Lovely treatment at Wal*Mart tonight
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I always lie prostrate when I visit the dentist.
takhtakaal
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1KPerDay said:
Those aren't your teeth he's working on, then.
I will not purchase ammo at Walmart anymore due to very similar experiences. I purchase from Dicks Sporting goods, who have had good case prices and those working behind the counter have been friendly and professional. If you have a Dicks in your area, I recommend you go there.
Na, it's got to do w/ being a bad person or a good person. With or without work ethic. Polite or not. I promise he's like this at work or at home, probably why he hasn't found a better paying job...
Sorry that happened to you, I get crappy treatment at walmart gun counters. I just deal w/ it, and if it's real bad just complain to the boss.:banghead:
jackstinson
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Interestingly enough, the four Dick's in my area are understocked and overpriced. Generally the lone employee in the sporting goods section heads for the back room when they see someone coming. The last purchase I made from a Dick's was a "sale item" .22 spinner target that I saw later at Walmart for 2/3 the price. Dick's is great if you want a paintball or airsoft gun though! They have aisles packed full of them. A decent place for a kayak also.
I guess it all depends on the local stores and people in them.
Jack
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LOL
SamTuckerMTNMAN
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hmm...supply and demand friend, supply and demand
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ArfinGreebly
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Regional Attitudes
I live in North Idaho.
For the last four+ years I lived in Western (North) Nevada.
I show up at the sporting goods counter, I make small talk. I talk about their knife selection. Their flashlights. Ask what they think of different ammo brands, and "what about them prices, hey?"
Sooner or later I find the guy who works the counter with whom I can resonate. We chat about . . . whatever. My kids, his kids (her kids, in the most recent one), fishing, hunting, target shooting. Whatever.
I cultivate that relationship. I even get along with the curmudgeons. Maybe that's because I kind of are one.
When I show up for ammo, they already know me. We chat. We banter. I buy my stuff, and give whatever smart-ass answer is required when the rifle-or-pistol questions come up ("Hey, Frank, how come you never ask me about my .223 pistol?") and get them to double-bag it (hey, no fun when your ammo rips the bag), and bid them good day.
And I do this in every store where I buy ammo. Wal*Mart included.
The gal who works the sporting goods counter here in Post Falls shoots black powder, owns a couple of Gerber knives, skins game with a small knife, can start a fire with flint in under ten seconds, wins chili cook-offs (prefers cast iron), and has snow nearly up to her waist out at her place.
The guy in Reno with whom I frequently chatted wound up going out and buying his own Rock Island 1911.
Other store in Reno, I just avoided the resident jerk (yeah, you get one once in a while) and talked to whoever was there when he wasn't.
And so on.
When you make friends with the staff, your level of customer service improves.
I live in North Idaho.
For the last four+ years I lived in Western (North) Nevada.
I show up at the sporting goods counter, I make small talk. I talk about their knife selection. Their flashlights. Ask what they think of different ammo brands, and "what about them prices, hey?"
Sooner or later I find the guy who works the counter with whom I can resonate. We chat about . . . whatever. My kids, his kids (her kids, in the most recent one), fishing, hunting, target shooting. Whatever.
I cultivate that relationship. I even get along with the curmudgeons. Maybe that's because I kind of are one.
When I show up for ammo, they already know me. We chat. We banter. I buy my stuff, and give whatever smart-ass answer is required when the rifle-or-pistol questions come up ("Hey, Frank, how come you never ask me about my .223 pistol?") and get them to double-bag it (hey, no fun when your ammo rips the bag), and bid them good day.
And I do this in every store where I buy ammo. Wal*Mart included.
The gal who works the sporting goods counter here in Post Falls shoots black powder, owns a couple of Gerber knives, skins game with a small knife, can start a fire with flint in under ten seconds, wins chili cook-offs (prefers cast iron), and has snow nearly up to her waist out at her place.
