Fire75
Member
So my local had the federal 325 pk for $14.27 not long ago. Today it was $18.97!!!! That seems like a huge price increase in a short time.
Walmart prices shooting up?
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J. R. WEEMS
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Doesn't matter around here. A bit of rifle ammo and a few shotgun shells is all they have. I check once in awhile when ever I go by.
ArchAngelCD
Moderator, SWCA Member, Absent Comrade
I'm not sure where you have been over the past 8 months or so but this has been going on since Christmas 2012. In reality I have not seen any 22LR ammo in my area for months.
MichiganScott
Member
Wal-Mart has kept their prices the same since last December instead of raising them to reflect the prices every other ammunition seller in the country was charging. They could have greatly increased their profit margin by increasing prices for the product they sold during the time of massive shortages in this country, but they did not.
Now you begrudge them for what seems to be a totally reasonable price increase inline with standard business practices. They have been more than fair. If you don't like their business practices, shop elsewhere.
Now you begrudge them for what seems to be a totally reasonable price increase inline with standard business practices. They have been more than fair. If you don't like their business practices, shop elsewhere.
perfectcircle1
Member
Wow. He was just stating there was an increase and you got all defensive. Easy bigboy
private pile
Member
Heck! I'd buy the .22lr at that price. My wally world had ZERO stock of the .22 this am. I did find some .17hmr Winchester. There were six boxes of 50. I got two. Its the first WM ammo I have purchased since last Oct/Nov.
De ja vu all over again
http://smith-wessonforum.com/ammo/325436-federal-auto-match.html
http://smith-wessonforum.com/ammo/325436-federal-auto-match.html
I hit Walmart in the afternoon last Wednesday and got the one brick of 550 Remingtons that they had for $22. That was the first time I had seen any 22s in WM in quite a while. I've been buying the 40rd boxes at Academy for $1.97 (limit 1) so it is beginning to get back out there.
I noticed the jump in Federal Auto Match 22's from Walmart about a month ago. I think the increase might be traced back to Federal and not Walmart, though I could be mistaken. At about 6 cents per round I can live with it.
ma deuce
Member
Price doesn't much matter when the shelves are stripped almost all the time. I've stopped bothering with Wally-World. Store employees hold back a lot of the ammo for themselves and their friends, the rest is snatched up by the same dozen guys who come every morning at 7:00 to grab what's put out in the case, then list it on the internet. I buy from Cabela's and Palmetto State and save myself the aggravation.
Smitty357
Member
$18.97 and ur complaining.
There are idiots around here paying $50+ for bricks. And the funny thing is they can drive to wal-mart at any time and buy it for under $20.
There are idiots around here paying $50+ for bricks. And the funny thing is they can drive to wal-mart at any time and buy it for under $20.
I don't ever think prices will ever return to pre election prices in the future and right now it's very difficult to find any ammo and especially 22LR. I paid $24 a 325 pack a few months ago and I was just happy to get it and I got 3.
I have seen the federal 325 packs at Walmart several times since they went from 14.00 to almost 19.00.
Friday night I went to buy .45 that showed up and there was 6 boxes of it setting on the counter.
They set on the shelves and dont sell near as fast as they did at 14.00.
At .06 a round they are still cheaper then most anything available.
Friday night I went to buy .45 that showed up and there was 6 boxes of it setting on the counter.
They set on the shelves and dont sell near as fast as they did at 14.00.
At .06 a round they are still cheaper then most anything available.
What a lot of the people waiting for the "good ol days" to return fail to realize is that manufacturing prices for the materials used in ammo have went through the roof the last few years.
Lead, copper and brass = $$$$$$
Everything federal went up.
9mm .40 .45 .223 and 22lr.
Shotgun shells even had a price increase.
