My Walmart Bash

[Robjps]

The 1000 round boxes ARE CALLED winchester M-22. So 3 boxes means 3000 rounds move on 8-)

Pretty sure ive also bought CCI minimags in 1k quantities before also.

 

[hornadylnl]

Walmart doesn't give a flying flip about customer complaints. Even when made directly to corporate.

Do you still continue to shop there?

 

[M67]

3 whopping thousand

What a crime

 

[HeadlessRoland]

Hang him for abiding the laws of capitalism! How dare he not give everyone their fair share or their fair opportunity! Off with his head! Bring me his head on a platter!

 

[ModernGunner]

I've bought many, many 1000 round cartons over the years. Don't know if that's what the Walmart guy bought, but 1000 round 'boxes' certainly aren't out of the ordinary.

I DO agree with an earlier post, if folks would stop buying from the 'gougers & flippers', supply & prices would return to 'normal'. We saw the same thing with firearms not that long ago, and people were 'panic buying' about anything that even LOOKED like an AK / AR at mind-numbing prices.

By the same token, if some guy's gonna offer someone else $.50 / rnd. for .22LR, then whether they keep or sell it is up to them, isn't it?

 

[88GT]

Supply is lower. Demand is higher. Price reflects that. "Gougers" and flippers aren't causing that. They are taking advantage of it.

 

[MikeDVB]

Supply is lower. Demand is higher. Price reflects that. "Gougers" and flippers aren't causing that. They are taking advantage of it.

Capitalism, Supply and Demand, and Opportunism .

 

[Robjps]

Supply is lower. Demand is higher. Price reflects that. "Gougers" and flippers aren't causing that. They are taking advantage of it.

Supply really isn't an issue. There is plenty of 22lr being produced but while people are willing to pay a premium there will be this self induced vacuum as "gougers" and "flippers" will continue to buy it out and resell it. They buy the bulk of what is being produced to be resold. Everyone else frenzies over the scraps.

I see 22lr being resold by middleage housewives who have no interest in shooting and long since killed their husbands will to shoot. Why because they can make a buck, have no job , and are willing to be a wal-mart at 9am.

 

[Dead Duck]

You could always start working there and beat Mark at his own game. Of course you'll have to kick Richards ass because already you know he'll narc you off to the customers. Blabbermouth.




Then you can give INGO the inside scoop on deliveries...

 

[88GT]

Supply really isn't an issue. There is plenty of 22lr being produced but while people are willing to pay a premium there will be this self induced vacuum as "gougers" and "flippers" will continue to buy it out and resell it. They buy the bulk of what is being produced to be resold. Everyone else frenzies over the scraps.

I see 22lr being resold by middleage housewives who have no interest in shooting and long since killed their husbands will to shoot. Why because they can make a buck, have no job , and are willing to be a wal-mart at 9am.

How in the world can you say supply isn't an issue? Do you not see empty shelves? Supply isn't an absolute. It's relative. Until it sits on the shelves without people fighting to get it before the next guy, there's a supply issue.

 

[HeadlessRoland]

How in the world can you say supply isn't an issue? Do you not see empty shelves? Supply isn't an absolute. It's relative. Until it sits on the shelves without people fighting to get it before the next guy, there's a supply issue.

Supply is not the issue. Demand is the issue. Do you even econ, bro? Supply is at least what manufacturers were churning out before the increased demand. Increased demand even slightly boosted the supply. Problem is that even in the face of 24/7 maximum .22LR production, demand is still high. High demand, same supply to supply that demand, higher price.

 

[88GT]

So there isn't enough supply to meet demand. Supply is an issue then. That's what I said. Do you even Econ, bro?

 

[HeadlessRoland]

So there isn't enough supply to meet demand. Supply is an issue then. That's what I said. Do you even Econ, bro?

Supply is not an issue. Supply is at maximum relative to demand. Demand is the issue.

 

[jamil]

God forbid one of the 300-700 people that work at wal-mart buy ammo.

Walmart workers are people too!

I was talking to a guy working at Cabellas one morning after I struck out looking for .22LR. He said employees aren't allowed to buy it. He didn't say whether he wasn't allowed to buy it at all or just during working hours. He said sometimes he sees a shelf full come in and he's just out of luck. I think he also may be short on imagination.

Supply is lower. Demand is higher. Price reflects that. "Gougers" and flippers aren't causing that. They are taking advantage of it.

The prices at Walmart and just about every bigbox retail store that sells it doesn't reflect that. Until they do there won't be .22LR on the shelves.

How in the world can you say supply isn't an issue? Do you not see empty shelves? Supply isn't an absolute. It's relative. Until it sits on the shelves without people fighting to get it before the next guy, there's a supply issue.

Supply isn't the issue. Price is the issue. When demand is high enough that people are willing to pay $75 for brick of the crappiest 22LR, and Walmart has it for 22.99, how could it possibly stay on the shelves for long?

 

[Madjack181]

Had the salesman at Walmart tell me he had a guy that bought his 3 box limit. Tried to buy the limit for his wife but the clerk told him she had to be there and buy it herself. So the guy paid some random woman in the store 20 bucks to buy another three boxes for him. Don't understand the frenzy over .22

 

[Madjack181]

About a month ago I was at the Ole English gun shop north of Dayton and they had a pallet of 500 rd boxes of .22 for $80 a box.

 

[HeadlessRoland]

Double!

 

[HeadlessRoland]

Had the salesman at Walmart tell me he had a guy that bought his 3 box limit. Tried to buy the limit for his wife but the clerk told him she had to be there and buy it herself. So the guy paid some random woman in the store 20 bucks to buy another three boxes for him. Don't understand the frenzy over .22

The price basis of .22LR is similar to that of the most expensive flower in the world: runaway demand.

 

[Robjps]

How in the world can you say supply isn't an issue? Do you not see empty shelves? Supply isn't an absolute. It's relative. Until it sits on the shelves without people fighting to get it before the next guy, there's a supply issue.

Because there is no shortage of 22lr ? Just as much and more is being produced as before newtown with less shooting of the ammo happening.... Soon as you understand that it will make sense.

There is no shortage, idiots have allowed a secondary market to form charging a premium to those stupid enough to allow it. Only 2 things can possibly stop it one of which is unlikely as manufacturers who this isn't hurting would have to increase production to levels it completely overwhelms the resellers. Or people can just not be dumb and quit paying too much, once their is not money to be made it will stop.

As far as on the shelf, its available 24/7 on gunbroker armslist etc... millions of rounds millions. So to repeat there is no supply issue there is plenty to go around. I'd be willing to wager there is actually a surplus.

 

[looney2ns]

Do you still continue to shop there?

No