The guy in Reno with whom I frequently chatted wound up going out and buying his own Rock Island 1911.
Other store in Reno, I just avoided the resident jerk (yeah, you get one once in a while) and talked to whoever was there when he wasn't.
And so on.
When you make friends with the staff, your level of customer service improves.
Old Dog
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Gee, I love a good Wal-Mart thread (and obviously, many enjoy the chance to tee off on Wally World).
Stores in my area try to stay competitive with the base exchanges, so prices aren't bad. Service at my two local Wal-Mart stores is usually as friendly as any other retail stores in the region, in fact, I get friendlier (maybe not the most efficient) customer service at Wal-Marts than I experience at a lot of high-end stores in the Puget Sound area.
Lots of thin-skinned people when it comes to ammo/firearms store service, it seems. No excuse for rude behavior if based on a customer's ethnic group, age, gender though, of course.
Only questions I get at the W-M ammo counter are, "Sure you don't need some more .45? No .357 today?"
Stores in my area try to stay competitive with the base exchanges, so prices aren't bad. Service at my two local Wal-Mart stores is usually as friendly as any other retail stores in the region, in fact, I get friendlier (maybe not the most efficient) customer service at Wal-Marts than I experience at a lot of high-end stores in the Puget Sound area.
Lots of thin-skinned people when it comes to ammo/firearms store service, it seems. No excuse for rude behavior if based on a customer's ethnic group, age, gender though, of course.
Only questions I get at the W-M ammo counter are, "Sure you don't need some more .45? No .357 today?"
Im283
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Since bashing WalMart seems to be the thing here I thought I would add this.
I buy ammo from three different WalMarts here in and around Knoxville.
The store near Gallaher View Rd is pretty good. While I often have to seek out a clerk, the automotive department is right nearby and they are always helpful in every way they can. They cover sporting goods when the sporting goods guy is at lunch. The clerks in sporting goods never hassle me, always are friendly. Never ask for ID or what weapon I am buying ammo for.
In Halls you almost always have to find someone, but it has yet to be a real hassle. They are mostly younger guys who are helpful and never give me attitude. They just make small talk and such. I particularly enjoy dealing with one of the woman there. She is approaching senior citizen age I guess-timate, and can't bend over too well. But she gets down on the floor and digs out whatever I ask about. Always asks if there is anything else she can help me find.
On Millertown Pike they are helpful as well. The ammo cases are always well stocked and help always seems nearby.
I don't know why I have such good experiences at WalMart while you all mostly hate on them . Maybe we have good southern hospitality here or something.
I love WalMart.
I buy ammo from three different WalMarts here in and around Knoxville.
The store near Gallaher View Rd is pretty good. While I often have to seek out a clerk, the automotive department is right nearby and they are always helpful in every way they can. They cover sporting goods when the sporting goods guy is at lunch. The clerks in sporting goods never hassle me, always are friendly. Never ask for ID or what weapon I am buying ammo for.
In Halls you almost always have to find someone, but it has yet to be a real hassle. They are mostly younger guys who are helpful and never give me attitude. They just make small talk and such. I particularly enjoy dealing with one of the woman there. She is approaching senior citizen age I guess-timate, and can't bend over too well. But she gets down on the floor and digs out whatever I ask about. Always asks if there is anything else she can help me find.
On Millertown Pike they are helpful as well. The ammo cases are always well stocked and help always seems nearby.
I don't know why I have such good experiences at WalMart while you all mostly hate on them . Maybe we have good southern hospitality here or something.
I love WalMart.
fearless leader
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Customer Dis-service
I have visited several Wal-marts where they won't sell ammo after 9PM.
What difference does it make WHEN you buy ammo?
They explained to me that there is nothing legitimate to do with ammo after 9PM.
I guess they never heard of someone preparing for a range day or hunting day to come in the morning, I guess.
