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Wal-Mart to Sell iPhone Starting Sunday

moracity said:
Yeah, they are a big evil corporation that provide millions of jobs and affordable goods/services to millions of people. Wal-mart helps to drive down overall prices in the economy as well.
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FYI - I had to buy a couple of USB cables for a client site and at Wal-Mart they're $15 each...

Same cables (name brand Belkin) are $7 each at Frys... :eek:

(I stocked up...) :)
 
moracity said:
If you want to label something evil, look at unions. They provide $$ to themselves and higher prices to the rest of us. Unions are what have allowed companies like Wal-mart to thrive.
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And corporations DON'T provide $$$ to themselves? Complete B.S.
 
i really dont understand the whole argument of exclusivity....


you do know anyone can go to the apple store or at&t store. it seems like people just dont want apple products sold at walmart because of the type of people that shop at walmart..which isnt that nice to say and also ipods are already sold at walmart...

how does selling something at walmart reduce the value of the product when the price is basically the same? i understand if the ipod was for 89 there and 200 everywhere else...but its only 3 dollars cheaper...and im sure walmart is probably pitching in those 3 bucks anyways...
 
moracity said:
If you want to label something evil, look at unions. They provide $$ to themselves and higher prices to the rest of us. Unions are what have allowed companies like Wal-mart to thrive.
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I know, right?! Things were so much better in the days when 14 year olds were working 12 hour days, 6 days a week for subsistence wages until they suffered some sort of injury and were left by the wayside. Then the profit-driven unions had to come through and ruin it all.

What I'm really sorry I missed out on though was feudalism. Now those were the days...
 
I find it odd how many Apple users on this board have elitist attitudes towards Walmart. Economic times have changed. We now have a global economy, and in many cases...yes many of the small mom and pop stores are gone. They are unable to compete, kind of sad, but times change.

I have met several people that work at Walmart and they enjoy their job and think highly of their employer.
 
I don't understand these complaints about "meager $2 off". It could me much worse if Apple was talked into making significantly cheaper ( crippled ) iphone, well... say.. no accelerometer, no gps, 4 gb instead of 8g. And mandatory nvidia gpu.
 
This is ****ing stupid. Apple wants iPhones in Walmart as if Walmart has an untapped market that a person shopping at AT&T, Apple or Best Buy doesn't have.

They do this but they can't get Macs into all the Best Buy locations. My local BB could easily support a Mac store inside it.
 
stockcerts said:
I find it odd how many Apple users on this board have elitist attitudes towards Walmart. Economic times have changed. We now have a global economy, and in many cases...yes many of the small mom and pop stores are gone. They are unable to compete, kind of sad, but times change.
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You vote with your dollar. It's not elitist at all. You have a choice where to spend your money. By spending your money at Walmart, you are endorsing their practices of running small mom & pop stores out of business. Do not disconnect yourself from the action just because of the downturn in the economy. You are indeed supporting Walmart's practices by shopping there.
 
skellener said:
You vote with your dollar. It's not elitist at all. You have a choice where to spend your money. By spending your money at Walmart, you are endorsing their practices of running small mom & pop stores out of business. Do not disconnect yourself from the action just because of the downturn in the economy. You are indeed supporting Walmart's practices by shopping there.
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Which is why I don't have a problem buying Microsoft stuff.

Bill Gates has pledged to give away 95% of his wealth to charity --- so when you buy Microsoft products, you will ultimately help the world. Bill Gates isn't going to spend money on a 400 foot yacht or buying a sports team or spending money on a third/fourth trophy wife.
 
It might be time to sell my iphone. At one point the iphone represented cutting edge technology, and now it's literally just another chinese made gadget they sell at Walmart.

Oh well, it's been fun. On to the next big thing! :eek:
 
Hermitage TN Wal-Mart is ready at 7:53pm

My son spotted the units charging on a storage shelf.

Sorry for pic quality, I was trying to be discrete, taken on iPhone 3g.
 

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stockcerts said:
I find it odd how many Apple users on this board have elitist attitudes towards Walmart. Economic times have changed. We now have a global economy, and in many cases...yes many of the small mom and pop stores are gone. They are unable to compete, kind of sad, but times change.

I have met several people that work at Walmart and they enjoy their job and think highly of their employer.
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It's unions. Unions = money in liberal pockets, so non-union establishments = bad press in liberal media. Bad press in liberal media = uninformed liberals hating said entity. Let wal-mart unionize. That would be tantamount to a 15% sales tax on goods because wal-mart forces other retailers to price their goods lower. Wal-mart is a company who has always refused to play by the underhanded rules of retail whereby retailers will collude with one another to keep prices high. Wal-mart generally runs in and drops low price bombs on their high profit margin parade. Why the hell do you think you can get a 50: TV from samsung for less thatn $900.00?
 
