My Walmart Random Time Ammo Sales

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I find it hard to believe there are any scalpers at wall mart. Waiting for hours in line to get the possibility to buy 3 boxes total does not seem like a profitable venture to me. Probably just regular guys like yourself that want to go shooting.
 
Well...if Walmart isn't going to bump their prices to the equilibrium point, then I'm fine with them changing their selling policies. The micro-economics of ammo sales at WM during a temporary spike in demand isn't driven by a capitalistic free market right now. What will eventually happen, using the past as our assumption for future activity is the demand will eventually bring supplies back up to where WM's prices are at their estimated equilibrium point again.

After going through all of this in 2008, I'm happy that I stocked up from 2009 - 2012, but haven't had time to go shooting in the past year. :(
 
At least around here, the scalper just watches, but upon stock arriving, they have a network of family/friends who collectively buy (a married couple and small extended family only needs one watcher but could easily buy a full case of ammo with 3 box limits several cases with 3 box/caliber limits).
 
I have never bought ammo to resell, but I would like a couple of bricks of 22 long rifle to put through my10 22. I miss the good old hi cap mags days rapid fire. The new prices have been stppoing me almost as much as the unavailability.:)
 
nelsonal said:
At least around here, the scalper just watches, but upon stock arriving, they have a network of family/friends who collectively buy (a married couple and small extended family only needs one watcher but could easily buy a full case of ammo with 3 box limits several cases with 3 box/caliber limits).
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Wow that seems even less likely. How much time wasted for the scalper himself to wait for hours, but multiple people have nothing to do but wait hours to maybe get 3 boxes of ammo?
 
The others aren't waiting, they're going about their day, they come when called that the observed store has demanded product in stock. Dick's is predictable in that new stock is almost always there when the store opens only, so it's not like the whole clan is milling around the store all the time. There are a large number of Americans who have very low opportunity costs to be somewhere when called, and the markup on .22lr/9mm etc exceeds that pretty dramatically.
 
nelsonal said:
The others aren't waiting, they're going about their day, they come when called that the observed store has demanded product in stock. Dick's is predictable in that new stock is almost always there when the store opens only, so it's not like the whole clan is milling around the store all the time. There are a large number of Americans who have very low opportunity costs to be somewhere when called, and the markup on .22lr/9mm etc exceeds that pretty dramatically.
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im sorry i am extremely dubious. by the time he paid these other bodies it just wouldnt be worth it unless possibly getting large bulk packs.
sounds too much like a conspiracy.
 
I find it hard to believe there are any scalpers at wall mart. Waiting for hours in line to get the possibility to buy 3 boxes total does not seem like a profitable venture to me.
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The Wal Mart here said that they were scalping, that's why they went to the 3 box rule, to stop it.
Don't know how accurate it is, but it's what the 17 year old kid with acne and the Justin Beaver haircut behind the sporting goods counter said, so it must be true.
 
Socialism is not a bad thing
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it dont work

we can force Walmart to put it all out in the morning and not allow them to randomly put the ammo on their shelves when they see fit. They are a privately owned and nobody should be able to tell them when, why and where they can stock their shelves.
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nobody made them
 
Vern Humphrey said:
Let me guess -- you voted for Obama.:rolleyes:

Socialism is not a bad thing if you are on the receiving end. It's pure hell for the guy on the giving end -- no matter how hard he works, he never gets ahead.
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to be fair,i think he was saying its not bad if its done right. either way, it ends bad if you ax me
 
As the original poster, I want to say thanks for making this interesting.

Yes, Walmart will still book the same total sales each day.

Think about this...say a duo team scores 6 of the 550 boxes for $20 out the door. Then sells at, what, $70 each. That is a $300 profit.

Skipping your work three days a week, or being late will not improve your job security, will it? But in my little scheme, if you stop at Wallyword at lunch or after work, you now have a chance. The cost to make those 22s didn't jump, so I give Walmart a lot of credit for not price gouging. But this is why the hoarders descended on the stores at 6AM.

I am a free market capitalist, one of few survivors of being in direct competition with hishonor Bloomberg in the finance software business. Retired since 1989, my favorite hobby is controlling big prairie dogs here on western ranches....with my various 22LR rifles. I have been trying to get one or two of you guys to come shoot here....if you bring your own darn bricks.
 
I'm sure there are tons of scalpers, I just doubt they are a big problem at wal mart right now.
I've already shot most of a case (5000) .22 in bullseye this year.
 
Walmart is selling ammo at fair market. Be glad. I scored a box of automatch Thursday, I left two boxes I could have also bought on the shelf for someone else.

A husband and wife grabbed 600 rounds of 9mm. Not much love for other shooters. Don't blame walmart.
 
Let them buy It's a free market. Supply will eventually catch up and prices will drop
 
Like I said before, no, they don't want to sell out to one guy in the first transaction. They want to lure people in with the hope that ammo will be there. Kind of like the lottery. The more folks who will report that they won a box or three in the "WalMart ammo lottery" the more of their friends and neighbors will come on down to play the game ... and maybe buy some toilet paper or a new TV...
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IMO, all the ore reason to vary the times its put on the shelf.... so that hopefully the same 6 guys don't keep getting it all. The more 'winner' the more the winning story is told.
 
My walmart has the unloaders bring it out whenever the truck gets finished at night. So the time is random, which is good because it discourages loitering. Lol

The three box limit was done to keep a larger number of people somewhat happy instead of just a few very happy. It keeps one guy from clearing off a shelf.

The prices have not gone way up because they deal in high volume-low mark up sales by nature and are still making a killing. Although the mark ups are often 50% or more. They also don't want bad PR that would cost them customer loyalty. They like being the shining beacon that has not succumb to price gouging.
 
I believe they should start only selling ammo to people with another in store minimum purchase, stop those that are only running in and buying ammo every morning. Their's an argument to be made that their ammo prices are like a "loss leader"
 
quote; "I know there are people here that have and do because they feel they have no choice"

This what I don't get , the mindset of some firearm enthusiasts. We NEED water, we NEED food, we may even need fuel.

But nobody NEEDS to go shooting, and yes I am one who loves to shoot. For most of us, it is but a hobby/passion. Yet some act like addicts paying anything to get their fix.

If people would just stop buying for a while all this would go away. Right now those who pay $1 a rd for .223 or $50 for a brick of .22 are being used. And in that, the rest of us suffer also.

Scalpers or horders or flippers or whatever you call them don't want this to end, they are doubling even tripling their money off your fear.
 
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