New Dedicated Apple Product Displays Showing Up at Walmart

[dontwalkhand]

I completely agree with those of you who said that these displays will get trashed within a month or two. Demo units will have cables that will look as if they've gone to hell and back, possible missing keys and perhaps cracked screens. There will also be all sorts of scratches and nicks on the counter. I'm not saying this just to be an ##$!@ (well maybe a little), but I speak from experience having seen the videogame and computer sections of my local WM stores in pretty bad repair. They would be far better off if they kept everything within a glass display like Target does.

The Sam's Club here which sells iPads have had everything you said listed there (a subsidiary of Wal-mart), except for the cracked screens.

The iPads themselves still worked fine however, despite the abuse, but the charging cord was so screwed up that nobody could really play with them anymore, and they have to replace the cords every week.

 

[powaking]

Thought that kid looked familiar. Same store, different angle.

http://xsellize.com/topic/188035-apple-store-within-a-store-has-expanded-to-walmarts/

 

[Robertus]

Apple's store-in-store concept within Walmart may appeal to people who live in areas where there is no Apple Store within several miles.

However, Walmart is the worst place to shop there because employees there do not place emphasis on product displaying values and customer servicing. My local Walmart in Columbus, Ohio is the pits. When I shop there, product displaying and placement are very poor in appearance, and if you're looking for some answers about a particular product, like a digital camera or a TV, Walmart employees aren't doing much to help you, even you asked nicely. You wait quite awhile for a Walmart employee to come to you, taking his/her time just to arrive and service you. Forget those Walmart TV ads where smiling customer service employees are readily available to service you at almost every aisle, none of the real life Walmart employees are like that.

I wonder if Steve Jobs ever visit a Walmart store in the past? If he visits my local Walmart, he would probably give the Walmart CEO a screaming, tongue-lashing fit right away, saying "it's sh**!".

 

[Macman45]

The display cabinets and stock are identical to what Apple are doing in sections of the PC World (Now rebranded as Curry's) in the UK....Strange thing is we also have a full Apple store within 10 mins. walk. More exposure I guess.

 

[AppleScruff1]

Result: a much wider chunk of the consumer market is empowered in a way they weren't before.

Just like what Windows has done, only on a smaller scale.

 

[*LTD*]

Just like what Windows has done, only on a smaller scale.

Windows?

LOL.

There's a reason Apple does so well in the market. Part of it's driven by the absolutely lousy products foisted on consumers by their competition, one of them being MS.

Apple's style and level of empowerment is unique, and heretofore non-existent, especially in what was AN MS-dominated market, when Apple was still emerging as a real powerhouse once again. The "smaller scale" you're talking about wasn't the Microsoft/OEMs universal-licensing racket, that, while putting a PC in every home also ensured years and years of laying the shaft on consumers. That "other" item of empowerment was the original Macintosh.

Apple is doing things Bill G and now Ballmer could only have dreamed of. But neither of them really cared to put the work in to make it happen. And why bother? Just keep shoving windows onto PCs and watch the dollars roll in.

Meanwhile Apple makes their money on strength of product, not on strength of licensing.

Your inclusion of anything MS in the same breath as "empowering people" needs some serious re-thinking. Microsoft was never in that business. And a quick comparison of both MS and Apple ecosystems for the past decade shows you exactly how true that is.

 

[Renzatic]

Since buying my iPad, I have admittedly been feeling more empowered and self-actualized. Apple has given me the ability to create. The drive to redefine. The will to push the paradigm. The power...to be.

As a nonconformist, I knew I only had one choice: Apple. Instead of buying a Windoze machine like a Wal-Mart sheeple (Whole Foods FTW), I stood in line for 3 days to buy something truly unique: The iPad. A machine built upon freethinking positive energy, and (though I'm loath to use such an antiquated word, there is no other way to describe it's majesty) miracles.

Thank you, Steve Jobs. Thank you for giving me a product that makes life worth living.

edit: not to toot my own horn, but I'm now putting the finishing touches on my new book, which was totally written on my iPad. Coming soon...

The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Dick and Jane: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender Modes.

...and here you all thought it was just a Pre-K reader study. OH WHAT FOOLS YOU ARE! I expose it for what it is: a document that indoctrinates our children into the modern American Patriarchy.

 

[AppleScruff1]

Windows?

LOL.

There's a reason Apple does so well in the market. Part of it's driven by the absolutely lousy products foisted on consumers by their competition, one of them being MS.

Apple's style and level of empowerment is unique, and heretofore non-existent, especially in what was AN MS-dominated market, when Apple was still emerging as a real powerhouse once again. The "smaller scale" you're talking about wasn't the Microsoft/OEMs universal-licensing racket, that, while putting a PC in every home also ensured years and years of laying the shaft on consumers. That "other" item of empowerment was the original Macintosh.

Apple is doing things Bill G and now Ballmer could only have dreamed of. But neither of them really cared to put the work in to make it happen. And why bother? Just keep shoving windows onto PCs and watch the dollars roll in.

Meanwhile Apple makes their money on strength of product, not on strength of licensing.

Your inclusion of anything MS in the same breath as "empowering people" needs some serious re-thinking. Microsoft was never in that business. And a quick comparison of both MS and Apple ecosystems for the past decade shows you exactly how true that is.

What I stated needs no re-thinking. I see things clearly, your biased. Microsoft and Windows has done more for the world than Apple has. Fact. The world runs on Windows. I know it's a hard swallow, so take a deep breath and try to relax. Remember that your beloved iCloud runs on a Microsoft product.

 

[fromoxwithlove]

*cue the banjo.....

LOL..."Strum" as you walk up to it

 

[macbook pro i5]

these have been in australia for years in JB HIFI and Dick Smith etc

AND New Zealand we're not that small

 

[DanteMann]

And fankiddies really try to call their iproduct a premium luxury product? Really? Sorry, but nothing sold int a Walmart will ever be considered premium or luxury. LOL.... Hope this finally puts that story to rest.