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More marketing PR bullshit. If there are no phones in stock it doesnt matter how many outlets you have.

Just make enought phones to supply the demand Apple. That is all you have to do.

Oct 13, 08 - 09:17 am Comment from: MacBill

Wal-Mart is an evil company on all levels. Avoid them at all costs. Watch the documentary "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price"
http://www.walmartmovie.com/

Oct 13, 08 - 09:24 am Comment from: El Guapo

@MacBill

Right there with ya!

Oct 13, 08 - 09:29 am Comment from: Horseman

I never... EVER... shop at Wal-Mart

Oct 13, 08 - 09:37 am Comment from: shen

Wal-mart, your source for cheap plastic crap, employee abuse, and economic ruin....

I'm not a fan of Walmart. WalMart has destroyed more Main Sts in this country than anyone else. They also are anti-union and remain that way thru fear of intimidation instead of paying higher. better wages. Who was on the Bd of directors for WalMart .... that " people loving " Hillary Clinton.

I thought iPhone was for those who can afford to pay premium for the exceptional quality and unmatched by the competition features.

Not exactly Wal-Mart crowd.

In 6 PM news: you will be able to buy iPhone in Dollar stores by Christmas.

Now why could the iPhone have come out before I died?!

eh.... why the hell not ~ everything else sold at Wal-Mart is made in China. the 3G should fit right in there... unfortunately.

Oct 13, 08 - 10:11 am Comment from: Think

Imagine the tech support calls from this crowd?
There is a reason it should be expensive.

Oct 13, 08 - 10:24 am Comment from: jarrettdailynews

Some of you sound like the people who bitch about oil prices. If you would own the oil company stocks, then you would bitch about gas. Wal Mart is a business, nothing more and nothing less. They can afford to pay those low wages because your ignorant relatives and some of you yourselves keep going and applying for jobs there. And please, please stop with the "I never go to Wal Mart" crap. My wife and I were horrifies at the Wal Mart movie, but I was more pissed that I had owned the time and again when it was a splittin.

Quit being so judgemental, get a second or third job, and retire whenyou are 45. Goodnight,

Oct 13, 08 - 10:27 am Comment from: Randian

Gawd, but this site is SOOOO hip and elite. "I hate this, I hate that, this is the death of America, that is the end of the common man, nobody looks out for Joe Sixpack, I'd NEVER shop here or there or anywhere, Apple is a brigand, main street is a relic of bygone days, it's only Macy's and Mom&Pop;for me, low prices be damned, I want to pay more for everything, unions are beatified, employers are satanic, plastic is bad, wood is good, China and everywhere non-USA bad, neighborhood book stores good, technology for a price negative, technology for free positive, little = beneficial, big = destructive, corporations are diabolical, struggling/inefficient stores are heavenly."

There. I feel better already. (Now must go buy some anti-freeze at Wal-Mart.)

Oct 13, 08 - 10:29 am Comment from: Jamie

Fuck Wal-Mart, and Fuck ASDA (their UK outlets)

Avoid at all costs

This baffles me... How can Walmart sell something that isn't a cheap piece of crap?

I mean, the iPhone IS made in China, which is a requirement if you want to get into Walmart, but it also (hopefully) won't break within a year like every other piece of electronics garbage they sell at that giant dump.

Oct 13, 08 - 10:35 am Comment from: qka

So this is the hit on margins that Apple's CFO oppenheimer was warning us about?

WalMart is keeping North America clothed and fed. Grow up and get a life.

Oct 13, 08 - 10:42 am Comment from: KingMel

@Jamie, you don't shock me. But you do undermine your own statements with your obvious lack of style and substance.

I am not a big fan of Walmart, myself. The Walton empire lost its soul when Sam passed away. But it is not entirely 'evil' as many enjoy claiming. Walmart, as an entity, has the same level of conscience and compassion as most other corporations - zero. That's because corporations reflect their management and board, who spurn their fiduciary responsibilities and moral obligations in the name of greed.

MDN, I am afraid that you have lost control of your forum. This is why I chose not to implement a public forum on my own web site.

Oct 13, 08 - 10:48 am Comment from: TexasAg03

Wal-mart, your source for cheap plastic crap, employee abuse, and economic ruin....

I won't argue about cheap plastic crap. However, I would disagree with the employee abuse and economic ruin. In my town, employees are leaving other stores and going to Wal-Mart because they PAY BETTER. I used to work at the Kroger in town and I still know several people including many now in management. They have told me that they can't keep cashiers and carry-out people because Wal-Mart is paying at least $2 an hour more.

As far as economic ruin, well maybe some businesses have going under due to Wal-Mart, but the ones that did in my town weren't very good to begin with and most had already started the slide down to closure before Wal-Mart built the new supercenter.

I don't celebrate Wal-Mart in particular, but they are nowhere near as bad as some say...

@Al

At what cost? They outsource every single thing they can. The reason so many people have to shop at WalMart is because they no longer have the good paying jobs making the products WalMart has made in China.

TexasAg03, don't be a fool.

