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So Walmart started selling CPUs and video cards because

FelixDeCat

FelixDeCat

Lifer
...Newegg started selling vacuum cleaners?
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http://www.walmart.com/cp/Processor-CPU/1072844
 
Leros said:
I'm surprised Wal-Mart online hasn't become as big as Amazon
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I'm not, all they have is the name brand and it isn't exactly synonymous with quality. Walmart is low prices, amazon is everything. What's more is that Walmart knows huge chain B&M stores, whereas Amazon knows shipping and logistics with middlemen to interconnect a range of retailers and etailers to provide not only just about anything, but also to provide it with what is often the lowest price.
 
Sluggo said:
I'm all for WalMart pricing on vid cards and CPUs if it means good deals.
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But wait - buying from WalMart would end up, as with many other industries, moving the manufacture of these products out of the United St....


oh. :hmm:

Carry on.
 
Years ago walmart used to sell video cards and memory, but I have not seen a video card or a memory chip in walmart in several years.

Just about everything walmart sells is low end and cheap. When people buy the stuff, it does not preform as expected when they get it home. Look at their desktops and laptops, they are usually in the less then $500 range.

I have often wondered how much training the people in electronics get. When I ask a questions, the eyes of the walmart employee glaze over like they have been eating donuts.

When I bought a video card from walmart in the past, it was usually for one of my kids computers, and I needed something in the low-mid range of performance.
 
Texashiker said:
Years ago walmart used to sell video cards and memory, but I have not seen a video card or a memory chip in walmart in several years.

Just about everything walmart sells is low end and cheap. When people buy the stuff, it does not preform as expected when they get it home. Look at their desktops and laptops, they are usually in the less then $500 range.

I have often wondered how much training the people in electronics get. When I ask a questions, the eyes of the walmart employee glaze over like they have been eating donuts.

When I bought a video card from walmart in the past, it was usually for one of my kids computers, and I needed something in the low-mid range of performance.
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Donuts cause you to zone out or enter some sort of trance-like state?
 
Slew Foot said:
Stuff probably gets dropshipped from the same warehouse.
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Oooo....I just thought of something....You know how Amazon has been leaving states and ending affiliate relationships that have starting imposing online sales taxes regardless of origin? Ill bet WalMart is trying to step in and fill the void because they collect sales tax nationwide anyway. :colbert:
 
I bought my rice-cooker (really, a rice cooker, not a chinese PC component) from newegg last year. I got a very good deal.
 
I have to laugh at Walmart trying to "reinvent" itself these days. The company built itself on selling the cheapest garbage around, with customer service and corporate image to match. Their flailing attempts to change their image to be that of an upscale store have been most amusing to watch. Last I read the only "success" they've had in that department is they are losing the perception of having the best prices with the same store sales decline to match. Most other chains were forced to adapt themselves to a higher end niche in response to Walmart expanding on their turf in order to stay in business and now Walmart is trying (and failing) to play catchup to go that way too. The thing is Shaws, Hanafords or small local grocery stores didn't have a brand name that was synonymous with trailer trash, low quality and incompetent/bad customer service to start from.

I guess this development is good news if you're a thief. You could probably take a dump in a video card box and return it to Walmart. And unlike Best Buy I doubt they'll spend the tiny amount of money necessary to get competent people to prevent these sort of losses.
 
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