Then going to the door (they escorted me out as if I'm RADIOACTIVE or something)
I asked why they escort me out of the door for ammo? I didn't buy a GUN and ammo. 
He told me it's policy to walk anyone out of the store when they buy guns OR ammo. Suppose I was going to do something. What excactly was he going to do about it? Tell me to stop?
I didn't tell him that I was wearing a Glock 20 in my waistband, as he didn't have the NEED TO KNOW!
I go to gun shops in my town, and almost none of them carry ammo of any significant amounts because Wal-Mart is the peoples' store of choice for ammo.
The Evil Wal-Mart doesn't carry Gold Dots, or 10mm.
I have visited several Wal-marts where they won't sell ammo after 9PM.
What difference does it make WHEN you buy ammo?
They explained to me that there is nothing legitimate to do with ammo after 9PM.
I guess they never heard of someone preparing for a range day or hunting day to come in the morning, I guess.
Then going to the door (they escorted me out as if I'm RADIOACTIVE or something)
I asked why they escort me out of the door for ammo? I didn't buy a GUN and ammo. He told me it's policy to walk anyone out of the store when they buy guns OR ammo. Suppose I was going to do something. What excactly was he going to do about it? Tell me to stop?
I didn't tell him that I was wearing a Glock 20 in my waistband, as he didn't have the NEED TO KNOW!
I go to gun shops in my town, and almost none of them carry ammo of any significant amounts because Wal-Mart is the peoples' store of choice for ammo.
The Evil Wal-Mart doesn't carry Gold Dots, or 10mm.
chieftain
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SIGH!!!!!!
Where do you go after your local shop treats you badly too? Please keep up the lesson of Econ 101? You know the chapter that tells us about paying more for what we purchase? I must of missed that one.
Or is my money supposed to go to the folks YOU think my money should go to?
The ammunition I buy is made in America. I have received good service AND bad service in virtually every store I go into regularly.
At several Local gun stores I have to wait for the counter guy, who is usually being paid less than the guy at Wall-Mart, to finish telling his story about beer drinking. Then often being told I know nothing about shooting from a guy I would have “encouraged to stand correctly” while a DI 37 years ago in the Corps.
Somebody said it. Service sucks every where, and good service pops up everywhere too. I have found good service doesn’t have much to do what a person gets paid either. If you believed that only money buys good service, you must not think much of the boy’s in the military.
Good people are good people and pukes are pukes. It aint’ about price.
BINGO!
I wish I could find Ammo for $3 per box of 50 more. (read that $6 per 100 and $60 per thousand).
I used to make $50 dollars an hour straight time, until I retired last year. So NOT being to bright, that is the standard I use on my time. I find many other services and business’s waste a lot more of my time than Wall-Mart. And they don’t save me near as much money either.
Best part of America is I get to choose where and when I spend MOST of my money.
No Wally World employee is making minimum wage and they do have benefits available.. And I don’t think I have ever bought ammunition from anyone making $35 dollars an hour in a small shop, and I do know most of them DO NOT have benefits. In fact most gun shop ‘help’ are making less than the folks at Wally World and without benefits. Yup.
Nope. At Wally world they have been Selling shooting supplies for over 50 years. I frankly don’t know many gun shops, even my favorites, that have been doing it that long.
Only an idiot would go to a dentist for their prostrate. Probably says more about the customer than any thing else. I think if logic vs. emotion was used, more folks would choose appropriately, for themselves.
Go figure.
Fred
Where do you go after your local shop treats you badly too? Please keep up the lesson of Econ 101? You know the chapter that tells us about paying more for what we purchase? I must of missed that one.
Or is my money supposed to go to the folks YOU think my money should go to?
The ammunition I buy is made in America. I have received good service AND bad service in virtually every store I go into regularly.
At several Local gun stores I have to wait for the counter guy, who is usually being paid less than the guy at Wall-Mart, to finish telling his story about beer drinking. Then often being told I know nothing about shooting from a guy I would have “encouraged to stand correctly” while a DI 37 years ago in the Corps.
