RE: walmart sucks
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Broadheads are not a perishable item that will be a waste cost item to Wal-Mart it is a item that will store in backstock if not sold this year to sell next year, or can be left on the shelf to sell the remaining 3 months of the season. <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' size=2 id=quote>
True, but storing inventory costs big money. As Cabelas said, building, heat, personnel etc, and don't forget about taxes. Not a real smart move to keep items on a shelf that you don't plan on selling for another 8 or 9 months. Not to mention that archery equipment design changes from year to year, so if they make an improvement to your broadheads (or even the packaging), then the heads that wallyworld has on their shelf are now "old" and your probably going to buy the "improved" broadhead next year, not the old ones walmart had stocked. I would guess they order just enough to know that they will sell out and leave it at that. Ordering more is taking a risk for them, and I doubt that is how they got to be a multi-billion $ company.
LadyF, please don't take what I am saying the wrong way. I am in no way trying to come down on you at all. I've had the same thing happen to me, and they are especially bad with turkey hunting supplies (they ran out of turkey loads before the season even started!). Luckily I am in an area that has other stores within a 30-40 minute drive, plus a big sporting-goods store not far away. Not always convenient driving around to different stores, but better than the alternative.
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