Perfecta ammo deleted at Walmart

DWalt said:
I noticed that yesterday when I was in the Wal-Mart in Uvalde TX there was NO Perfecta ammo on the shelves. And in this location, they generally carried a good supply. But I didn't ask why. I have to wonder what happened?
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My WalMart manager friend said that the factory (in Italy) had some new NATO contracts due to the current conflicts, and was unwilling to continue to sell at the kinds of prices (discounts) and volumes the WalMart buyers demand. It was spotty supply to begin with.

The only thing remaining on the shelf in the Dallas / Plano area is some .45ACP and .223, but they won't last long.
 
hoc9sw said:
My WalMart manager friend said that the factory (in Italy) had some new NATO contracts due to the current conflicts, and was unwilling to continue to sell at the kinds of prices (discounts) and volumes the WalMart buyers demand. It was spotty supply to begin with.

The only thing remaining on the shelf in the Dallas / Plano area is some .45ACP and .223, but they won't last long.
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I'm calling BS on what that manager said. Perfecta is made by Fiochi and Fiochi is available all day every day in as large a supply as you want online for less than $10 a box shipped. So they can't make enough for Walmart but they can make a surplus for online sales that isn't even selling very well?
 
Found some perfecta at cheaper than dirt.

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Cal44 said:
I'm just hoping Walmart won't just quit selling ammo altogether.
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I'm not optomistic although I reload most everything but x39 and rimfire. The process appears that it will take more than your average Wally's employee can handle.

This is the year for Californians to stock up.
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Actually been doing that since 2009. Kinda ramped up this year though.
 
I went to the nearby WM yesterday PM. No Perfecta at all on the shelves. The drone employee working that area knew nothing about why not.
 
Brasky said:
I'm calling BS on what that manager said. Perfecta is made by Fiochi and Fiochi is available all day every day in as large a supply as you want online for less than $10 a box shipped. So they can't make enough for Walmart but they can make a surplus for online sales that isn't even selling very well?
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The guy I know is retired military spec ops, working just to stay out of the house, and not prone to BS, so I'll ignore that. But the Perfecta is coming out of the plant in Italy, not the US side.

I've known a WalMart / Sam's buyer for years, and to hear the pressure and pricing they demand is scary. She tells of many suppliers just walking away because they didn't care for the micro-management of the contracts and deliveries - better to sell somewhere else with fewer costs / headaches.
 
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I made it over to my Walmart today. They had nine boxes of 45 ACP for $15.44. I bought them all. No other calibers on the shelf. I asked the checker who is a regular and he had not heard about an end to Perfecta. Earlier in the day they put out a shipment that came in of other calibers. He said 9mm always first sold out.
 
b.guggenmos said:
I made it over to my Walmart today. They had nine boxes of 45 ACP for $15.44. I bought them all. No other calibers on the shelf. I asked the checker who is a regular and he had not heard about an end to Perfecta. Earlier in the day they put out a shipment that came in of other calibers. He said 9mm always first sold out.
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$15.44 is not a deal for brass 45, just saying

I don't have a 45 but the prices I've watched $13.50 per 50 shipped is the norm for brass cased and it can be had for $11.50 per 50 shipped if you watch sales
 
Brasky said:
$15.44 is not a deal for brass 45, just saying

I don't have a 45 but the prices I've watched $13.50 per 50 shipped is the norm for brass cased and it can be had for $11.50 per 50 shipped if you watch sales
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Yeah but I bet he didn't have to wait a week or more to get it either. I can run down to WM, pick up US ammo and be in the field or on the range in an hour or less. I picked up two 100 round boxes of Federal .223/55gr. for $37@ last week.

I don't particularly like burning cheap foreign ammo in my guns so I'm certainly not going to stockpile it. But hey, everybody has an opinion and it's your gun and your dollar. :cool:
 
At a local Walmart yesterday I saw Perfecta .357,40S&W,223 and 30.06

I asked the Sporting Goods manager about the discontinuance of Perfecta and he said that he did not receive any official word from corporate headquarters stating a stop so he keeps ordering more.

He did say that he has not gotten any Perfecta 9mm in a few months but got some 40S&W last week.
 
I was out at my closest WM yesterday. The girl who manages sporting goods is clueless about most things, but she does keep up with the ammo case to fend off the folks who buy to resell at gunshows.

They had a few boxes of Perfecta .380 and .308 that all looked like they had been stored out in a field. Asked her about them, and she said that they just showed up off an old unfilled order. She wasn't happy, as the inventory folks had sent her a new shelf layout that had no place for them. We looked at the warehouse schedule, and Perfecta is gone from their order list. I suspect it just depends on the distribution center. If they find some in a corner, they will send it.

She did say that if all the orders she had placed, which had never been filled, were to arrive, she would have ammo for our lifetimes.
 
Brasky said:
$15.44 is not a deal for brass 45, just saying

I don't have a 45 but the prices I've watched $13.50 per 50 shipped is the norm for brass cased and it can be had for $11.50 per 50 shipped if you watch sales
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I agree not the best deal but an easy painless purchase. All of the other 45 ACP was more expensive. I like the Perfecta as it is clean burning at least in 45 and 9mm. Prices for online sales are definitely coming down. I reload for all of my revolvers and plan on starting 45 ACP at some point? My whole point of the post was that Perfecta was available and still coming in.
 
Brasky said:
Sportsmansguide has 357 for $15-17 quite often with free shipping and 9mm for $9.49-9.99 almost daily and both caliber date brass cased. Steel cased choices are even less
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Brasky, thanks, good info. I'll check it out.
 
To all that suggest we just buy ammo on-line, a lot of us used to but our state legislatures are banning that.

We can't buy ammo online in NY unless it is sent to a licensed ammo seller. In the future there will be background checks done on ammo sales.

My anti-gun coworkers actually talk about banning more then 50 rounds of ammo in the home. This is what they say is done in some countries.


Some say if you can't ban guns you can limit ammo drastically.

This is a bigger threat than you think. Our local walmart has ALL firearm ammo and accessories including even a hand clay pigeon thrower behind locked glass cabinets. Even knives, tactical flashlights and holsters are locked up. ANYTHING gun related.

You don't realize how much could change fast... In 10 years we went from having capguns pulled from walmart to this.
 
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