A French retailer has started to put signs in the PS5 section saying choose wisely if they want COD

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#1 deactivated-62825bb2ccdb4
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A Belgian retailer has allegedly been spotted putting a warning on its PlayStation 5 section, telling potential customers that they may want to reconsider their purchase due to Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

As pictured by Twitter user HazzadorGamin, Belgian supermarket chain Cora is claimed to have placed the notice on its shelves, which reads: “Notice to gamers, Microsoft has bought Activision! Choose your machine carefully (Call of Duty)”.

Cora has more than 60 stores in France, and 20 more in Romania, Belgium and Luxembourg.

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#2 Fedor
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That's a pretty odd thing for a business to do.

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#3 SolidGame_basic
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Sounds like fake news

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#4 hardwenzen
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Only there because there's no PS5's for them to sell, while there's much more stock for the X and especially the S. No way this could be another reason.

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#6  Edited By deactivated-642321fb121ca
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They know GP has destroyed their game sales right? Guess not, I would be getting customers to buy PS4/PS5/Switch games.

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#7 Mesome713
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A retailer with a heart? French are amazing people.

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#8 sakaiXx
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Lol a retailer selling products doing this. Must be that desperate to sell those unsold xboxes.

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#9 UItravioIence
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I'm leaning towards this being fake. It seems rather ridiculous for a retal store to do this.

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#10  Edited By Pedro
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Retailers being fanboys with ignorant suggestions. 🙄

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#11 Miyomatic
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Lemmings are desperate. They should stay off system wars while at work. 🤣

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#12 Chutebox
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Pretty stupid if legit.

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#13 Archangel3371
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Probably fake but pretty damn funny regardless. 😂

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#14 ZeroTheHero
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What a strange dumb business move

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#15 omegaMaster
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Well, say goodbye to your partnership with Sony. Sony will probably take away Cora's Playstation stock.

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#16 blaznwiipspman1
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@mesome713: indeed, these are good people with the heart in the right place. Renews my faith in retailers. Not all of then are dbags selling online to scalpers with bots.

Anyways, the xbox is selling well. It might not be doing great on scalping sites, but even today I went to a Walmart and saw someone purchase an Xbox series S

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#17 adsparky
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I don't think it is photoshoped more like a prank.

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#18 regnaston
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that picture was from a couple weeks ago when MS bought Activision.. I thought I already saw it posted here but maybe it was on twitter

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#19 onesiphorus
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I am confused. Is Cora a French-based retailer or is it Belgian-based?

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#21 PC_Rocks
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@onesiphorus said:

I am confused. Is Cora a French-based retailer or is it Belgian-based?

Probably a French chain in Belgium.

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#22  Edited By mrbojangles25
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Slow news day I see...

@onesiphorus said:

I am confused. Is Cora a French-based retailer or is it Belgian-based?

Belgian.

Belgians speak French in the south and Dutch in the north, iirc.

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#23 deactivated-63d2876fd4204
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Yall seriously don’t think a retail worker would engage in fanboy behavior? I’ve seen GameStop employees do far worse.

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I briefly thought about doing something like this to warn people about the RRoD, but then I thought...who gives a shit?

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#25 Jag85
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No way would a retailer do something that hurts their business like this. This must be either a rogue employee, a customer, or just fake news.

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Yeah, this is weird ... awfuly weird ... like probably "fake" weird.

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#27  Edited By KvallyX
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A Belgian retailer has allegedly been spotted putting a warning on its PlayStation 5 section, telling potential customers that they may want to reconsider their purchase due to Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

As pictured by Twitter user HazzadorGamin, Belgian supermarket chain Cora is claimed to have placed the notice on its shelves, which reads: “Notice to gamers, Microsoft has bought Activision! Choose your machine carefully (Call of Duty)”.

Cora has more than 60 stores in France, and 20 more in Romania, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Weird for him to say that considering PS5s are easier to find than a Series X now. People will just buy what's available.

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@hardwenzen said:

Only there because there's no PS5's for them to sell, while there's much more stock for the X and especially the S. No way this could be another reason.

Bingo. If this story is true they likely want to sell their S overstock.

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@WitIsWisdom said:
@hardwenzen said:

Only there because there's no PS5's for them to sell, while there's much more stock for the X and especially the S. No way this could be another reason.

Bingo. If this story is true they likely want to sell their S overstock.

That's a funny theory... with no facts to back it up.

Regardless, the store owner is apparently wrong. Microsoft is now saying they will making future CoD games on Playstation.

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@dabear said:
@WitIsWisdom said:
@hardwenzen said:

Only there because there's no PS5's for them to sell, while there's much more stock for the X and especially the S. No way this could be another reason.

Bingo. If this story is true they likely want to sell their S overstock.

That's a funny theory... with no facts to back it up.

Regardless, the store owner is apparently wrong. Microsoft is now saying they will making future CoD games on Playstation.

The question was never whether the store owner was wrong or not. It was already common knowledge MS said they will make future CoD games for PlayStation. What isn't known is for how long.

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@WitIsWisdom said:
@dabear said:
@WitIsWisdom said:
@hardwenzen said:

Only there because there's no PS5's for them to sell, while there's much more stock for the X and especially the S. No way this could be another reason.

Bingo. If this story is true they likely want to sell their S overstock.

That's a funny theory... with no facts to back it up.

Regardless, the store owner is apparently wrong. Microsoft is now saying they will making future CoD games on Playstation.

The question was never whether the store owner was wrong or not. It was already common knowledge MS said they will make future CoD games for PlayStation. What isn't known is for how long.

That doesn't take away from your comment (in bold above) is unsupported.

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#32 DragonfireXZ95
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Guessing some fanboy printed a sign and posted it temporarily, then took a picture.

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#33 commander
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I am from belgium, this is legit. I don't understand why you some find this so odd, if you're a call of duty player you could be missing out on content.