Wal-mart Bashers

Putting the iPhone into Wal-mart is just about market penetration. You can get just about any other mobile phone there, and ALOT of phones move through those kiosks. Not putting the iPhones there would be just stupid on Apples part, as it would be limiting your market penetration. This is an excellent move for Apple as a mobile phone maker.

For Apple the computer maker, the more revenue Apple generates from iPhone sales, the less attention the computer side of the business will get. Unfortunately, if Apple really achieves market dominance with the phone line of products, then the computer side of things will suffer greatly, as it will not be the profit center of the company.

Wal-mart has a great business model, and the infrastructure to be the great company they are. I really feel like the problems within the company are not systemic but are the product of bad people and decision making, and the company as a whole is not evil. You just are going to have bad folks in a company any time you have THAT many people employed. It is a never-ending process to find them and weed them out.
 
SPUY767 said:
If wal-mart unionized its labor force I'd boycott.
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Wal-mart will never unionize, but the employees might.

Then Wal-mart would shut down that store. They have done this repeatedly. They have the legal choice to not operate if they feel they cannot profitable operate the store after it unionizes.

All you Apple elitists are just that... elitists. And probably proud of it, but are too democrat to just come out and be PUBLICLY proud of it.
 
JoeG4 said:
Way to go, Macrumors community, to generalize like the rest of you guys:

The average MacRumors goer is:
*Ignorant
*Racist (I saw a half dozen illegal immigrant comments, mexican comments, and spanish comments)
*See ignorant for my second accusation, bunching mexicans in with the rest of spanish people and insinuating they are all illegal immigrants is racist.
*Elitist

You guys disgust me. Now I see why people keep saying the worst thing about owning Apple hardware is you get generalized as a Mac user *shudder*
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I completely agree. I see this so often: there are so many elitist snobs who equate the :apple: logo on their computer with their own political ideology...as if a computer company has anything the hell to do with gay marriage or whatever else you are trying to shove in people's faces. Mac users fall into every political category, folks. There are Mac users in "red states"....yes someone actually did make an asinine comment about Apple not setting foot in red states. :mad: A couple months ago, I posted this rant and was immediately jumped on and ripped to shreds for sounding like an elitist snob just because I hate $300 PCs. Yet the amount of racism and politics that is stirred up among elitist MR beach boys at the mere mention of Walmart FAR surpasses that I think. :rolleyes:
 
mozadek said:
There are wal-marts in China, I remember reading an article about the only wal-mart in Germany closing because the people didn't shop there because they didn't want there to be a wal-mart.
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It seems that in Germany Wal-Mart cannot find any suppliers. Every supplier there knows that as soon as they sell anything to Wal-Mart, no other supermarket will take any of their goods.
 
Sehnsucht said:
I completely agree. I see this so often: there are so many elitist snobs who equate the :apple: logo on their computer with their own political ideology...as if a computer company has anything the hell to do with gay marriage or whatever else you are trying to shove in people's faces. Mac users fall into every political category, folks. There are Mac users in "red states"....yes someone actually did make an asinine comment about Apple not setting foot in red states. :mad: A couple months ago, I posted this rant and was immediately jumped on and ripped to shreds for sounding like an elitist snob just because I hate $300 PCs. Yet the amount of racism and politics that is stirred up among elitist MR beach boys at the mere mention of Walmart FAR surpasses that I think. :rolleyes:
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True dat!I'ts fashionable to hate walmart because you "care"about the workers,even though their wages and benefits are in line with other discounters.The same idiots have no problem going to Taco Bell or 7-11.And forget the benefit of low prices to the millions of lower income americans!Hypocrites all!
 
Max E Verde said:
I wouldn't recommend buying it from Walmart unless you live nowhere near an Apple Store, AT&T store, or Best Buy. Like already said, the associates will know jack squat about the phone.

I do see how this could add to the iPhone market share, though. If someone is already shopping at Walmart, which more people do than Walmart deserves, they might find it while looking at other items and end up buying it.

Here's where you should buy an iPhone. Only go to the next one if the one above it isn't near you.

1. Apple Store - They know all about the iPhone, inside and out. 90% of the people here USE iPhones as their normal phone. They know about the plans too, though not as much as AT&T.

2. AT&T - They know all about the service, but not much about the iPhone.

3. Best Buy - They have a whole department dedicated to cell phones, with associates only trained to sell cell phones. Still, they have such a large selection of cell phones that they won't know too much about the iPhone

4. Walmart - Last resort
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I'm intrigued.Exactly what question would anyone on macrumours need to ask about the iphone before buying it at ANY store???
 
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