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chuck j wrote:

VMI77 wrote:

PBR wrote:

Oldgringo wrote:
I rather think it's employee chicanery rather than distributor favoritism......

this is true -- just so happen at walmart last night and noticed 5 federal boxes (325 rd boxes) hidden behind other ammo so finally got someone over in the department and to my surprise they dont sell ammo from 10pm to 7am -- it happened to be 11:30pm and i asked them whom they were hiding the ammo for, he just laughed and said what do you mean? -- i said well only managers and department manager for sporting goods has keys and with the ammo being hide behind other ammo it had to be done by one of them -- he just said i dont know what your talking about but be here at 7am and it will still be here cause thats when we will sell it -- so just happened to be up at 6 this morning and went there walked over to the ammo counter box and behold no more boxes in there and its 6:30 am -- so i asked them where they went and how come they were sold, they all acted surprised and as i was leaving i seen the same support manager i talked too at 11:30 and told him i knew you were lying and holding the ammo for someone cause its all gone and its 6:30 am so no ammo should of been sold but it has magically disappeared

I happened upon some 22 a while back in a local Walmart and heard one of the employees on his phone calling family to come get it. Since Academy consistently has 22 in stock and Walmart virtually never does, it's rather obvious Walmart employees are allowed to get away with dispensing ammo to friends and relatives before any finds its way into the hands of the general public. That being the case, I highly doubt whether these employees are applying the same 3 box limit to themselves that they apply to the public on the rare occasions friends and family haven't cleaned out new stock. I used to buy a lot of ammo at Walmart but I don't even bother looking there any more unless I happen to be in the store for some other reason.

I don't worry about complaining about these situations , it's always been that way . I just look else where .

PBR wrote:

Oldgringo wrote:
I rather think it's employee chicanery rather than distributor favoritism......

this is true -- just so happen at walmart last night and noticed 5 federal boxes (325 rd boxes) hidden behind other ammo so finally got someone over in the department and to my surprise they dont sell ammo from 10pm to 7am -- it happened to be 11:30pm and i asked them whom they were hiding the ammo for, he just laughed and said what do you mean? -- i said well only managers and department manager for sporting goods has keys and with the ammo being hide behind other ammo it had to be done by one of them -- he just said i dont know what your talking about but be here at 7am and it will still be here cause thats when we will sell it -- so just happened to be up at 6 this morning and went there walked over to the ammo counter box and behold no more boxes in there and its 6:30 am -- so i asked them where they went and how come they were sold, they all acted surprised and as i was leaving i seen the same support manager i talked too at 11:30 and told him i knew you were lying and holding the ammo for someone cause its all gone and its 6:30 am so no ammo should of been sold but it has magically disappeared

Oldgringo wrote:Very interesting!

It seems the WalMart in Jacksonville never had any .22LR for $15-20/brick while the local hardware had that same ammo for $75-100/brick. How did that happen?

JRG wrote:I was able to score three bricks of 555 22LR Winchester HP copper plated bullets just today. I was in the Nogales, AZ Walmart shopping with the wife and just happened by the ammo display. It seemed that the employees had just unboxed today's shipment. I was shocked to see about 10 bricks of Winchester and another 6 or so bricks of 325 round Federal on the shelves. It has been a long, long, long time since I have seen such. The older employee asked me how many I wanted, I started to say I'll take it all, but instead said I'd take three Winchester boxes. They were $27.88 each. The Federal was $18.97 each.

So, it was a very successful trip. The wife got what she wanted and I got something I thought I'd never see again.

Joe