My God I'd rather be horse whipped than to go to Wal Mart for a 10% success rate. I can't stand going in there (here, not all are the same) when they DO HAVE what I'm looking for.
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Walmart ammo availability thread - Post what you see available & where!
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I believe the Wal-Marts in-and-around Metro areas are caving to liberal pressures to stop supplying arms to citizens that wish to exercise their rights. Out-laying stores need to keep the locals happy, and can afford to stock arms and ammo, maybe those stores would be the best bet for ammo.
Never have what I'm looking for. Maybe something kinda like it in a crappy way, but never it.
And you have one of the "nicer" ones in your town! Dang.
That reasoning is sound, but unforunatly in my case not true. I drive past the one in Lafayette (pretty freaking rural) everyday on my way to work. They never seem to have a good selection of ammo. Usually just a slim selection of pistol ammo, with a few rifle rounds, and I can't remember seeing any .22lr in the past 2 years.
I'll take a look again soon but the walmart in dunwoody (north side of ATL) usually has most of the hunting rifle calibers in stock, a decent amount of pistol ammo (380, 9mm, 45, etc) and always lots of shotgun ammo.
the only thing I really look for if I'm in there is 22lr which they rarely have, but I'll take a look in the next day or two and see what they have and post back here.
the only thing I really look for if I'm in there is 22lr which they rarely have, but I'll take a look in the next day or two and see what they have and post back here.
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Awesome. Which Walmart was this at?
Of course the flip side would be that the more rural stores have a lot more customers looking for ammo, so when a shortage hits they get hit harder and have lower inventories.
That being said, Wal Mart's don't all stock exactly the same product mixes. Generally they start with a 'default' product mix for the area they are opening a new store in, then continuously adjust inventory based on demand.
Stores that are in-town may carry more bikes and skateboards and fewer guns and fishing reels. Not so much a conspiracy as market adjustments.
The best bet to change the mix is to always ask for something if you don't see it. In fact email or write corporate to say you went by a store to purchase something and they didn't stock it. Works for Publix and works for WalMart (if enough people feel the same way).
