I'm not sure what kind of knowledge the guy had but I'm going to have to call shenanigans. A family member used to work in the sporting goods section at the Avon Walmart. I told him to let me know the next time they were going to increase prices so that I could come in and clean them out before the prices were raised. He said that they had no idea when prices were going to change or what they were going to change to. Someone at corporate just pushes a button (ok maybe slightly more involved, but you get the idea) and the prices are changed without warning. He said sometimes he didn't know the prices had changed until he was ringing up items and noticed it. They don't want the employees knowing when the prices are going to change so that they don't clear them out at the lower price.
Maybe I'll just go out and buy ammo anyway.
OK. The nice older guy at the walmart just told me that a 40% price hike in comming sometime this month. So I bought 500rds of blazer 9mm. (96$) And plan to buy more b4 the hike. Get it while its cheap!
iwas just in wal-mart wed.(NORTHREN IN)the guy working sporting goods said the price will probably be going down the next few months.guess we will have to sit back and watch
He said sometimes he didn't know the prices had changed until he was ringing up items and noticed it.
Forgive if this has been answered before. Do Wal-mart employees get their discount on ammo also? If so they get good deals and more power to them! Wish I did!
+1 Thats why you must check the prices at walmart and then what they ring up everywhere.
I was in walmart back just before one of the big jumps. I picked up 2 boxes of the remington 100 rd hollowpoints for what was 28 bucks at the time. I thought it looked low, but prices had just started jumping and I hadn't bought in a couple months. Rang up 34.96. I had them correct the error and bought the last 4 boxes they had at the marked price. They bitched a little, but they are required to honor their posted prices. I think those boxes are at 39 right now IIRC.
The way I see it is this... We all actually need to decrease our spending on ammo. Instead of snatching it up because of a upcoming price increase just lay low and quit buying. This is the only thing that will have a positive impact on the cost of ammo. As long as were feeding the sharks the more they will keep coming back and raising the costs.