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Posted on 01/01/2006 1:16:56 PM PST by BenLurkin
Technical toys such as computers and DVD players have gotten so cheap in recent years that I suspect it's tough for Walmart to come up with eye-opening prices on these items. Besides, Walmart's innovations have been copied by it's competitors so anything they do is usually matched fairly closely.
I agree that it will be a growing trend.
It helps avoid the rush, the selection is better, and many merchants have deals with transport/delivery services for low-to-free shipping. And for many products, there is still no sales tax.
I've ordered from several different companies this past year. The longest delivery time was nearly 3 weeks plus a week to process the order. Ridiculous in today's market. Many computer and other 'on the ball' merchants have their products delivered within 3 to 5 business days.
Same here.
Walmart savings are more than eaten away by the time it takes to get what you need and get out of there.
Of course it is. That's why Wal-Mart favors a national sales tax on all goods sold on the Internet or through catalogs. They want to have the government kill off the competition for them.
We're doomed! ;)
The Post Office surely believes you. Rates and tempers are rising.
Muleteam1
I shop Wal-Mart rarely - first time this year was a week ago - for a DVD I was looking for. It was tidy, nothing like the other Wal-Mart which opened a fews years back and always looked like a tornado went through it. The new store, open only about two months, where I bought the DVD, was dimly lit and virtually empty. No one in the store surprised me since I know Wal-Mart is very popular.
Since I don't usually buy too many items in any one visit to Wal-Mart, I ten to fly through the self-checkout lines which are usually empty. But there's a Walmart right on my daily commute so I don't have to worry about gas costs if I go there, thus I can stop to pick up a single item easily if I choose.
You don't know about Wal-mart.com? Where have you been?
Speaking of crap, I saw the same stuff at Home Depot, Lowes and Target that I saw at Wally world.
I think they're all like that.
I've noticed that Wal-Mart has recently opened some stores in the outer suburbs of Philly where population growth is booming but still overall not very densely packed yet -- so I've seen some stores that weren't too busy at first. I think that they're trying to get ahead of the curve and put roots down early before too many NIMBY's and anti-Wal-Mart types move in.
I just go at 10pm. No lines then. But then, this is Boise and the sidewalks get rolled up at 9.
I shop for high-end quality products, stuff Walmart usually does not carry.
(The doorbuster sale at our Wal-Mart required the police to be called three times, due to intra-line violence amongst the ... "ethnic" shoppers.)
Well there's been a lot of townhouses, condos and single family developments sprouting up near me as well so it stands to reason a Wal-Mart would open. The DVD was a good price but I don't know that I would be going again (unless for a CD or DVD).
DVD prices dropped for non-immediate releases to amazingly low levels this past month. Retailers and Hollywood knows that High Definition DVD's are coming in 2006, so they wanted to clear out the inventories. Plus, since I'm guessing that many consumers don't realized that a new format is coming, everyone's hoping to pull a Lucas and sell two copies of films to consumers (one regular DVD and one high definition DVD).
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