Posted on 08/01/2013 5:52:48 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Can anyone provide a synopsis for those of us behind firewalls at work......
Watching Walmartians? Yes we are.
Seven AM sign at this particular location were taken down. Workers got tired of a 7 AM crowd. Filmer tricked the worker into revealing he sends out texts to a list of people (through a couple of buddies) for $2 that describes latest shipments received (via what this worker has heard).
Filmer bribes employee with $10 per each emailed notification. Some discussion of such. Filmer walks out claiming Secret Walmart Information.
I have a lot to say about his post, but won’t do it in this reply.
Ditto. I still cannot understand why .22LR is completely unavailable. Makes no sense. Yes, I understand the horders, but it would seem they could make plenty of .22.
I see ammo is slowly coming back, but I won’t pay the crazy prices their asking. I can wait it out.
Thanks.
Thanks!!!
I watched this and can certainly say this is not the experience I’ve had at three Walmarts.
Earlier in the year WM was going through a learning phase about 9mm and 22LR and 22WMR ammo. These are the top desired calibers in most WMs (at least here in Georgia).
They restricted 9mm, 22LR and 22WMR sales to one box per customer, have always had (and to this day) signs posted that say sales start at 7AM. Whether there are gun store employees or not, I can prove, but I’ve been there at 7 AM plenty of times and most all of the prospective buyers are individuals not associated with a gun store (from discussions). It’s kinda hard to resell when you only get one box per customer.
I will say this. There was a time about 5 months ago, I saw one WM employee ask another one to pull out some of the 525 rd 22LR from under the counter and sell him three boxes. The manager was raked over the coals by customers for this and that’s when he started making employees stand in line just like customers AND subjected to the one box limit.
Today, the WM near me still has the signs, the limits, and bring out the ammo at 7AM.
Well, I guess there is more profit for ammo manufacturers on higher calibers.
I suspect you are one of those customers who wants to avoid online purchases, but note that 22LR can be purchased all over the web for down to 10 cents a round.
I can....I sit here in my basement alternating between shooting 22LRs in my S&W 617 10 shot stainless 6” BBL revolver at a steel trap and perusing FR.
My favorite round for this is the Aguila Super Colibri 22 LR with no power...primer and bullet only in a 22 case. Quiet as hell but won’t cycle a semi, and not recommended for a rifle.
BTW, the most rare ammo in my neck of the woods is 22WMR followed by hyper velocity 22LRs in quantity.
Well for .22LR that’s true, I don’t buy online. But all other calibers I get almost exclusively online. Seems silly to me to pay heft shipping charges for .22 when heretofore you could get .22 cheaply locally. Other calibers I get inquanity online and with shipping it’s still a bit less than local.
Very hard to find Aguila or Stingers.
It was mentioned on FR (last week I think). SOmeone did the math, and came up with a really simple answer. .22lr capacity in the US has been reportedly 4.1 billion rounds/year. Divide 4.1 billion by 550 rounds (no, not all .22lr is in the 550 round value packs, but it helps simplify the math). 4,100,000,000 / 550 = 7,454,545. Divide that by 365 days in a year = 20,423 bricks/day. Divide that by fifty states = 408 bricks a day per state. I know about 10 people personally who are on the lookout for any .22lr at a reasonable price and will buy if they come across it locally. On line prices are still too high, but many of the local retailers are still holding the prices closer to normal. So, if I'm only one guy in a state with 2 million people in it, and a significant portion of those 2 million people are shooters and actively seeking out .22lr, selling 408 bricks a day per state, isn't so out of the ordinary given the current situation.
Recently I've seen pistol ammo that hasn't been around much at my WalMart coming back on the shelves and sitting there for a day or two. .45 ACP, .40 S&W (one box), .44 Mag, .25 auto, .380 auto and .38 special were all on the shelves yesterday when I was there at 5:00 PM. By 8:00 PM, the one box of .40 S&W was gone, but several boxes of the other calibers was still there. The day before, there were about 10-15 boxes of the .40 and I bought 2. One for me and one for a buddy who had me keeping an eye out for it. With tax, it was $39 for a box of 100 count of new Winchester .40 S&W 165 grain. That's cheaper than the cheapest re-loads I can find on line right now.
The profit margins on .22 ammo is probably lower than on center-fire ammo, so production resources switch to the latter.
Last box of 500 rds of the Super Colibri was from Midway USa for something $32.57 - about three weeks ago.
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