Somebody said it. Service sucks every where, and good service pops up everywhere too. I have found good service doesn’t have much to do what a person gets paid either. If you believed that only money buys good service, you must not think much of the boy’s in the military.
Good people are good people and pukes are pukes. It aint’ about price.
BINGO!
I wish I could find Ammo for $3 per box of 50 more. (read that $6 per 100 and $60 per thousand).
I used to make $50 dollars an hour straight time, until I retired last year. So NOT being to bright, that is the standard I use on my time. I find many other services and business’s waste a lot more of my time than Wall-Mart. And they don’t save me near as much money either.
Best part of America is I get to choose where and when I spend MOST of my money.
No Wally World employee is making minimum wage and they do have benefits available.. And I don’t think I have ever bought ammunition from anyone making $35 dollars an hour in a small shop, and I do know most of them DO NOT have benefits. In fact most gun shop ‘help’ are making less than the folks at Wally World and without benefits. Yup.
Nope. At Wally world they have been Selling shooting supplies for over 50 years. I frankly don’t know many gun shops, even my favorites, that have been doing it that long.
Only an idiot would go to a dentist for their prostrate. Probably says more about the customer than any thing else. I think if logic vs. emotion was used, more folks would choose appropriately, for themselves.
Go figure.
Fred
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relationships, the fourth R word
leave it to a MOD to make sense.
+1 on that one. . .
leave it to a MOD to make sense.
+1 on that one. . .
takhtakaal
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ArfinGreebly said:
I hear you, Arf, and I do have a WM that's a lot closer to me than the one I visited whilst suburban hunting and gathering last night. In the closer one, the gal who usually works mornings knows me, and knows that when she sees me buzzing by the department, it usually means an ammo sale. We get on well enough. She isn't a gunnie, but the central casting cantankerous old fart who works most nights is, and loves to tell me all about what he knows of coming increases. Neither one of them have apparent issues, and if they do, they're professional enough to focus on the green stuff and carry on, despite misgivings.
I didn't mean for the thread to be a Wal*Mart pile-on, but just a vent for crappy treatment. What kind of surprised me was that the location that we went to is in an environment that is much more mixed-up personnel-wise than where we live, which is on the edge of truly rural and pretty monochromatic. I've spoken to Wal*Mart corporate and should be getting a call some time in the next few days from one flak-catcher or another, undoubtedly by way of some sort of flowery, but meaningless apology.
Ahhhh....Wal-Mart. I live in Gulfport, MS and let me tell you that the WM here is perhaps the worst in the country. Anytime I go back to look at ammo, there is no one at the "gun counter". And if by luck someone is there the attitude is so dismal that I just grab some 12 ga. shells and go on my way. The local Academy Sports has decent prices on ammo so I'm happy to buy it from there. Plus, the guys there know what they're talking about so it works out.
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Generally I don't shop wal-mart. I buy bread flower there and that is about it. In watching prices I realized except for the "specials" they run, none of their prices are any better then my local stores, and I have even seen prices higher. My ammo I buy online as I can usually get better prices even with shipping, or from my local gun shop. The local gun shop is pricey but not that pricey and sometimes I need some ammo like 9mm makarov which isn't readily available in other (Wal-Mart) stores. Just my 2c worth.
Dravur
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Aye, I know all three stores and they get a good chunk of my paycheck already. I happened to run over to Wal-mart on North Main today and bought 1650 rds of federal .22 ammo. The guy behind the counter handed me the ammo, we rang it up and I paid him. No questions as to rifle vs pistol, no asking for ID. Nothing.
Twas a pleasant experience and now I have a ton of fodder for my new GSG-5.
Jensens is evil. They keep on getting things in there that I have to have.
Damn them...hehe
and I have ordered online quite often. When I was in Lakewood, the UPS guy sent me hate mail.
