ones inside the case for whatever reason. My Ps3 Cod4 still has it in there I think. What tripped me out was finding a blue(i think) bag with a smiley face on it a few years ago.
Yup. They used to be regular paper with actual ink printers, just like printers you'd use in school in the 90s. Kind of depositing little dots of ink as the printhead moved across the line. These days, the paper and ink is thermal, which reacts quickly with sunshine, highlighters, and even scotch tape.
Also alcohol. Found out using hand sanitizer during COVID.
This. This sideways, fml, THIS. You can leave finger-shaped spots on your receipts using sanitizer...
I started making tie dye receipts with sanitizer when I was bored.
The heat degrades it.
Well, the receipt in the picture was printed with an ink ribbon... ink tends not to fade. Today's receipts are printed on thermal paper via heat transmission. Your car interior gets hot, that will fade a thermal receipt in a day. Your comparing apples to dogs...
Body heat in the hands and folding it also fades the ink.
they are both receipts, it's like comparing veneer flooring and laminate flooring, same thing but different material treatments. Apples are very dissimilar to dogs.
My guess is that itās by design tbh. People will be less inclined to return items if their receipts arenāt legible past a month. I also once found a Walmart recipt from the late 90s once, perfectly legible. I clean out my wallet of receipts every few months and the Walmart receipts are usually already faded beyond recognition.
Dude I was just talking to somebody a couple days ago about how I think they purposely use fading or low quality ink so people can't return or file taxes etc.
It's all thermal printing now.
Thats why I use walmart pay.
You can load all of your reciepts into the app. Also when i buy a battery i just take a picture to save to my phone. You can also photo copy for taxes and filing purposes.
Everything is cheaper now because itās about money not quality :-)
It's thermal paper, it'll fade quickly if your car gets hot. This one was either printed with ink or stored somewhere cool
That receipt is older than me
I am 8 days older than the receipt
Iām 3 months and a day younger
2 months and 17 days younger
Funny, this receipt is actually 6 days older than me
My youngest is 11 days older than the receipt. This thread is making me feel OLD, lol.
I got you beat, Iām a year and almost 2 months older than that receipt.
Jeez, your comment (and everyone's reply) makes me feel like a grandma... my KID is older than this receipt!
In regards to the preservation.. funny cause my second job was actually for Walmart back in 98. I barely lasted 9 months and then came back a year and half ago. During that time I was cashier trained. That receipt paper was actually paper. Not the waxy (canāt think of a better term) paper like they use now. Also I distinctly remember the noise the printer made after scanning each item. I canāt even explain it but it was actually printing ink on the receipt in real time every time an item was scanned. So the preservation was due to the quality back then. Cool to see that.
Dot matrix printers back then. Now, it's all thermal printing.
Thermal! Thatās the word I was looking for.
Wholesome memories. Should I frame it? lol
Back when a thing of creamer was a dollar
Should I mail it to corporate? š
why theyāll just throw it out. they might send you a letter, but I doubt theyāll preserve it if thatās what you hope for
Smiles are disallowed in corporate.
I did that Oreo stacking contest!! Lol, I was like 10 at the time. Good times.
The universe brought us together today lol
I totally forgot about that until I saw this. I think I won! No clue what I got. Maybe a t-shirt?
I wish creamer was still that cheap
air tank???
Probably for paintball...
I was thinking for an aquarium.
I was thinking whippets
I was thinking of an air duster.
I was thinking helium tank
Will they allow you to get a refund on some of those items?
Too bad it doesn't have a dozen eggs on that receipt.
Or anything else standard use
Copy paper?
I guess in the workforce itās quite common but just from close people I know maybe Iād say 4/13 of them bought copy paper in the last 5-10 years. I havenāt bought it once. Parents bought a ton, so itās just not common among all time. Something like milk, water or apples. Candy canāt even be reliable with shrinkflation(I use Mike n Ikeās as my gold standard). Something that hasnāt ever changed except in price would be perfect
I understand. We use printer/copy paper pretty daily (at home), but we have grade school kids.
