A change in Walmart's 22 ammo?

[BC38]

If people didn't buy it, they wouldn't do it. Same goes for ticket scalping.

Yeah, I agree. I set my "limit" of what I'll pay at 7 cents per round. If its higher than that I don't buy it.

BUT there are people who will - just like there are people who will spend $10,000 a ticket (or whatever) to go to the Stupor Bowl.

 

[wild_weasel]

I check the ammo case every time I go to Wal-Mart, yesterday they had boxes of bulk Winchester 333 for $17 and I picked up 3. Today they had CCI Stinger and I picked up three of those too.

 

[smokindog]

Can you tell me PLEASE where I check that "I'm not a regular working folk" box as I do my taxes? I don't seem to find it.........

And BTW, if you think about it, LESS info levels the playing field for you (as the only self proclaimed regular working folk) as MORE effort has to be applied by those "so called" flippers to find the product.

Sounds like someone is feeling like a victim......

I never said it was an unfair advantage to the flippers, and would like to hear a logical argument for that. Where the flippers gain an advantage is having the time to cruise the stores IMO.Time that regular working folks don't have.

Equal access to the info about what's in stock levels the playing field as far as I can see.

 

[smokindog]

It was available down here last week but $12ish a box!!!!

I check the ammo case every time I go to Wal-Mart, yesterday they had boxes of bulk Winchester 333 for $17 and I picked up 3. Today they had CCI Stinger and I picked up three of those too.

 

[shakyshoot]

Oh yeah, this is a great development for all the flippers who do a loop of all the local Walmarts

I guess I'm not clear why it's a "great development" for them if it levels their playing field with everyone else. If that statement doesn't claim it's giving them an unfair advantage then I'm completely misunderstanding it.
It's always easy to assume that someone else is getting the ammo because they're unemployed. There's nothing preventing most people that have a 9 to 5 job from being at Walmart at 7 AM to buy ammo. The bottom line is that if you want ammo you have to go to the store and buy ammo. Complaining on the internet won't get you the ammo.

 

[BC38]

...It's always easy to assume that someone else is getting the ammo because they're unemployed.

I'm saying this makes it easier for the folks whose current "job" is to be a flipper. They spend their time cruising the gun shops, Walmarts, Cabelas, etc. picking up ammo that is in short supply to resell at 100% markup to those who can't spend the time doing that.

There's nothing preventing most people that have a 9 to 5 job from being at Walmart at 7 AM to buy ammo. The bottom line is that if you want ammo you have to go to the store and buy ammo. Complaining on the internet won't get you the ammo.

Maybe - if you work Banker's hours. I don't I work from 6 or 7 am until 4 or 5 pm most days. As I recently discovered my local Walmart is a 24 hour store, so I can stop by on my way to work - and believe me, I will start doing so pretty regularly. However, if my store opened at say 7am, it would be nearly impossible for me to get there check for ammo, and still get to work on time. Of course going after work is pointless - the flippers have bought it all up long before then.

 

[smokindog]

I'm retreating after this but you really need to recalibrate.

Since you started this "discussion" about how much harder you work than the rest of us, I've ordered 4 bulk boxes from the Cabelas website, picked up 9 bulk boxes at Walmart mid-day (including some M22), and another 6 of Winchester X in the evening.

I'll bet most of us here put in 50-60 hours a week and regardless of our job, have the same pressures of downsizing and "productivity". You seem to think that you are unique and in some ways I'll agree. Bless your heart.

Maybe - if you work Banker's hours. I don't I work from 6 or 7 am until 4 or 5 pm most days. As I recently discovered my local Walmart is a 24 hour store, so I can stop by on my way to work - and believe me, I will start doing so pretty regularly. However, if my store opened at say 7am, it would be nearly impossible for me to get there check for ammo, and still get to work on time. Of course going after work is pointless - the flippers have bought it all up long before then.

 

[BC38]

I'm retreating after this but you really need to recalibrate.

Since you started this "discussion" about how much harder you work than the rest of us, I've ordered 4 bulk boxes from the Cabelas website, picked up 9 bulk boxes at Walmart mid-day (including some M22), and another 6 of Winchester X in the evening.

I'll bet most of us here put in 50-60 hours a week and regardless of our job, have the same pressures of downsizing and "productivity". You seem to think that you are unique and in some ways I'll agree. Bless your heart.

Nothing could be further from the truth - and that is my point actually.

A lot of people work log hard hours every day making it difficult to get any of the limited supply. As evidenced by this thread and others like it I am one of the many, not the few. It was actually you who started us down this track by chiding me with how you "work for what you want" - implying that others (me) don't.