Aye, I know all three stores and they get a good chunk of my paycheck already. I happened to run over to Wal-mart on North Main today and bought 1650 rds of federal .22 ammo. The guy behind the counter handed me the ammo, we rang it up and I paid him. No questions as to rifle vs pistol, no asking for ID. Nothing.
Twas a pleasant experience and now I have a ton of fodder for my new GSG-5.
Jensens is evil. They keep on getting things in there that I have to have.
Damn them...hehe
and I have ordered online quite often. When I was in Lakewood, the UPS guy sent me hate mail.
LiquidTension
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The Wal-Mart employees I've talked to have usually been polite, though rarely do they know anything about guns or ammo. They did card me one time while I was in uniform with a gun and badge on my belt
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While it might not be explicit federal law for them to ask, the reason they are asking is to comply with federal law. It's a violation of federal law to sell ammo other than for rifle and shotguns to a person under 21. In the case of ammo that can be used for both, case law has established that the store only needs to be reasonable sure of the intended use and that asking the person is sufficient. Basically, if a someone who is twenty says it is for a rifle then goes home and shoots someone using a pistol, the store won't be in trouble for supplying him with the ammunition while underage.
So yes, except in the most pedantic of senses, she was asking you to comply with federal law.
fearless leader
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I was at a wally world where a guy was telling me if I bought a Winchester 30-30, it would also shoot 35 Remington, which is absurd; the projectile is a different diameter!
This was the Sales Clerk!
This was the Sales Clerk!
Inexspensive Ammo
When you guys are tired of dealing with Richard Cranium at the local store, go to this website. www.mastercast.net This is Mastercast Bullet Co. I send them 1000 brass at a time and have it reloaded. Their Ammo is good shooting, clean, and affordable. Now this is not as hot as Factory Self Defense Ammo but, it makes for a good practice Ammo and is not a wimp load. I would not be afraid to use it as a Self Defense Ammo but, I still use Factory Ammo for that purpose. I don't have room for Reloading Supply's or Equipment so this is the next best thing. If you wanted a specific load I am sure the could work it up for you. I talked to them on the Phone be for I ordered and they seem very nice and were very helpful. I have 2000 rounds of their 38spl.+p on hand and 4000 rounds of 357. When the weather gets warm and I get back to the Woods Camping, "Let the good times roll".
When you guys are tired of dealing with Richard Cranium at the local store, go to this website. www.mastercast.net This is Mastercast Bullet Co. I send them 1000 brass at a time and have it reloaded. Their Ammo is good shooting, clean, and affordable. Now this is not as hot as Factory Self Defense Ammo but, it makes for a good practice Ammo and is not a wimp load. I would not be afraid to use it as a Self Defense Ammo but, I still use Factory Ammo for that purpose. I don't have room for Reloading Supply's or Equipment so this is the next best thing. If you wanted a specific load I am sure the could work it up for you. I talked to them on the Phone be for I ordered and they seem very nice and were very helpful. I have 2000 rounds of their 38spl.+p on hand and 4000 rounds of 357. When the weather gets warm and I get back to the Woods Camping, "Let the good times roll".
learn2shoot
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I once asked for "38 S&W, not 38 Special" He then said we have 3 kinds which do you want. I asked "Are you sure it is 38 S&W and not 38 Special" he told me the he was very well trained by WalMart and it was exactly the same.
I asked to see the box and opened it to compare it to the 38 S&W I had in my pocket - I showed him the difference. He was floored at the difference... and thought outloud geez I wonder what that would have done - I answered - on a hundred year old gun - it would have exploded in my hand.
He appologized and I left (with a brick of .22)
I asked to see the box and opened it to compare it to the 38 S&W I had in my pocket - I showed him the difference. He was floored at the difference... and thought outloud geez I wonder what that would have done - I answered - on a hundred year old gun - it would have exploded in my hand.
He appologized and I left (with a brick of .22)
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