Even independent stores sometimes have to do this. At work we throw away pretty much any non 1st party N64 box and manuals. Unless it's an Ogre Battle or something. For some reason people just like buying the cart onlys and don't even look at the boxed games, they take up a lot of room and almost never sell. At one point I even opened up new copies of Perfect Dark, Turok 2 and Megaman Legends to throw away the box and put the bare carts out on the shelf once we ran out of used copies. They sold no problem even though the new ones a few rows down were the exact same price. Weird.