Is Wal-Mart slowly stopping ammo sales?

[germansheperd]

So a couple days ago I noticed the local Wal-Mart re-did their ammo display.
Notice that not only they cut it down to less than half the size it used to be but there are no more labels/price tags where various calibers would be stocked.
I know, I know there is no conspiracy.

 

[SAFireman]

Probably to help eliminate the vast empty shelves.....looks bad regardless of what was in them before.

 

[stansdds]

Looks a lot like the ammo display at my local Walmart. Mostly empty.

 

[germansheperd]

That ammo shelf used to go way past where they put the box fans lol. Then they used to have that 12ga 3 1/2” dead weight further past that out on a shelf in the open.

 

[Rodan]

Probably just trying to use the space for products they can actually get.

 

[germansheperd]

Which means what another ammo source gone?

 

[jdh]

What do you mean Slowly?

 

[brucev]

In my area WM pulled about all handgun ammo several years ago. Now w/ the current shortage of ammo, WM has no rifle ammo at all. Not much in the way of shotshells. Other than groceries and cat litter, not much reason to go there. JMHO. Sincerely. bruce.

 

[Green Frog]

When I went into my first Wal*Mart it was a discount department store with clothes, household goods, an OK garden shop, a pretty good selection of sporting goods and a so-so grocery department. Now the ones around here have an OK grocery department, a minimal sporting goods department with virtually no guns or ammo, and the rest of the store is full primarily with Chinese trash. It's becoming less worth my while to go there.

 

[Duckfood]

My local Walmart stopped selling firearms a few years ago... About a year after that, Walmart corporate decided to stop selling handgun ammunition and .223/5.56... I had mostly stopped going to Walmart about 10 years ago, but, would still stop in from time to time for range day needs like ammo, targets, staples, etc... Now, like others have said, I have little to no reason to shop there...

 

[sigp220.45]

When Wal Mart decided to stop selling handgun and scary rifle ammo after the El Paso shooting I bought my local one out of nearly everything they had. .25 ACP was five bucks a box, .357 Sig was 10 bucks, and I forget what .45 ACP and .44 Magnum were, but they were cheap enough I bought all they had. I'm still sitting on some of it.

My local WM is hit and miss right now, but they sometimes have .22 LR and shotgun shells.

Say what you want about WM, but even in the prior Chicken Little ammo meltdowns they never jacked the prices. The Mom & Pop stores everyone fawns over are the ones selling 9mm ball for 2 bucks a round.

I love my Wally World. I've been taking my rig there for oil changes for the last five years and the same guy has been doing it, for 20 bucks. While I wait I do some shopping and occasionally buy some ammo.

My Wal Mart is nice and clean and the employees are helpful. I've been in crappy Wal Marts, but they were in crappy areas.

Since WM doesn't sell handgun or .223 ammo they don't seem to get the scalper pressure that other places do.

 

[luvsmiths]

Our Wal mart consolidated down to this size a year ago or more, and our Store Manager said it was in the works from Corporate for some time.

 

[ldausmc1369]

Old farts are there every morning to buy whatever comes in, takes it down the street to the gun store, collects their vig, and gun shop marks it up 100%. Irony is idiots buy it!

 

[biku324]

If I was a major department store chain shareholder, I'd want out of any sales that added tidbits to my bottom line but could embroil the chain in endless litigation. Alcohol not so much, because they make craploads of cash on regionally-priced booze.

 

[Greyman50]

Sam Walton is rolling in his grave. WW were once a down home store, remember going in an early one in Ga. in late 70’s. One of Sams sons was SF, SOG in Vietnam, sadly he is gone. The current BOD is typical of todays younger folks, go figure. Talked to a manager I knew about the firearms situation. Corp. decision, no more handgun sales, no more handgun or AR/Ak ammo sales. My son used to work for Sams club setting up stores, the stories he has!!!

 

[Boudiepitbull]

About the only thing I can only find at Walmart and no where else is cases of unbroken clay pigeons.

 

[kraynky]

My local Wal Mart has always had the very worst SPORTING GOODS DEPARTMENT on the planet. I stopped going in there when 22 WMR was getting scarce, and they had nothing but a few boxes of shotgun shells. (overpriced) They have about a half aisle of fishing items, half aisle of camo, another 1/2 aisle of scopes & pocket knives amd some items for boaters.

Not even going to ever go to that department if I run out! (not likely to happen) They stopped inviting ammo buyers years ago. They can shove it all up their keisters! If they want to show that they don't want our business, then I take the hint, and don't buy anything. (unless the wifeypoo has to have something........I avoid the place.

 

[bruce5781]

My Walmart hasn't stocked anything other than 12 & 20 gauge birdshot in over a year.

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[Truckman]

The only reason I go to Walmart is for the generic prescription drugs and the cheap insulin for my diabetes......Ben

 

[germansheperd]

Old farts are there every morning to buy whatever comes in, takes it down the street to the gun store, collects their vig, and gun shop marks it up 100%. Irony is idiots buy it!

It’s fantastic that a single box of ammo can help so many people