Forgotten in this mess, Walmart stopped carrying most calibers

[bigwheelzip]

I don't do Business with Gun Hater company's including the 90% Made in China Walmart /K mart.

Must be a different store where you live. It's the closest store to my home so I shop there all the time, and will NEVER buy made in China products.
Picked up a few things there yesterday, including a set of their store brand "Made in USA" baking sheets and Winchester 7.62 ammo.

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[BB57]

I have always been astonished at the number of people who rave about Walmart as a source of ammo. That has not been my experience. I live in ammo-friendly Texas, and there are three Walmart supercenters within easy driving distance of my house. Even in the "good old days" when ammo was plentiful and cheap, none of them ever had a decent selection. Their shelves were always bare of any popular calibers. The only ammo I can ever remember buying there was a single box (all they had) of Remington .380 acp., for the low, low price of $20, only about 20% higher than I could find it elsewhere. I only bought it because I could. Even if they'd had some ammo I wanted, there was rarely anyone around to open the locked display cases. Maybe where the rest of you guys live, Walmart is a primo source for ammo. Where I live, it is the absolute pits.

I occasionally saw them stock decent amounts of CCI SV .22 LR and Remington and Federal 9mm 115 gr FMJ. Their CCI SV prices were usually good, but not the best I’ve seen. Their 9mm ball ammo prices were also quite good at $8-$9 per box. Given that it cost me about $6.00 per box of 50 to handload into once fired brass, I’d often buy their factory ammo to restock on brass.

On rare occasions I’d see something like Federal .357 Magnum 158 gr JSP, which I use as a hunting load in my Model 1892 rifles. Their price on that always beat the competition.

That was however prior to the last couple shortages.

In may shortage, there are always a handful of customers who know when the trucks arrive and when the amm gets stocked who show up bright and early to buy as much as they can. Speaking to the gun counter staff in a few different stores, they all say the same thing. Most of it gets sold to the same handful of customers.

I then see these same customers showing up with a table at local gun shows, selling their mis matched lots of various whatever-Walmart-got-in-stock ammo at a 400-500% markup. Unfortunately people attending the gun show were collectively dumb enough to buy it and thus perpetuate the practice.

I think the lack of those kinds of sleezy scalpers is one reason I didn’t see the same degree of ammo shortage when I was in South Dakota last fall. There isn’t a gun show somewhere close at least once a month. Distances are longer and guns shows are far more infrequent, so there isn’t the same easy way to turn ammo, over as there is here in eastern NC.

 

[mikerjf]

It’s not too hard to find evidence of the Covid planning pre-2019, but as you say, too political to rassle with here.

 

[BC38]

It’s not too hard to find evidence of the Covid planning pre-2019, but as you say, too political to rassle with here.

Ummm... yeah... OK...

 

[StakeOut]

While Sam Walton and his 3 children political support was center or right leaning the grand kids are on the opposite side and contribute to the causes and people running for office with similar leanings.
The Walton family is still the largest shareholder in Walmart and as board members they set policy.

 

[BC38]

While Sam Walton and his 3 children political support was center or right leaning the grand kids are on the opposite side and contribute to the causes and people running for office with similar leanings.
The Walton family is still the largest shareholder in Walmart and as board members they set policy.

Tough times create strong men,
strong men create easy times.
Easy times create weak men,
weak men create tough times.

 

[BB57]

Tough times create strong men,
strong men create easy times.
Easy times create weak men,
weak men create tough times.

The quote “tough times create strong men, strong men create easy times” from G. Michael Hopf’s 2016 novel “Those Who Remain” is similar in meaning to a quote by Saudi Politician Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani:

“My grandfather rode a camel. My father drove a car. I fly in jet planes. My son will drive a car. My grandson will ride a camel.”
- attributed in the Stanford Journal of International Law vol. 22 1986.

 

[Paul in Nevada]

Well believe it or not, something called ESG Investing governs every aspect of the corporate world these days.