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AJSully421 wrote:Complain to a manager. Better yet, email corporate with the stores mentioned. Might do the trick.

I thought about that., but I believe its part of a corporate plan and is intentional. Guns started disappearing from the stores, and now this. The long unproductive waits seem to be wide spread and doesn't seem to be store specific. I think they are intentionally making it difficult to buy ammo so that the sales will drop,a and they can justify dropping the product. I can't believe they can't see whats going on. Surely while ammo sales are sky rocketing across the rest of the country They can't be selling as much ammo any more.

I have lost the only reason I ever had for going to Walmart.

I usually go to the auto/tire department and ask them to call someone from sporting goods to unlock ammo. Someone usually shows up within 10 minutes.

Mick22 wrote:I usually go to the auto/tire department and ask them to call someone from sporting goods to unlock ammo. Someone usually shows up within 10 minutes.

Around here someone in the auto/tire dept has a key. Sometimes you have to wait for them to finish with a customer before they can go help you.

This has not been a problem here in Greenville also other than 22rf the stock has improved

The one time I went to Wally World to buy ammo, I was told the person with the key was at lunch.

Adding staff to cover every department would cut into profits. The employees at Walmart are solely there to stock and face product. The cashiers are being replaced by self-checkout. That's it. Take your money to a business that operates on customer service, not a feed mill for your dollars.

"You come in, you pick out what you want, you bring it up, you ring it up, you pay me, you put it in a bag, and then you get the **** out of my store. Step it up people, I'm trying to run a business here!" - Bill Burr

warnmar10 wrote:

Mick22 wrote:I usually go to the auto/tire department and ask them to call someone from sporting goods to unlock ammo. Someone usually shows up within 10 minutes.

Around here someone in the auto/tire dept has a key. Sometimes you have to wait for them to finish with a customer before they can go help you.

There were a few instances where automotive had the key.

carlson1 wrote:The Academy in North Richland Hills does not have their handgun ammo behind the counter or not at least the ammo I have bought. They even have specials and they will fill the end caps with handgun ammo.

I go to the same Academy and they do have some ammo behind the counter but I never look to see what kind. Handgun ammo is accessible and usually have specials going on as Carlson has stated.

Since I moved to the HEB area, I have never seen anyone around the ammo section of the WalMart we frequent.

We have a Wal-Mart south of Katy that had an incredibly helpful sporting goods associate. I stopped going there because the stories of how he held the high school long distance championship and the stories of the number of Barretts he owned eventually began to wear on me. Then Sandy Hook and there was no reason to even bother. But, the waiting at the locked case and/or the long stories have kept me from going back even after the shelves have filled back up.

GlockBrandGlock wrote:Adding staff to cover every department would cut into profits. The employees at Walmart are solely there to stock and face product. The cashiers are being replaced by self-checkout. That's it. Take your money to a business that operates on customer service, not a feed mill for your dollars.

"You come in, you pick out what you want, you bring it up, you ring it up, you pay me, you put it in a bag, and then you get the **** out of my store. Step it up people, I'm trying to run a business here!" - Bill Burr

- usually have to hunt/wait for ammo keyholder at Walmart
- Academys around here have most of the ammo out on regular shelves. Sometimes have high demand stuff they have a quantity limit on behind the gun counter.

I usually get my ammo online or at Academy. But since Target went full mentally challenged with some of their policies, I'll be shopping at "the Wal-Mart" more often now, which in turn will lead to me buying more ammo there, simply because they sell it. My WM alway had an unmanned sporting good area and I always have to go through the routine of finding the right person with a key for ammo but they always have been helpful and seem to make the honest efforts to get me what I need.

I always walk over to the automotive section and ask for them to page someone in sporting goods. When I figure out how to use the phones I page them myself.

Try this next time you are at Wal-Mart. May or may not still work, or work at all stores.

Dial the extension #96 and listen to your voice echo throughout the store.

#980* picks up lines, * being the line number.

vjallen75 wrote:

carlson1 wrote:The Academy in North Richland Hills does not have their handgun ammo behind the counter or not at least the ammo I have bought. They even have specials and they will fill the end caps with handgun ammo.

I go to the same Academy and they do have some ammo behind the counter but I never look to see what kind. Handgun ammo is accessible and usually have specials going on as Carlson has stated.

Since I moved to the HEB area, I have never seen anyone around the ammo section of the WalMart we frequent.

Which is why they don't have someone standing there waiting for someone to show up needing a key.

Why require a key at all? My first thought was because they have self checkout and a 10 year old could self checkout ammo. But beer isn't behind lock and key and they figured that out. To prevent shoplifting? Razors are behind the glass and stuff in the electronics aisles too. I'm guessing Walmart knows their customers and configure their security accordingly.

GlockBrandGlock wrote:Adding staff to cover every department would cut into profits. The employees at Walmart are solely there to stock and face product. The cashiers are being replaced by self-checkout. That's it. Take your money to a business that operates on customer service, not a feed mill for your dollars.

"You come in, you pick out what you want, you bring it up, you ring it up, you pay me, you put it in a bag, and then you get the **** out of my store. Step it up people, I'm trying to run a business here!" - Bill Burr

I agree with your observations about Wal- Mart, but do not necessarily agree with your advice to others. Wal Mart competes on price, not service. They configure their distribution channels and everything else with the sole goal of lowering their costs and then try to undercut prices of competitors. Their approach is not an inherently good or bad thing, and is not targeted at every single customer.

If someone wants a higher degree of customer service, and is willing to pay slightly higher prices for most things then they are better off shopping elsewhere. But for some people, the lower prices are worth the trade off in poor customer service. I could just as easily tell you to buy all your clothes at Neiman Marcus, but that advice would be bad for a huge segment of the population.

You see the same thing in the airline industry. Spirit may have the lowest fare, but you'll probably have a more pleasant experience on American, United, or Delta, and for most people it is worth it to pay a little more.

Why would anyone waste their time going to Walmart or any other brick and mortar store for that matter? The easiest and cheapest way to buy ammo, especially in bulk, is on-line and delivered right to your front door!

Bitter Clinger wrote:Why would anyone waste their time going to Walmart or any other brick and mortar store for that matter? The easiest and cheapest way to buy ammo, especially in bulk, is on-line and delivered right to your front door!

Walmart has 9mm at $10 a box and .45 (Alum) at $15 a box.

Now, I will purchase self-defense ammo online.