Styx
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What I find funny is the same people who are mad at Wal-Mart for stopping the sale of handguns, AR15s, ammo, etc will gladly take their business to other companies who don't and never sold those things in the first place. I'm also am not aware of any grocery store who is okay with open carry. IMHO if you want to do a side by side comparison, Wal-Mart is the biggest retailer or grocery store that sells gun related items and ammo. Even US commissaries, the second largest grocery store which is Kroger, and others don't sell ammo or support open carry.Somehow many here seem to think that WM will fall apart if they don’t sell a few boxes of ammo. I’m not a super retail expert, but I’m quite certain WM makes a whole lot greater gross profit on items other than sporting goods. I suspect sporting goods are more a loss leader to draw in customers.
When I was at Purdue I had to do a research article for a business class. I interviewed the owner of the largest sporting goods store in the area. I told him I wanted to start a sporting goods store, mainly firearms. He said the only reason he sold guns was because it was expected, and he would have gotten out of guns totally if he had his way.
I reckon Wal-Mart would loved more is they never was in the gun business at all. Didn't and never sold one box of ammo. That makes zero sense to me logically.