Wallyworld wiped out!!!!

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My experience has been that Wally world stays wiped out of anything that sells.
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I think that happens a lot in any retail business.

I work part time at Sears unloading trucks. We get advance truck loads of items that are supposed to be on sale or on promotion during a particular week. That should be great right? No...because many times we sell all the items that are on next weeks sale at the regular price prior to the sale/promotion because folks want them. So now we have barely any for the week of the sale and folks have to get a rain check.

Make sense? Nope..but that's retail for ya.

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Ok, I can appreciate the stocking up of ammo for condition orange!! I, myself, have laid in 3000 rounds of .22RF!!! Hey, I'm relatively poor and stock what quantity I can!!

The tax angle was explained to me by the owner of the gunshop I frequent. I just don't see an outfit like Wallyworld panicing over paying some taxes!!

I think the gangpunks in the area had a hell of a new years day celibration!!!
 
The tax angle was explained to me by the owner of the gunshop I frequent. I just don't see an outfit like Wallyworld panicing over paying some taxes!!
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I can see a large corporation like Wally World having a huge tax bill and cutting every corner they can like most other people.
 
I just don't see an outfit like Wallyworld panicing over paying some taxes!!
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What, are you kidding ? Those pirates would sell their mothers if it would save them .01 points of margin. You might have no idea what they do to squeeze every bit of profit from a vendor.

People who buy at Walmart are shopping themselves out of jobs IMHO, but that is off topic.

Besides, in my area, Wal Mart ammo (except .22 LR value packs) is more expensive than it is at my preferred local range by 30-60%.

Example: USA Shooting in Lindon UT sells Federal American Eagle or PMC in .45 ACP for well under 10.00/box. Walmart in this area sells (inferior brass) Remington UMC ammo for 16.99/box and Winchester USA white box for 14.99.

And if any of the Walmarts in this area stock more than a few boxes, I have yet to see it.
 
I picked up some ammo at two different walmarts this past weekend (four 15rd value packs of buckshot at a Walmart in VA (the counter person and the local next in line went like this: :what: when I said "alright, I'll take all you've got"), all they had, as my local walmart only stocks the 5/$4 copper plated stuff, and then 1k of .22, 100 birdshot, and two 40rd value packs of .223 (I dont have the cash for a case at the moment and my .223 stash is really low) at my local walmart two days later). I think both were out of .45acp value packs, I know my local one was. Luckily, I've got a stash to hold me over until the local place restocks. :D

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Luckily, I've got a stash to hold me over until the local place restocks.
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Here's my old Subaru after I picked up some 9mm for myself and a couple of shooting buddies just before the holidays.
 

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Looking at it from a handloaders perspective, you folks are your own worst enemies. By just a few buying the entire supplies, the rest of the shooters are caught in the shortcomings as they then have none to purchase. We handloaders did the same thing to ourselves in the primer shortage of the 80's. A few of us would wipe out the shelves as soon as shipments came in and the casual user would have none at all to buy. Limits were placed upon us by the stores trying to look out for all the consumers. We actually inflated the price ourselves. I'm afraid you are headed down the same path. With the amount of Wally Worlds available and the fact that they try to keep an adequate stock on hand why must you stockpile thousands of cartridges at a time? Most people travel pass at least one Wally World in the weekly travels. How long does it honestly take you to shoot thousands of rounds of ammo compared to the number of times you have actually traveled by the stores?
 
Wally World's inventory is computer monitored. Each store's inventory tracking and sales computer system tells the home office in Arkansas each and every day what was sold in the past 24 hours.

By selling more the stocking order amount for that store will eventually be increased automatically. Which is why it would better to buy 3 boxes a week instead of 12 boxes a month. The system would show the sales as steady. Of course you could ask the sporting goods manager to order more, but sales would have to justify the increase for it to remain the norm.

Each department manager wants to see a sales increase over the previous years sales. It counts towards their yearly brownie points. Excess inventory sitting on the shelves counts against them.

Also if you can find the exact same ammo cheaper somewhere else, buy it and bring the sales receipt to the department and store managers. There's a good chance they will do a price match. And it has even been know for a store to permanently drop the everyday price to be competitive. Especially on Hyrda-Shok and other premium ammo.
 
Bought 2 boxes of 100 rds win white box today asked if they had any more guy looked at me like i was going to rob the store
 
The week of new years is the #1 ammo selling week of the year! It takes a while for places like walmart to recover.

David
 
Tis the season for department store inventory. Christmas is over and the returns are all in, so the less they have on the shelves the less they have to inventory.
 
Bought 2 boxes of 100 rds win white box today asked if they had any more guy looked at me like i was going to rob the store
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Last summer, a friend and I stopped into wally world to buy ammo for an upcoming class. (Defensive Edge in MN, great training.) We were both taking .45s, and asked the woman behind the counter how many of the value packs they had. She responded "two cases". We said we'd take both, and spent the next couple of minutes explaining that we meant both cases, not just two boxes.
 
I ask him if he has any "Value Packs of .45 Ay Cee Pee". He responds "no, all I have is 45 Auto".
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funny - same thing happened to me not a week ago.

Asked the sporting goods geezer (guy was like, seriously, in his 70s, which mistakenly made me think he knew something about guns) for two boxes of CCI Blazer .45 ACP.

He gives me a blank look, and says "We don't carry that."

I give him a look, and say "Are you sure?" (having just bought two boxes there a month ago)

He gets a funny look, and says "I don't know what ACP is" or something to that effect.

Resisting the urge to roll my eyes, I say "It's also sometimes called .45 auto, or colt .45"

He then brightens up and says "Oh! .45 Auto! Lemme see what kinds we got..."

He was very helpful, and I wasn't really all that annoyed by the exchange...

But seriously, how could you not know that .45 ACP and .45 Auto are the same thing?
 
I'm sure people have accidentally picked up some .45 Long Colt instead of .45ACP if they weren't paying attention at the time.
 
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