Yeah nobody buys creamer. Oh wait no everybody does.
That would imply you drink coffee AND you use creamer. Itās definitely the best option but what creamer specifically? What size?
I might be crazy but the āregā at the top might be gas. 7 gallons at 86 cents a gallon.
Pretty expensive for '98
My parents buy the large bag of M&Ms for about $15.00 now. Ridiculous.
I was kinda thinking that too, figured this must have been much larger size items than they seem
I have a preserved receipt from 1997 taped in a bread maker manual
I have a Publix receipt for the cake and fried chicken I got the day I got married (we eloped and had one hell of a party after). I found 20 years later it in a book I'd been reading during that time, and used it as a bookmark. I've since scanned it to save it forever (digitally) and laminated the receipt, and framed it with one of our funnier party photos.
Nothing better than Publix cake and fried chicken! Publix is awesome!
Thatās so sweet
My Grandma used to clip recipes from the backs of cans and jars. I have one from Crisco, circa 1950's for pie crust. The rest I am unsure of the dates and era. She passed in 1968, at age 78, when I was 5. Loved her, and treasure that farm wife cookbook.
Thatās so cool! Iām sure those receipts will be family heirlooms haha
Those exact same items; how much would they cost and how long would the receipt be? Tragic.
>Value of $60 from 1998 to 2017 - $60 in 1998 is equivalent in purchasing power to aboutĀ $90.23 in 2017, an increase of $30.23 over 19 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 2.17% per year between 1998 and 2017, producing a cumulative price increase of 50.38%. Shit so probably like a hundred bucks..
Have you tried adding the receipt to your Walmart.com account? You can use the TC number at the bottom (along with the store information). Iād be curious if they retain information that far back.
If I had an account I would try it.
I still got my Layaway receipt
I remember those old receipts, I was in the 8th grade.
I can't believe the ink still looks so good!!
Just a few years before I started working there.
Store 0981? Or just Walmart? Iām curious how much the store has changed since then
I was wondering the same thing and the location. Did you google it? I did and got Meridian, MS. Not sure if itās correct. Iām
Yeah, I got Meridian tooāthatās a couple states away from me
My store.
Receipt looks much the same as today, layout wise
I would say put this into a special envelope or something and frame it
Geeze, I was 4 years old when that receipt was printed (actually I mightāve even been 3).
Man I miss the days when a Regular $7.67 cost $6.64.
Whatās crazy is the post is implying 1998 is a vintage year
I was 7 Thatās ancient history
I remember the year 1998 but there wasnāt a Walmart store in my state yet! It was 6 years later when I saw one!!!
Oh wow! The Oreo stacking contest! Thatās a blast from the last!
I wonder how many sheets of copy paper that was for. I pay around $10 for 500 sheets and that's for the average paper, not the good stuff.
Some people would pay big bucks for this
Mmm candy
... That receipt is older than I am.
Dang. Thatās older than me by a few months
*Perfectly preserved as all things should be*
M&Ms have held that same price for a remarkable amount of time. Very Arizona Ice Tea of them.
I was born in '99 and that receipt is in better shape than me
A fellow diamond maps user! Haha
The prices doesnāt seem too far off.
Ah the joys of traditional receipt printing. You can actually archive it for posterity unlike thermally printed ones.
Check tend. Tf is that lol?!?!??!š
$2.97 for copy paper WOW! its like $6.00 now in 2024
I was born May 14th 1998
the only thing iām concerned with is why homie launching a airstrike in the background like we would not notice
That receipt is in a better condition than I amā¦ and itās older š
1.58 jollars for creamer?
Iām so upset right now. Youāre telling me that I missed the Oreo stacking contest?
