While Wal-Mart will always be our hot spot of choice for picking up a mixed assortment box of granola bars and meeting other thrifty, outdoors-loving singles, the retailer is on a course to upping its electronics game, in light of the void left by
Circuit City's closure -- about $11.1 billion in annual revenue just there for the taking. The store is rolling out new boutique sections for Apple and Nintendo products to some of its electronics departments this week, is adding to its selection higher-end Sony and Samsung televisions, will be expanding its Blu-ray equipment and selection, is nabbing some Studio One 19 all-in-ones from Dell next month, and obviously is getting the
Palm Pre next month as well. Apple has been traditionally slow to offer up its higher-end products to Wal-Mart shelves, so hopefully this means that not only will Wal-Mart be doing Macs "right," but perhaps Apple will give a little in return and offer some more sub-$1000 macs beyond the Mac mini and low-end MacBook -- some
Laptop Hunters fare, if you will.
[Via
AppleInsider]
posted May 19th 2009 4:22PM
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
Is it the store, or the people who shop there, that bothers you most?
Walmart, the quasi-hippie kryptonite.
For me, it's the people who work there. I've never seen such a group of neaderthalic drones.
And not the type that you can start a revolution with, Lars.
It's the fact that their stores don't offer fair wages and promotions to women and minorities.
Without question it's the Wal-Mart's clientele that I despise the most. But the tasteless Bible-thumping money machine that is Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. isn't much better.
I don't know where you live but the walmarts I live near, almost all the management and upper staff members are female Mexicans. Plus you can make $10 an hour as a cashier. I live in denver, maybe it's different where you live. Secondly if you can't adapt to a innovative business model like walmart does/ has, your company will die. This is just business. If you can't keep up with competition, your not going to make it. All these f'd up companies suing other companies because of a new way of doing business and complaining that they can't keep up it. Then go out for Government hand out, deserve to die. Chrysler, I am talking about you. I am not for this capitalistic based system we are in, but we are so deal with it. I would love a resource based system, but we are all too greedy for that. I guess humans just love "mine is bigger than yours" type of wars.
I know one thing for sure. Wal-Mart's customer assistance can't be any worse that Circuit Schitty
but we're not talking about chrysler
walmart is one of my favorite places to go Mullet-hunting
I guess humans just love "mine is bigger than yours" type of wars. - that's what she said!
You think Wal-Mart will replace Firedog with Firebird? Smokey and the Bandit FTW!
At first glance i thought she was giving a handjob to Bill.. lol
think i'll go in search of some pron now
my dad has been a cashier at wal-mart for 8 years and he still only makes $20,000 a year, so STFU about fair wages brdystyls
Yeah, because everyone knows Mac users get all their other electronics at Wal-Mart. Blech.
Walmart overprices most of their computer accessories, so apple will fit right in. JK...
But seriously, its only gonna help apple get into more rural areas of the country and that's a good thing.
This is the kind of Mac users that will be buying at Walmart.
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20021126
Don't be the typical smug Apple fanboi.
@ the angry intern
Since when is an adult with a third grade education and the possible desire to bang their own sister a good spokes person for a product? Lets just hope condoms are as intuitive to use.
Well, there's always Micro-Center and BestBuy ?
This sound interesting
Walmart back Apple?
Bestbuy back Microsoft?
Walmart backs Microsoft too?
Actually Best Buy has been the only retailer (aside from apple stores) allowed to sell Macs for some time now :)
Best Buy backs Apple, too. Some of them have what amounts to a wee Apple store inside them.
@DavidW
That's funny. The Micro Center down the street has sold Apple since they opened over ten years ago.
Yea, the Best Buy I go to has a full mini center setup for apple products. It actually blocks out the PCs, but they have a pretty high markup so.
@DavidW
CompUSA was selling Macs since 1997... Only retailer? maybe in small town america where you live?
What a ridiculous article. We've seen the discounts Wal Mart offer on Apple products when they released the iPhone - about $2.
Here comes the $597 Mac mini!
Obviously this is apple's way of wal-mart not destroying the sales at their apple stores. If wal-mart could sell the iphone or ipods cheaper they would.
Way to dilute the brand.
I thought the whole idea of walmart was to save customers money? Look out Walmart, you're not too big to FAIL.. Look at GM!
what's with that picture? that advertisement is so not true.
But the Laptop Hunters ads are pinnacles of truth and unbiased information?
I want to make another version of that ad that goes the other way.
OK, all Macs over $1000 step aside
(90% leave)
All Macs with quad core CPUs and over 2GB RAM step aside
(the remaining Macs leave)
/written on a sub-$900 PC that has never crashed or had a virus. Does have a quad core and 4GB RAM though.
I refuse to buy my Apple products at Wal-Mart. It is the exact opposite of an Apple store.
"The exact opposite of an Apple store."
Soooo..... they buy stuff from you?
Cowboys go to walmart, people just leave apple stores walking like cowboys...
Both funny responses. But seriously, K.F., don't be a pretentious douchebag. Wal-Mart and Apple stores are both about one thing and one thing only: making money. That's not exactly "opposite."
Apple fanboys and Wal-Mart shoppers, however... yeah...
Somebody's getting a macbook box filled with rocks for Christmas.
Already happened at BestBuy last month, Unibody MacBrick Pro...
Well there goes my job at best buy...
Dude I know...fortunately the Wal-Mart next to my store is HORRIBLE so I'm not too worried....
No hate or rage, but that picture/thumbnail is stupid.
*sigh*
But Saad, its supposed to be funny because they stereotype us as losers... Why are we calm again?
Oh, now I remember.
Despite apple and its followers being the "cool, smug, and condescending", they also drive competition with their high end products, and that's why I like apple.
Apple inspired the Zune, and I love that. Capitalism 101 my friends.
You're right Saad, a screen cap of an ad that features somebody that's going to buy a Mac is entirely irrelevant to an article about a large chain of stores that is about to start selling Macs.
Oh wait... no it isn't. You're an idiot.
@ zak what do your feet taste like? read his post again, he said stupid not irrelevant.
so im guessing you are now the idiot, eh?
I'm sorry ronald, you must be mentally challenged. That picture in particular is stupid why, exactly? It is completely relevant to the article, therefore not stupid. I'm sorry you couldn't put two and two together and come up with four.
Your avatar/icon is stupid.
Gahh.. I hate the Apple section of Best Buy. It's so pretentious.