Today upon walking into the Covington Walmart, I was extremely surprised to see an almost full assortment of PC parts to build a PC. There weren’t any PC cases stocked probably because of the amount of storage space required relative to the selling prices, but CPUs, motherboards, AIO CPU coolers, RAM, video cards, SSDs, hard drives, and power supplies were stocked. I hardly make trips to Walmart, maybe once or twice a year so this was really astounding. Of all the PC parts in the display shelves at the Walmart that perplexed me the most was an Intel I9 14900K, a last generation top-end CPU; Covington and the surrounding areas are not exactly high-income and/or full of tech enthusiasts. Also, there were PNY Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics cards priced at $749 which is the MSRP — that amount would probably be more than what the average consumer in the surrounding area would pay for a complete regular desktop PC.