They are every bit as bad as everyone says. Please get a clue. Take some time out of your schedule and do some research.

Wal-Mart is selling the U.S. out to the lowest bidder. Just because Wal-Mart offers a couple jobs at better hourly pay means NOTHING. WOW $2 dollars an hour more!!! Whoopie! Talk about low expectations. You could buy more than 2 quarts of gasoline per hour! You could run your car for almost 10 miles for that!!!

I know, it adds up, but you get my point.

KingMel, this is not a forum you twit. This is a message board. It keeps people coming here and posting things like your tripe. Defending Wal-Mart. Please give me a break. Why would anybody feel the urge to defend Wal-MART!!!!

Cool!
Now let's get Costco on board.

Posters on this thread are a bunch of elitist losers. Walmart has been the best anti-poverty program ever invented. It has helped more average and lower-income American workers put decent (not "great") food on the table and clothes on their back--without loss of dignity or dependency--than anything or anyone else. BTW, the "documentary" linked to above is a union hack job. Walmart employees are typically better compensated than at the expensive mom-and-pop groceries they have been putting out of business. The campaign against Walmart is funded by unions--which have destroyed every American industry they dominate--and is supported by ignorant snobs like those on this thread.
Disclaimer: I have no personal or financial stake in Walmart.

@The Other Steve and Jake

Costco is actually pretty good. They try to buy American made products, have a higher starting pay and provide much better health insurance and benefits than WalMart. I think it was 60 minutes that did a pretty good piece on how they are a big box retailer who is trying to do the right thing. They get a lot of grief from Wall Street for it.

To call WalMart the best anti-poverty program is just plain crazy. I have seen first hand what happens to small communities when WalMart enters. No body ends up better off. Everybody just works more hours at the company store.

Oct 13, 08 - 12:07 pm Comment from: TexasAg03

TexasAg03, don't be a fool.

They are every bit as bad as everyone says. Please get a clue. Take some time out of your schedule and do some research.

Wal-Mart is selling the U.S. out to the lowest bidder. Just because Wal-Mart offers a couple jobs at better hourly pay means NOTHING. WOW $2 dollars an hour more!!! Whoopie! Talk about low expectations. You could buy more than 2 quarts of gasoline per hour! You could run your car for almost 10 miles for that!!!

I am not fool and I know a few people who work there. I have done research, just not at the anti-Wal-Mart nut sites.

The reason I brought up the $2 wage difference was that is the point I most often hear against Wal-Mart - they don't pay well. I would say that $2 an hour more for a CASH REGISTER WORKER or a grocery bagger is pretty good. No one is going to get rich there, but for that type of work, the pay is good.

Wal-Mart makes the news because of how big they are and how much money they make, but they are comparable to most other retailers. Working retail just sucks - I did it for years.

Why write a fresh MDN take, when this MDN classic from last year could have been used:

"That said, Wal-Mart and Apple seems like the perfect "left side of the bell curve" marriage. Mobile phones sold to people who don't know what they're buying by people who don't know what they're selling. Mouthbreathers rejoice!"
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/13706/

(For convenience, company name and type of item updated by me to reflect the current partnering.)

Oct 13, 08 - 01:58 pm Comment from: ragarcia

Wal-Mart did not kill mom and pop outlets...

The people that shop at Wal-Mart instead of the mom and pop outlets are the ones that killed them.

I recently saw a Dan Rather special that followed this lady around after she had her job outsourced to China.

The lady was complaining that the chinese did things cheaper and that is why she didn't have a job.

Then, she goes to Wal-Mart to buy stuff that, as it turns out was made in China (the documentary was as well tracking the origins of products that end up in Wal-Mart's shelves).

So guess what, she wants to buy at Wal-Mart because its cheaper, but she doesn't want to lose her job or get paid lower wages than the chinese in order to support her addiction to cheaper products.

If you shop at Wal-Mart (and any other retailer whose mantra is "we are the cheapest ones") then you are to blame.

You ALWAYS have a choice.

Oct 13, 08 - 03:06 pm Comment from: payrolldude

We have a Wal-Mart, but we don't have AT&T;, so I am still SOL.

Oct 13, 08 - 04:19 pm Comment from: lurker

Funny thing is, the iPhone won't be any cheaper at Wal-Mart, so you won't loose anything by buying it somewhere else.

Walmart's mission statement:

"Lower the world's cost of living."

"The people that shop at Wal-Mart instead of the mom and pop outlets are the ones that killed them."

Absolutely right. Wal-Mart's only crime is to be delivering goods more efficiently resulting in lower prices.

Those who wanted the Mom and Pop stores to survive were free to organize the community to shop there instead of the local Wal-Mart.

But the communities voted with their wallets and chose an extra chicken in the pot every week and new shoes for the kids over subsidizing Mom and Pop's leeching on the community by selling overpriced products.

As someone noted, through low prices and the effective income boost that gives every Wal-Mart shopper, Wal-Mart has done more to eliminate poverty and raise effective wages for Americans than any union ever has.