Girl opens iPod, finds wacky note instead

Yeah, obviously this is Walmart's fault, people have also gotten Xbox 360s with Phone Books in them for the same reason.

This is part of a phenomenon called shopdropping, where activists and artists deliberately place fake merchandise, often bearing anarchist or socialist messages, into stores.

Here's a New York Times article about it: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/24/us/24shopdrop.html

Wait a minute, right now aren't hundreds of people buying an iPod and stuffing random shit into the box to return it for another one? it's a two-for-one special and their word against the store's.

Haha, I love how people are blaming Walmart for this.
Well sure, everyone's entitled to hate the company, that's your right, but c'mon - the employees (yes, me included) are just normal folks like you.
We all make mistakes.
I also happen to work at the return counter, too - I check the boxes for everything that comes back.
Not everyone is a slack-jawed moron; don't make it sound like all of us are complete drooling morons.
(Though yes, many are..)

As for the arguments regarding the weight of the box, the article states;
"and a few books about leading a more enlightened life."
As being included in the box, thus making it's weight more similar to a normal iPod-filled box.
So gauging the difference between a normal box and a box with the "special" contents is pretty hard if they're both packed with different materials.

Though I'd say it's either an associate working in the Claims department (where returned merchandise goes once it's passed the back doors) who decided to "educate" someone, or it's the customer who returned the iPod.

Still, I do kinda have to laugh...why would you buy an iPod if the shrink-wrap is off of the box?

iPod. Maunfactured overseas. Packed in its box overseas. Box shrinkwrapped overseas. Box and many others packed into a case overseas. Case shrinkwrapped overseas. Case and many others loaded onto a pallet overseas. Pallet shrinkwrapped overseas. Pallet and many others like it loaded into shipping container over seas.

The next time that single box with its iPod is touched by a human hand is when that pallet hits Wal*Mart, and the pallet shrinkwrap is removed and the case opened.

Yep, some shmoe from Apple here in the US is certainly responsible for that note!

Gil Grissom, get this person on your C.S.I. team ASAP! He is the very reincarnation of Sherlock Holmes himself!

(not the dufus who thinks that someone at Apple is behind this.)

Has this note commie never heard of Audible? Maybe the girl was planning on listening to socialist crap audiobooks instead of Britney.
An iPod, like all tech devices, is a neutral tool to be used many, many ways. Some good, some evil. Just like books.

Sounds like WalMart has some serious problems: see also...

Does anyone find it funny that the author of a note urging someone to "reclaim your mind" misspelled the word "resurrect?" It appears that reading all those books may not be so helpful after all.

People, it says "she found a note which read, 'Reclaim your mind from the media shackles. Read a book and resurrect yourself. To claim your capitalistic garbage go to your nearest Apple Store,' and a few books about leading a more enlightened life."

It says that it included a few books about leading a more enlightened life. So the mass of the box would have been more than just the note, whoever did this obviously put the books in to create a mass similar to that of the iPod.

READ! Then you won't have these stupid fights.

Hmm .. how about a dead finger from a dead body in iPod box?

(Sorry .. I think I watched to many episodes of CSI ..)