Walmart's Pre-Order Bonuses For Super Mario Bros. Wonder Revealed (North America)

Okay, the cards are pretty cool ngl.

Lol always with the cheapest little trinkets.

The GAME pre-order bonus is an elephant power-up stress ball. I’d rather have the trading card pack.

Neat, me thinks I'll be getting me some pre-ordering done at the ye ol' Walmart Rrrrrr. That be the kind of booty I like to get me hands on.

Those elephant cards will go for $$$ on eBay.

@gb_nes_gamer I've just pre ordered from Walmart, but I'd 100% rather take the stress ball personally. Wish we could swap. Uk always gets better gear.

I’ve not pre-ordered from Walmart before, at least not a game that came with extras. Will it be shipped so I have the game the day it releases? I’m pretty excited about this game so I definitely want to be able to play it day one.

@Blast16 I don't usually do wallmart but just pre ordered and it said delivery by Oct 20th which is release day. Hopefully they are reliable.

This reminds me when they did trading card for new super Mario Bros and Mario galaxy. (Do anyone remember those?

@Sequel I’ve already pre-ordered from Nintendo UK store. They normally have good gifts but they don’t announce them until closer to the release date.
GAME no longer offer free delivery and there’s a more expensive train fare to get to my nearest store.
Otherwise you’d of had yourself a deal.

hmm its not big but hey....

Ohhh I love those trading cards!! I'm a sucker for stuff like that

While the trading cards and magnet set do look pretty nifty, as a matter of principle, I refuse to shop at Walmart. The reason being is how they treat their employees as being expendable, especially when it comes to their absence policy.

The way it's set up, all absences, no matter the reason, are unexcused, and will cause the employee to accumulate "points." When enough "points" are accumulated, the employee is fired.

So you could theoretically have a heart attack (or, more relevant to recent events, COVID) and be in the hospital for a week or two, and they can fire you for it. And if you're a pregnant woman who has to attend a doctor's appointment for prenatal care, those "points" add up fast.

Furthermore, the managers will tear up any doctor's note the employees give them and throw them in the trash... right in front of the employee, no less. And this isn't based on the whim of the manager: this is corporate policy. As I said, ALL absences are unexcused, no matter the reason.

The way I see it, if your job is on the line because of real emergencies that could unexpectedly pop up in your everyday life, or because you're trying to bring life into the world in a safe and healthy manner, that is not a company to work for, much less shop at, in my book.

I don't know about you, but I'd rather spend a few extra dollars at a company that actually treats their employees well. No amount of "low prices" or preorder bonuses for games at Walmart will change my mind about that.

My local store in Ireland is offering 3 Pin Set. No pictures of what it looks like but it's something.

Knew it was too much to hope for a Daisy keychain.

Wubba Mario?? What power-up is that?

@AstroTheGamosian

One word. Begins with an s, ends with an alper, say it with me now, SCALPERS!

Meanwhile, if you want in-game cell shaded skins for Sonic Superstars, you need to spend $80 on "eligible products" at Kroger's stores to earn enough points to redeem for the character skin pack... Why couldn't this have been a Walmart pre-order bonus as well?

As much as I hate shopping at Wal-Mart - that is the best swag I've seen yet in the US. Wal-Mart it is then.

Now. let's talk pre-ordering for Warioware.

edit: it shows it is out of stock. I cannot find the pre-order. I wonder if it's hit it's limit. Hope not.

Most people: (getting excited)
Me: (Wondering what I’m the world “Wubba Mario is)

@Sequel Thanks for the reply! Maybe I’ll try the same 👍

Oh look! More useless junk to clutter my shelves and collect dust… I’ll just take the game, thanks.

@AstroTheGamosian I can vouch for this as well. Back in the day before I became a software engineer I worked for a Walmart Distribution center. In the DC we had something similar to points called “steps”. You get so many steps and you’re out the door. They don’t care about the employees or what they might be going through. The only thing they care about is the work getting done. There was a woman that worked with me who had cancer and was having to miss due to treatments. They fired her. It’s a pathetic corporation.

Nope, still gonna buy digitally.

Do I need it? No
Do I need the game physically as well as digitally? No
Do I need the cards? No
But will I still get this and then spend the random scalper fee to complete the series of cards? HELL YES

Sold out already. That was quick.

Not cool. SOLD OUT :C

Limited-edition randomized card packs that you can only get by pre-ordering the game? Interesting concept.

