Blu-ray @ Walmart and Amazon.com

[Gimpy Ric]

Wally World is selling the Sony BDP-S300 for $488.00 plus two free BD titles AND the five free titles via rebate. Not bad.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5984216#Item+Description

Amazon.com has the $499.00 PS3 60 gb for sale, with "Momento", plus a Blu-ray remote, and five titles via rebate. Thats $200.00 worth of free stuff!

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/news/show/PlayStation_3/Amazon/High-Def_Retailing/Amazon_Bundles_$499_PS3_with_Free_Remote_and_Memento_Blu-ray/760

 

[avaserfi]

Looks like now that you have embraced your format you want everyone too . Not a bad choice with Blu-ray though.

My dad bought a ps3 as a HD player one week before the price drop even though I told him to wait because I have a good feeling. I picked it up on ebay for him for about 500 so it wasn't that big a loss minus the movies, buy hey! I could have taken them then .

Ohh and I love the far right image on your banner its great!

 

[Gimpy Ric]

I swear I don't own Sony stock!

Yes, I'm digging the web for Blu-ray as hard as I can, I'm glad google is free Plus, I've been Blu-ray since before Christmas, where I made an impulse buy on a PS3 for my sisters family. My brother in law, who is 40, is one of the top online players with a PS3 and "Need for Speed, Carbon Edition". He so good, nobody will race him, so no less than six times he's changed his user name and started from scratch, right back to the top.

 

[zumbo]

If you give your money to Wal-Mart, prepare to work there in the future. This company places demands on other companies to sell products to them for less and less, while they pay their employees less. This is causing good companies to go out of business. If you don't think it will effect you, you are clearly mislead!

Support your locally owned stores, or buy off the web. You will win in the end.

 

[Gimpy Ric]

Don't shoot the messenger! I'm not very fond of Wally World, although it's a great place to play hide and go seek

 

[furrycute]

If you give your money to Wal-Mart, prepare to work there in the future. This company places demands on other companies to sell products to them for less and less, while they pay their employees less. This is causing good companies to go out of business. If you don't think it will effect you, you are clearly mislead!

Support your locally owned stores, or buy off the web. You will win in the end.

This is just how business is run nowadays. Move all the manufacturing offshore where to wherever labor is the cheapest. Then import those products back to U.S. where consumers will pay top dollar for them.

This is a sad sad world we live in.

 

[j_garcia]

Walmart has been carrying BluRay for quite some time now, they just don't carry them in most of their stores You can order it online and get free shipping to any store though... I hate Walmart and avoid it at all costs.

Memento. Excellent movie, but was reviewed as being not much better than the previous DVD release and doesn't even have the great extras from the Special Edition release.

 

[TheWick]

If you give your money to Wal-Mart, prepare to work there in the future. This company places demands on other companies to sell products to them for less and less, while they pay their employees less. This is causing good companies to go out of business. If you don't think it will effect you, you are clearly mislead!

Support your locally owned stores, or buy off the web. You will win in the end.

All while making things cheaper and cheaper for consumers. Welcome to capitalism.

 

[zumbo]

All while making things cheaper and cheaper for consumers. Welcome to capitalism.

"Cheaper" is the key word. I like quality products, and food. I prefer to spend my money at a place that wants to provide me with quality, not crap.

Can you imagine what your audio options would be when the quality locally owned store or internet dealer, who has an actual store, goes out of business?

 

[Duffinator]

This is just how business is run nowadays. Move all the manufacturing offshore where to wherever labor is the cheapest. Then import those products back to U.S. where consumers will pay top dollar for them.

This is a sad sad world we live in.

A manufacturer looking for the lowest cost has been part of the business world and capitalism since the beginning of time. Don't look for that to change anytime soon. OTOH, Walmart has taken that perspective to a new low. I rarely step foot in a Walmart but have a few times. I feel the same way about Sam's Club and hope they are spun off from Walmart in the near future.

 

[mikeyj92]

I won't even shop stores that are next to a walmart, let alone actually go into a walmart. Guilt by physical contact.

 

[abefroeman]

Can you imagine what your audio options would be when the quality locally owned store or internet dealer, who has an actual store, goes out of business?

There are 2 good ways to make money as a business:
1 Be the cheapest and win sales on cost.
2 Sell the best product and win sales with differentiation.

Quality locally owned stores will never be run out of town by a Walmart, because walmart will never sell top of the line stuff. (Athough I could see them carrying something like Klipsch in the future)

 

[abefroeman]

Please don't take my last post out of context and tell me about all the locally owned grocery stores and retailers that have been forced out of business by Walmart. These were company's who were tying to compete as a low cost supplier and lost to Walmart.

I am talking about highend or premium suppliers of anything. Think about the idea of walmart putting a rodeo drive/saville row tailor out of business and you will get the picture.

 

[Johnd]

Please don't take my last post out of context and tell me about all the locally owned grocery stores and retailers that have been forced out of business by Walmart. These were company's who were tying to compete as a low cost supplier and lost to Walmart.

I am talking about highend or premium suppliers of anything. Think about the idea of walmart putting a rodeo drive/saville row tailor out of business and you will get the picture.

Hmmmm. Do you work at Walmart? As others have posted, I avoid them like the plague. I occasionally shop there out of convenience, preferring other stores. They do not always have the lowest price. I do not enjoy being coralled like a bull in their automaton-like mega centers, and I generally detest their locations and jumbo parking lots. Civic planning at its' finest. Though I'll admit they have an absolute right to compete (fairly), provided that particular city or town grants them pemission.

 

[abefroeman]

Hmmmm. Do you work at Walmart?

Fortunatly no, they don't pay very well.

If it looks like I am supporting them I am not. I do not like shopping there. It is a horrible place to be, and if I am ever there I am basically running to try and get done with my shopping. But they are an absolute force in the retail market and I have to respect that.

My experiences have been that they are generally cheaper than other stores.

 

[stratman]

There must be a reason why they're so big. As long as people think they're getting a good buy, they'll shop there. Anyway you look at it, no one is being forced to work there and those that do must be there for a reason too. Home Despot drove a bunch of mom and pop hardware stores out of business in the Miami area, but I can tell you two that adapted are thriving and will never be touched by the Despot: Everglades Lumber and Shell Lumber, both provide service that Home Despot doesn't (and isn't interested in providing, if they were they'd train their personnel better) as soon as you walk in a sales persons asks what you need and how they can help, they'll walk you too the proper aisle or get you the item, when was the last time someone did that at Home Despot? They're also "niche" players, carrying merchandise that Home Despot wouldn't carry (exotic woods, special tools, etc.) so their stores are always packed.

 

[Thunder18]

I've got to say, several times when I've been working on a car late into the evening and none of the usual auto parts stores are open and all of a sudden I need a tool or something. Wal-Mart is about the only place open.