My original posts in this thread questioned whether the deletion of ammo from their online inventory could be an indication of a change in what they carry in the store and whether it made business sense to restrict the information about their stock. I did add the OPINION that I felt it favored the flippers, and even went so far as to say I WAS NOT talking about folks buying for their own use.

Unless you are a flipper I can't see why you got offended and felt the need to turn it onto a urinating contest. Bless your heart...

 

[BlueOvalBandit]

22LR still exists? I don't believe you guys.

The only thing I've found lately is unicorn poop in my front yard.

I just quit going to Walmart altogether. I can't even get bulk 12g multipurpose loads so I don't have to crank out so many on a single stage MEC for a monthly club shoot.

Not worth the hassle of fighting some rude, inconsiderate, subhuman over a box of ammo. Sad part is these guys are 1-2 decades older than me and look ready to shank me if I get "their" box of ammo. I'll reload and shoot my centerfires in the meantime.

I'm on the freeway at 5am... If I'm not I'm late for an 8am start. Not that I'd sit around Walmart at 7am anyway if I could. I've got better things to do with my day.

 

[mopar92]

My local walmarts now set it out at random times. The hoarders and gypsy resellers are very upset. Which is a good thing

 

[brucev]

The day before Thanksgiving I found a single gunshop that had .22 LR ammo. It was CCI Mini-mags in 100 rd. zip-lock bags at $12/100. I passed. The store owner later asked me what I was looking for and I told him .22 LR ammo that was not carrying a scalper price. He got a 500 rd. box of CCI standard velocity out of the back and sold it to me for $29 plus tax. That was the first .22 LR ammo I'd seen in a store for at least 6 months. Before that I found some Fed. Auto-Match in a Walmart. They kindly sold me three boxes which I stretched as long as possible. I have not seen any .22 LR ammo since Thanksgiving.

If by staggered stocking Walmart scalpers and opportunists can be wrong footed... Good. It is a 76 mile round trip to the closest gun shop. Let them have the same fun of driving around and finding nothing. Let some people who simply want .22 LR ammo to shoot and to share w/ their family have at least a chance to find the ammo on the shelf.

If there are those on this board and elsewhere who are not having problems finding ammo, fine. More power to you. But, do not pretend that just because you are able to find and buy ammo that that means everyone else is somehow incompetent or lazy or whatever.

 

[passport]

22lr ammo

Bulk ammo is still being made but there is more profit in smaller packages.Demand for 22 rounds is up plus Walmart doesn't receive many boxes in shipments at a time so employees have first crack at them and who knows what Walmart is going to do.

 

[epj]

I managed to buy 3 333 packs at my local Wally World about 3 weeks ago. That left one on the shelf. The clerk told me the resellers had already been there, but were not buying as much. Some days they didn't even come in. Cost with tax was a bit under five cents per round.

 

[blujax01]

Our little-bitty gun store currently has in stock 11,eleven, ELEVEN different brands/types of 22LR ammunition.

Get out of Walmart. There's a whole wonderful, big world out there waiting for you to explore.

 

[Rustyt1953]

You all are fortunate. All the Wal-Mart's in my county"Hamilton" will not carry guns nor ammo. I have to drive to Butler county. Plenty 9x19 and 380, but almost never any 22lr. Oh well, if I can't shoot my 10/22, I can use it for putt-putt!

 

[Arik]

You all are fortunate. All the Wal-Mart's in my county"Hamilton" will not carry guns nor ammo. I have to drive to Butler county. Plenty 9x19 and 380, but almost never any 22lr. Oh well, if I can't shoot my 10/22, I can use it for putt-putt!

Same in my area. Walmart doesn't sell firearms or ammo

 

[Buford57]

My son is a Manager at my local WalMart. They receive a shipment of Fed 550 bricks almost weekly. They put them out at 8:00 AM and they are gone by 8:15.

My philosophy is that anything "heard from others" is never true.

Does that include your son and other "others" with first hand knowledge or only what other others say others told them?

 

[ladyT]

I can't answer your question. FWIW I haven't seen a box of 22 ammo for sale in a store for over a year.

Then you better find your way out here to El Paso Texas. Lots of 22lr in 50 count boxes at the local Academy. There were about 7 cases out this morning.

 

[blujax01]

Attention WalMart Shoppers

If you cannot find 22LR locally, the following thread is invaluable to you. All you need is a credit card, an address, and a computer. You don't even have to put on your sweatpants.
http://smith-wessonforum.com/smith-wesson-m-p-15-22/292430-official-stock-22lr-ammo-thread.html

 

[J. R. WEEMS]

I can't answer your question. FWIW I haven't seen a box of 22 ammo for sale in a store for over a year.

Not that I need it, but nothing around here anytime I go by.