Anyone striving for a full set of the cards is gonna have a rough time tho

@AstroTheGamosian Calm down, Karl, this is Nintendo Life.

Had to pick up these cards. If I’m gonna buy the game anyway, may as well get a cool bonus!

@AstroTheGamosian
While I agree and my wife is going through exactly this with our newborn, it sucks because Walmart is literally the only (decent) place to shop for anything around here.
There are a few other stores but they are SUPER expensive or don't carry what we need.

@Jiggies
He's not wrong!

@Sourcecode
At least they make it easy to sue them!

@KayFiOS
No Kroger store near me. None in the state as far as I can tell

That’s a bad link to the Walmart US copy with the card set. Just search on the website and you’ll see another listing that shows the card set.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder + Exclusive Trading Card Pack - Nintendo Switch

@Blast16 I got my Disney Illusion Island from them and it did ship early and it came on release day. But this article has a bad link. You have to look for a listing that shows “exclusive trading card pack”

@adh56 you are the man, man.

did as you suggested - it worked.

Man, sold out already!

@Gofixmeaplate is isn't read 4 posts above this one and do that.

Damn, that elephant Mario looks angry.

@Sourcecode One of the Walmarts local to my area had an employee who actually died from a heart attack. He wasn't feeling good, went out to his car to take a break, and passed away in the driver's seat.

The most egregious thing was, no one from the store (from the management on down) came to check up on him to see if he was alright. They found his body several hours later, when someone else came in and reported that he was slumped over in his car.

When they couldn't take just a few minutes to check up on their employee, basically condemning him to suffer and die a horrible death, because the work was more important than the people doing the work, it only solidifies my hatred for the company.

@Spider-Kev I get what you mean. But my hatred for the company runs so deep, I would either drive further away to shop at a different store, or pay extra for other stores that charge more.

Fortunately, I live only about five miles down the road from a store called Woodman's, a regional chain local to the southeast Wisconsin/northeastern Illinois area. They not only have a great selection for dry and frozen goods (more so than Walmart, I'd say), but the biggest reason why I and many others shop there is because they are employee-owned.

So the workers not only get all sorts of perks and benefits that other retailers don't give, but since they have a majority stake in the business, they have a big say, if not the final say, in how the company is run.

As a result, I've almost exclusively done my grocery shopping there for the last couple of years, minus some infrequent trips to some other chains, like Meijer and a chain local to the Midwest that is owned by Albertsons.

@AstroTheGamosian
I'm in Missouri.
South of Lake of the Ozarks, to get anywhere is over an hour drive then an over an hour drive back home and with gas at $4+ per gallon, it's not really feasible.

@adh56 Thanks for the reply - I'll look into it!

Target one is better, still not worth it to support an archaic format though.

@AstroTheGamosian That's sad to read about. The troll in me would really like to get a job at Walmart during the busy shopping season for the sole purpose of quitting the day before Black Friday just to see the look on the manager's face (obviously without giving two weeks notice). Not this year, but it's something on my bucket list.

@Spider-Kev I live in the Chicago area, so I have my pick of stores to go to. As I said, the one I usually shop at is a place called Woodman's. I get that Walmart is the only option for a lot of people, due to affordability and distance. But if I had the choice, I would not go there.

@FirstEmperor It is indeed sad. But if you ever do that, don't even think of putting them on your résumé when going to look for another job. They would more than likely use that against you if any potential employers call them up and ask them for a reference.

Granted, a lot of companies are only allowed to say that you worked there from [Insert Date] to [Insert Date], and nothing more. They can't say how diligent you were, how well you got along with your coworkers and bosses, or how you left the company and why.

Still, it would be a good idea to leave them off your résumé if you ever do plan on doing what you say you would, just so that it doesn't come back to bite you in the end.

@Spider-Kev Kroger is also pretty bad, too. I should know: I used to work for them. Specifically, for a Kroger-owned chain local to the Chicago area. But it won't be for much longer, as Kroger is selling the entire chain off to C&S Wholesale Grocers in order to get the Federal Trade Commission to approve their merger with Albertsons, which owns Jewel-Osco, the other chain of stores local to my area that I mentioned in a previous comment.

The only difference between Kroger and Walmart, in my opinion, is that Kroger employees are unionized, whereas Walmart actively opposes unionization efforts. But it doesn't really matter, as the union contract that I had was so weak, Kroger could get away with basically anything. My father was a union man for years (specifically, police union), and he read my contract, and said it was the weakest contract he ever read.

