Well I want to say thank you to the person who posted as to checking walmart stock online. I had been calling each night from 9:30 -12:00 and was not having any success. Some stores would say they had nothing others would just say we will not tell you and others would say no no no. I had been doing this and calling in the morning only to be told by the morning guy that they sold out of the night befores shipment in as soon as they brought it out at 7:00 am. This was frustrating to say the least. You could tell these workers were tired of this extra burden of the ammo crunch. Others were flat out rude and even said tough luck you will just have to make the drive and wait and hope we will not tell you what we have.
So at 8:00pm the wife and I headed to a store that walmarts site had remington 225 packs "In Stock". It takes 1hr 10min to get there even pushing the speed limit. We walk straight back to the counter and was asked how can I help you. I told him the stores inventory showed he has in stock the 22 ammo and he reaches under the counter and pulls out 1 box. I tell him I would like 3 he said no. My wife says I would like 3 as well. Immediately This is going sideways he says he will give us a box each and thats it and says he doesn't care what the signs say about 3 he is not going to do it. pushes the 2 box at me and says you can take them up front. I told him I was unhappy and would be talking to a manager.
I went to see the manager I was polite and he was polite and we walked back to the back only to find another couple red faced as they had just been refused more than 1 box each. They had 1 box 22 and 1 223. They said the sales associate said that is all he was giving them and that he was going on brake he didn't care. He had also pulled their ammo from under the counter. So The manager bent down and said I don't see anything under here when the other customer pointed to where he had been reaching. Now the manager pulls out another box of each and the sales guy walks up being loud saying this ain't right I have a guy coming from 25 miles away to get some. So now he thinks he has the right to hold it and say how much you can have. The manager told the other couple He would take care of us first and then them. The other couple had expressed they really wanted the 223 so I let them have it. They told the manager that when the other guy got rude and said he was going to take his break he left with ammo in his hands.
So now my blood pressure going thru the roof and I am actually proud at how well behaved I was.
Store 2 we hit without any hint of what they had and they had nothing in the case. I ask if I can get help in the sporting goods and a young guy shows up and says "I was told we didn't get any ammo in tonight. I asked if he could look through the pallet because I can see 223 sitting there. He pulled the 223 and says without touching another box we don't have any 22lr. I said fine if thats how it is we will just take the 223 3 boxes for me and 1 for the wife BUT we would really have 22lr. He shrugs his shoulders and has us follow him to check out at electronics. I realized when we got home he never put the tax stamp on it either. I was mad that he would not look for what we wanted.
Store #3 has shows online that it still has some of the remington 22lr 225rd box. So we drive 21 miles to get there and has the shift manager tell me the online inventory is wrong because he was sold out at 7:15am. Its now 11:00pm and I ask if anything came in tonight and he tells me that they keep all ammo in a room in the back and will not sell any or bring it out until 7:00am and no he will not tell me what he has. I stayed polite and asked him how he figured this was fair for the guy that worked day shift for a living. Its safe to say that the people driving up the prices were people who had no day job and with his setup the guy that works days gets no ammo forcing him to buy it for higher prices. I spent 30 minutes trying to reason with him only to be told i would need to be inline by 5 am if I were going to buy anything at 7. I left and hit one other store on the way home which had no 22lr but did have 40 and 9MM.
Its now 3:11am and I am thinking about making the long drive back to store 3 just to say I am here and maybe not find a single round.
The only other place we have is a dicks sporting goods. So its hard to get any 22lr without dealing with gougers which is so sad.
So at 8:00pm the wife and I headed to a store that walmarts site had remington 225 packs "In Stock". It takes 1hr 10min to get there even pushing the speed limit. We walk straight back to the counter and was asked how can I help you. I told him the stores inventory showed he has in stock the 22 ammo and he reaches under the counter and pulls out 1 box. I tell him I would like 3 he said no. My wife says I would like 3 as well. Immediately This is going sideways he says he will give us a box each and thats it and says he doesn't care what the signs say about 3 he is not going to do it. pushes the 2 box at me and says you can take them up front. I told him I was unhappy and would be talking to a manager.
I went to see the manager I was polite and he was polite and we walked back to the back only to find another couple red faced as they had just been refused more than 1 box each. They had 1 box 22 and 1 223. They said the sales associate said that is all he was giving them and that he was going on brake he didn't care. He had also pulled their ammo from under the counter. So The manager bent down and said I don't see anything under here when the other customer pointed to where he had been reaching. Now the manager pulls out another box of each and the sales guy walks up being loud saying this ain't right I have a guy coming from 25 miles away to get some. So now he thinks he has the right to hold it and say how much you can have. The manager told the other couple He would take care of us first and then them. The other couple had expressed they really wanted the 223 so I let them have it. They told the manager that when the other guy got rude and said he was going to take his break he left with ammo in his hands.
So now my blood pressure going thru the roof and I am actually proud at how well behaved I was.
Store 2 we hit without any hint of what they had and they had nothing in the case. I ask if I can get help in the sporting goods and a young guy shows up and says "I was told we didn't get any ammo in tonight. I asked if he could look through the pallet because I can see 223 sitting there. He pulled the 223 and says without touching another box we don't have any 22lr. I said fine if thats how it is we will just take the 223 3 boxes for me and 1 for the wife BUT we would really have 22lr. He shrugs his shoulders and has us follow him to check out at electronics. I realized when we got home he never put the tax stamp on it either. I was mad that he would not look for what we wanted.
Store #3 has shows online that it still has some of the remington 22lr 225rd box. So we drive 21 miles to get there and has the shift manager tell me the online inventory is wrong because he was sold out at 7:15am. Its now 11:00pm and I ask if anything came in tonight and he tells me that they keep all ammo in a room in the back and will not sell any or bring it out until 7:00am and no he will not tell me what he has. I stayed polite and asked him how he figured this was fair for the guy that worked day shift for a living. Its safe to say that the people driving up the prices were people who had no day job and with his setup the guy that works days gets no ammo forcing him to buy it for higher prices. I spent 30 minutes trying to reason with him only to be told i would need to be inline by 5 am if I were going to buy anything at 7. I left and hit one other store on the way home which had no 22lr but did have 40 and 9MM.
Its now 3:11am and I am thinking about making the long drive back to store 3 just to say I am here and maybe not find a single round.
The only other place we have is a dicks sporting goods. So its hard to get any 22lr without dealing with gougers which is so sad.
