[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Wal-Mart (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 9/14/2006 4:12:42 PM EDT
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Just read on Yahoo that Wal-Mart is closing down their lay-a-ways after this year. The only reason I'm posting this is because not too long ago I read a post somewhere on here from a guy who said his son was a bigshot at Wal-Mart and that by the end of the year there would be no more lay-a-way. The second thing he stated was that Wal-Mart was going out of the gun & AMMO business all together! As everyone already knows alot of Wal-Marts have already stopped selling guns (not mine), but the ammo is a whole new deal. I know this thread is gonna catch a lot of flak from the "To hell with Wal-Mart crowd", but for someone like me who is on a very tight budget it does help to keep the costs of plinking ammo down. Not trying to stir up controversy, just saying the guy was right about the lay-a-away's (which I dindn't beleive at the time), he may just be right about this too! |
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It surprised me as I have worked retail for quite awhile almost every store i worked at had tons dead lay a ways you try to get ahold of them but many the contact info is not longer good so you restock the item and file the paperwork to see if they ever come claim it most do not its like free money to the bussiness some shops i workled at had many thousands in dead lay a way payments I would imagine a place like walmart it would be millions a year besides there are lots of people thats the only way they can purcahse something over $100 |
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MMMMMM, they get WWB 100 pack cases for me now instead of indivigual boxes. [45acp] Mine sells ammo just fine. 1000 rounds left with me today. 600 .45 and 400 9mm. [I did leave a few boxes of it left tho] Only thing I shop Walmart for. Same .45 stuff in 50 round boxes is $18 at the local gunshop now. 
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) They were gonna paint some of thier stores PINK w/Flowers to attract Gay Shoppers...Anyone else hear this?
| I saw and thought this many years ago. Democrats pushing economic developement and new jobs in their states by encouraging the construction of Walmart stores while knowing full well that Walmart`s bulk buying power would cause the demise of thousands of small privately owned gun shops. Which exactly happened. Then later pressure Walmart to stop selling guns/ammo, exactly what Hillary or Fienstien, or someone like them is doing. Freedom has taken another hit. |
Inever thought of it like that. I'm not the biggest conspiroscy (I know that can't be spelled right, lol) theroist around, but I have to say that does make for a good one! What do others have to say about this one? |
The one's screaming the loudest about Walmart ARE the dems. Every whine, complaint, gripe about pay, insurance, and the rest are ALWAYS from them. You wil have to search high and low to find anything to the contrary. Walmart is not the lowest on many things in the store, quite the contrary, some of their stuff is priced quite a bit higher then many other places. If you are an informed shopper then you take advantage of the deals and forget about the rest. Capitalism and consumerism at their very finest. Just because some STATES and their dem satanspawn are bitching does not mean it is Walmarts fault. If demand is high then it behooves Walmart to continue selling firearms and ammo, if no or little demand then it is no to their benefit. Not many guns I want that Walmart carries, I spend plenty at the local gunshop also but if I can buy 150 rounds of ammo at Walmart for the price of 100 at the local gunshop it's a no brainer. And you KNOW Walmart is making money off ammo or they would not sell it. Somethig like that $395.00 a case Guat a shop was selling in another thread.........maybe some shops are TOO greedy for their own good and need a bit of competition? |
| From what we were told yesterday the last day you can put something on lay-a-way is Nov. 12 and they must be off by Dec. 12... and for you guys that are pissed about Wal-mart not selling guns, how many of you have written wal-mart??? i work there and i have.. The only reason that i work there is because of the guns.... as soon as they are gone i'm gone... along with the rest of the guys that work in sporting goods.. afer that there's no point to be there. |
How long ago waws that?
I'm doing just that this weekend! Going to the fun show in Waukesha to pick up supplies for .06 to feed my Garand |
They can't save up $100 and then buy the item? |
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I for one couldn't care less about lay-aways. Its probably a HUGE headache for them and an inefficient use of their employee time and warehouse space (read: $$$). As far as guns and ammo - WalMart is profit-focused - as all for-profit companies should be. If the floorspace devotes to guns and ammo is making profit dollar per square foot that equals or exceeds other product types - then it will probably stay. If the space can generate better profit with a different product type - then it will probably be converted. I know folks want to see politics in this - but WalMart is profit driven and in my reading is highly resistant to outside political pressures. |
Im guesing you have never worked retail NO they can't they "rack disaprine" seriously have customers like that will pay $20-50 whatever a week on thier lay a way on payday , because they know if the money is in their pocket it will not survive the weekend |
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Wal-Mart is a LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR MASS MARKETER. If what you want is also desired by MILLIONS of other people, they'll probably carry it. If what you need is say, only wanted by tens of thousands of people, then you're gonna be SOL. They simply don't deal in "petty" quantities of ANYTHING. I think there's going to be a shift back towards other retailers and specialty shops here pretty soon. Wal-Mart has reached that "You'll buy it OUR WAY, or else!" stage that all large retailers seem to reach. For us old farts, we can remember MANY large, thriving companies whose demise was unthinkable in our day. Many of our young punks  here probably wouldn't even recognize the names now.