And despite that union contract, the pay is still incredibly low. It may be higher than minimum wage, but they keep your hours low so it makes no difference. As a result, two-thirds of all Kroger employees make poverty wages. My own former supervisor, before she was wrongfully terminated, had to take a side gig with Instacart to make ends meet. The last time I saw her was actually at Woodman's, when I told her I quit my job at the Kroger.

And don't even think about trying to move up. They say it's easy and quick, but in my own experience, every time I had my name on the training schedule, I was always told that I couldn't train in my appointed timeslot and had to work on my regular duties instead. At most, they would allow me 15 minutes, even though the timeslot was for an hour.

And with scheduling, the work schedule was always random, so you had no work-life balance. No joke, you could close the store at 10:00 p.m. on a given night, then be back there at 8:00 a.m. the very next morning to work another shift. And time off was never guaranteed. A former coworker of mine had to miss his own sister's wedding because the store would not approve his time-off request.

There were a lot of other problems with that store, but I won't go into further detail, lest this comment turn into another essay that I am notorious for. Just know, Kroger is another company to avoid if you can help it.

@Spider-Kev The irony behind them selling off this chain, though, is that when Kroger bought the parent company for the store I used to work for, the parent company (called Roundy's) wanted to split off the chain from itself and have it go independent, but Kroger refused to buy Roundy's without this chain of stores.

And now, suddenly, Kroger wants to sell off this chain in order to buy out Albertsons. Why would they sell off this chain if they were so adamant about buying it in the first place? It makes no sense to me. I have a feeling that something fishy is going on.

@AstroTheGamosian
Most big corporations are like this though, I know, I worked my fair share of them.
In fact, I got injured on the job at one and am now disabled because of it.
The company we asked their way out of any responsibility and I barely make anything on disability.
This upcoming 3% is a freaking joke when everything else is up buy 50% or more! I can't even afford to fix my house (Leakey roof and no heat) I keep trying to get a loan, my wife works but, you know, Walmart, and with a 4 month old and winter coming up quick, we keep getting turned down!
I own the house outright, no mortgage or anything. My credit score is keeping me down and it isn't bad, but it's not good either.

@Spider-Kev Ouch. But that's why I believe in worker solidarity. It is for that reason why I don't shop at Walmart. I do it out of solidarity for the workers.

@AstroTheGamosian Walmart is a huge step down from what I do now so even if I worked there and left on good terms I wouldn't even consider putting them on my resume. Either way I'm not too worried. I've been fired 3 times and each time I replaced my employer before they replaced me (i.e. I found a new source of income before they hired someone to replace my position).

@FirstEmperor As I said, my last job was at a Kroger. I ended up leaving on bad terms, mainly because they were expecting too much out of one person (such as being the sole person in charge of both cart and trash duty both inside and outside the store, with no one to help me) and weren't willing to listen to my concerns and suggestions on how to better manage things.

And it wasn't just me; it was everybody else in the store, too. Employee morale keeps hitting record lows. But Kroger would stay the course instead of implementing changes to better allay the employees' concerns.

What pushed me over the edge, though, was being written up for a BS reason over a Karen's complaint. Even the customer service representative who first fielded her phone call thought the woman was being unreasonable and entitled. It was more of a face-saving measure for the store.

It seems I've had bad luck with managers/supervisors in my experience working. My first job as a janitor, they fired me within three weeks because they didn't like my strong attention to detail; they wanted a quick wipe down with a disinfectant, whereas I was trying to scrub (as my parents taught me to do). They never gave me the opportunity to improve myself, so I could learn those little tricks to improve efficiency.

My second job working at a tech store, the assistant manager just simply hated my guts, no matter how friendly I tried to act with him, so he was looking for ways to get rid of me. I ended up quitting that job due to burnout, mainly due to his tyrannical nature. As the old saying goes, people don't quit their jobs, they quit their bosses. I was on good terms with the other managers, though; he was the only one who didn't like me.

My third job was at the Kroger. You already know how that turned out.

The job I work at now is probably the first job I've had where my bosses seem like reasonable people, are willing to respond to employees' needs and concerns, appreciate my attention to detail, don't expect more out of me than I can handle, and don't act like total tyrants. Hopefully when I leave this current job for something better, it will be on good terms (or at least better terms than the other three).