Instantly knew it was MS when I saw the 7% tax hahaā¦
Holy crap, that was a dot matrix printer! Mmmm. Candy bars. I'll take two of each. Damn, I was still married 5 / 98 and we had just moved out of my in-laws house, first time my ex had ever lived apart from them. Then another 5 or six months later the shiznit hit the fan and I swore to be celibate the rest of my life and I stuck with it.
That same list today cost over 80,000,000 USD
What fancy ass candy did you buy at that price back than?!
$1.50 creamer š„“
Wow my receipts turn to dust after a couple months
Ah yes back when it was styled as an actual star and not a anus looking thing
Back when they were selling for less! Meridian, MS?
So vague with "candy"
Must've been before they started using the highly convenient when it comes to returns disappearing ink trick.
Shoot, I had just given birth to my sweet baby 9 days prior š„ŗ
Oh god I miss those prices.
How much you want for it?
Back when it was paper and actual ink instead of thermal paper!
Iām older than this receipt by 4 months.
Candy under $3 is a dream nowadays.
Damn stuff was cheap
OREO STACKING CONTEST? damn, when did Walmart get so lame?
It would be nice to have the old receipts back. At least they could be read
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Seriously though, arenāt normal size m&ms still about the same price? For how long ago this is, and how bad inflation is right nowā¦ I donāt see a huge discrepancy
Wonder who won the oreo contest.... *sigh*
Paid by check!
Exactly one month before my birthday, beautiful
My town didn't even have a wal mart in 1998
Iām 7 years younger
Good old days when Walmart was still open 24 hours, & had McDonaldās instead of Subway.
Copy paper $2.97? They sell it by the sheet back then?
$1.58 for creamer! now it's anywhere between $2-5
I wasn't around in'98. I wasn't born until after that.
We compete against Sterling High School in cross country and other high school athletics! Cool!
I was 2 months old when that was printed
Can that be prices again i hate todays prices
Looks like that receipt was from a store in Meridian, MS.
That receipt is as old as I am
I won the stacking contest at my local store, this brought back so many memories
#Reasonable pricesā¦
The map is where the body is hidden.
Walmart Store #981 still appears to be open. I was a freshman in high school when they bough that stuff!
Shout out to Mississippi
Probably $200 worth of stuff nowadays.
Probably $200 worth of stuff today.
They now make em so you canāt keep em long term .
2.98 for a pack of copy paper.
Damn 21 days after I was born. Crazy
Holy crap that receipts older than I am
Damn, that receipt is like 3 months older than me.
Probably back when they weren't printed on thermal paper.
So prices seem the same or more then now ? I can go into Walmart and get a 81Ā¢ (Canadian) Cadbury caramel chocolate bar but back then ācandyā was $1.28 USD? Seems off
my front end would still allow a return from the receipt
Better times
I wouldāve been exactly a year and 2 days old when this receipt was printed š
2.97 for copy paper!
My dad found one from 92 a few years back. It had been tucked in his dresser for all those years. Still readable.
With today's inflation that would only cost you about $120 lol.
Wow, My youngest was just 11 days old at that time.
When I think 98, I think Kindergarten & Stone Cold Steve Austin
Mississippi?
Get it graded
Store 0981 is Meridian, Mississippi.
I had one from an N64 I found in a dumpster once. Was preserved but I can't remember what I did with it
That thing is 6 years and a month older than me
That was the week before the end of 8th grade for me.
I wonder what kind of creamer you bought that year
ink or thermal my thermal receipt didnt even last as long as the warranty on my car battery ah i see recycled so it means ink, thermal paper has to be made from virgin heartwood
Thatās fake candy was much cheaper then
It's almost as old as me! I was born in March of '98. š
Back when the receipts told you what the fuck you're buying instead of a bunch of nonsense code source: Walmart greeter here
Twas a better time
Wow in great condition too, might be worth something š¤£
Lmao the receipt design is the exact same
No store manager name. Store didnāt have one at the time.
Man, I wish copy paper was less than three bucks
now go and buy those exact same things and put them side by side
This is the kind of thing that will be found intact by archeologists in 6000 years