Had a conversation with a “senior” employee at a retailer yesterday. I was inquiring about reloading supplies. He went into a long discussion on availability and told me “when we get anything, a couple of their young employees hit their phones and their friends show up and buy out everything within 30 minutes”. Ammo and reloading supplies. Competition is fierce.
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You are up against more than resellers for ammo
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And this is not capitalism.
I hold all of these people in great distain.
And I give 2 craps about what anyone else thinks of me.
Walmart employees had this going big time in the last crisis. Ammo never made it too the floor for sale.
This is all to common.
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Could be thought of as theft in some ways. They are stealing the retailers ability to bring in customers that will likely buy other products so they can privately profit.
That is not a stretch from the old Teamster deal, if an employee took an unauthorized break or lunch, it was called stealing time from the employer.
Absolutely. Walmart employees were “allowed” to buy 3 boxes of ammo per day. I know that at the local WM that some would buy their 3 and stash the rest of the .22s and buy all of them over a few days and resell them. That was during the 2013 shortage.
Loganwildman
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The way to stop it would be for the manager to lock up the shipment and handle putting it on the shelf.
Managers may even allow this as a perk to keep employees...
walmart is a non-factor this time...
I don't even think about the word capitalism, since USA became a BANANA REPUBLIC.......
there is no end in sight.
the "choke point" this time is the "cheapest component" of ALL ammo......the 1.5 cent per round component, and the power to gobble them up directly from the manufacturers, who claim they are swaped with ammo orders from ALL the NEW HUNTERS.....what a joke on us.
BMWRich
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This is common practice here in my area at the LGS’s.
Last spring when the government shut everything down and the panic buying started,
one local employee at Big R/Stock n Field in HomerGlen IL told me to my face, that he was “reselling” in the company’s parking lot for a profit.
Very hard to “police/stop” this practice.
Like anything else in life.....the most guilty one’s are the one’s with the key’s to the cookie jar.
Last spring when the government shut everything down and the panic buying started,
one local employee at Big R/Stock n Field in HomerGlen IL told me to my face, that he was “reselling” in the company’s parking lot for a profit.
Very hard to “police/stop” this practice.
Like anything else in life.....the most guilty one’s are the one’s with the key’s to the cookie jar.
Twangbanger
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I definitely get the anger at the employees who were poaching stock.
But they were only keeping it from the ones sitting in their trucks in the parking lot, waiting for the store to open.
If there's one thing a Flipper hates...it's someone who plays the game at a more advanced level than them.
But they were only keeping it from the ones sitting in their trucks in the parking lot, waiting for the store to open.
If there's one thing a Flipper hates...it's someone who plays the game at a more advanced level than them.
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That would be damn near impossible. Last time I would shop on the overnight shift and they would know that if there was any ammunition it would be in a single box, maybe more than one single box, randomly placed on any of several pallets. Now that they went to truncated hours in the name of COVID I can't stand there for a couple hours watching them break down pallets full of boxes hoping to hit pay dirt, its already locked down by morning.
sheepdog697
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It’s not ideal, guess it’s a job perk....
The stores dont really give a flying fornication who buys it, as long as somebody does.
So long as the product they bring in leaves at a profit, they dont care.
So long as the product they bring in leaves at a profit, they dont care.
BMWRich
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Sorry mate.... but I have to politely disagree...
I have yet, to find an establishment that is currently selling ammo (if they have any),...
that has not *posted* a particular amount a customer and or “member” may purchase.
One would think a business feels “who cares who’s buying, all that matters is the sale”.
But that’s not true, otherwise a *posted* limit wouldn’t exist by the seller.
I’ve even come across businesses who limit ammo sales to only those who purchase new firearms, use the ammo “presently” at their location/range, or are a member of that store/establishment.
Loganwildman
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I have yet to see a dept manager overloaded at the box stores lol. You are probably right, although some stores are putting limits in place to "ensure" more people can get a box.
Loganwildman
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I understand that, but EVERY shipment has a packing slip so they can confirm they got what the company said they got.
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That doesn't change the fact that the packing slip doesn't tell anything but which truck it's on. This ships from the distribution center on Wal-Mart's own trucks so it can be more opaque than a direct shipment. By contrast when I deliver product, you can take the paperwork and immediately place your hand on the corresponding product.