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All it would take for Wal-Mart to quit selling anything, let alone guns or ammo, is one high profile public incident regarding items purchased at Wal-Mart. Polishing their "corporate image" is the new mantra in Bentonville and nothing rubs them the wrong way like the name Wal-Mart being associated with anything that is controversial. Product availability is also driven by their marketing and sales data as they will sell wine, beer and tobacco products all day long since they make lots of money on these items and they bring in customers. These are dangerous items, but they are sold everywhere and not likely to be associated with only Wal-Mart. Guns, ammo, knives etc. are big in the fall but compared to alcohol and tobacco sales that are steady all year, they just aren't in the same league. I would bet ammo and firearms sales will be further curtailed once they discover that the removal of these items has not hurt sales in stores where they were discontinued. |
By reducing prices on a lot of items and making a variety of products available to the lower classes of the masses that weren't really available. Let's just put it this way in a lot of the country, an (insert your minority type here) would pay twice as much and get shitty service for the local Mom & Pop shops. If you were in West Bum Fuck Nowhere, Wal-Marat was likely the nearest or only place you could buy a computer. Might not be the best and service was iffy, but they had them, etc. |
You are exactly correct. |
| A few weeks ago I had a conversation with the Sports Goods manager at my local Wal-Mart. He told me that Wal-Mart is eliminating gun sales from stores that historically do not generate enough gun sales to justify the liability/risk from a botched transfer. The stores that generate enough sales will continue to sell guns and ammo. He also told me that Wal-Mart is experimenting with a new computerized information gathering system for gun sales where the customer will input data into a terminal on the counter. The computer will check to make sure all information is entered and then print the 4473 already completed ready for signature. He told me that while ATF will not be given on-demand access to the system they will be permitted to use the system during the course of any official investigation. |
So WalMart was part of the Democratic strategy to eliminate guns and " thousands" of Mom and Pop gun stores ? This has to be the MOST ridiculous anti-WalMart post yet . Where do you get this bullshit ? |
OK , so I buy an Item for $100 . I pay for it over the course of 60 days instead of all at once . After 60 days I bring the item home and I still only paid $100 . Who got the interest free loan here ? |
" the demise of thousands of small privately owned gun shops ". Thousands is plural for thousand . That means WALMART put at least 2000 gun shops out of business . TWO THOUSAND !!!!!!!!! The word BULLSHIT comes to mind ....... |
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I keep hearing about ammo being sold at discount, closeout sale prices. The Wal-Marts in the Tampa Bay area haven't put any .45ACP, 9mm, 5.56, .38 Special or .22lr ammo on sale. The prices have gone up. If they’re getting out of the ammo business, they better drop the prices.  |
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ammo prices at local stores have risen. I heard that only some stores were going to quit selling guns and ammo...dependent on geographic location. I've got an IDPA shoot this weekend, gonna get a box of WWB .40. Probably pick up 45 and 357 while I'm there. A very quick $70 spent. |
They had a variably increasing portion of that $100 for those 60 days, while you didn't have anything to show for it until the end. You could have been using that money to generate more money. You let them do that instead. |
That still doesn't make it an " interest free loan " . Hundreds of retailers offer lay-away and suddenly WALMART is evil for doing it . By the way , how much money would that $100 generate in 60 days ? Geez . |
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"but for someone like me who is on a very tight budget it does help to keep the costs of plinking ammo down" I have never bought ammo, except maybe a box shotshells, at Wal-Mart because it is too expensive. I have always found better deals on plinking ammo in 9mm, 7.62x39, 223, and 308 elsewhere. |
What's "lay-a-way"? |
The cheapest .45acp I found was at WALMART . $ 9.99 |