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    I live in a small liberal college town in the PNW and there is still NOTHING available here on the shelves, not even shotgun ammo. The manager at a local retailer told me they haven't had any ammo in stock forever because their company is sending what tiny amount of ammo they get to the stores in towns where they expect the highest demand instead of distributing it evenly among stores. Guns and mags have started to come back, but still no ammo. I haven't yet resorted to paying high prices+shipping from an online retailer, but if nothing improves in a few more months I might have to. Glad to hear other parts of the country are doing better.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bullitt View Post
    I live in a small liberal college town in the PNW and there is still NOTHING available here on the shelves, not even shotgun ammo. The manager at a local retailer told me they haven't had any ammo in stock forever because their company is sending what tiny amount of ammo they get to the stores in towns where they expect the highest demand instead of distributing it evenly among stores. Guns and mags have started to come back, but still no ammo. I haven't yet resorted to paying high prices+shipping from an online retailer, but if nothing improves in a few more months I might have to. Glad to hear other parts of the country are doing better.
    Was at one of the dozen or so Walmarts in my town yesterday...the wife was shopping in the store & stores at the shopping center it is located at.
    Nothing for me to do, so I went back to see what was in the "case"...
    nada, zippo...but the "associate" came out and she produced the truck manifest for the dept. and it had .45ACP / 100 Value Paks....380ACP / 50's & .40's / 100.
    Some 12 g SG too...but it was 2pm and the truck had not even arrived let alone start unloading.
    Had to go elsewhere, but had to come back there at 3PM and the same guy I see in most ALL Walmarts I may go to depending where I happen to be, is there and says the truck is in and will be unloaded by 5PM-6PM...he, along with a few others "regulars" that straggle in are going to wait FOR 3 BOXES of only ONE caliber for 3 hrs.
    NUTS.
    I got into some interesting conversations with a few guys there and ended up staying to 5PM 'cause my wife was shopping but when she was ready I left. If ammo had come out, yeah I would have bought some .380 & .45 but don't care if I leave without...just killing time.

    I would NEVER go there alone, to purposely wait 3 hrs. for 3 boxes of ammo...these guys, a "pack" of 10 or so, like wolves do this EVERY day...not going to affect prices at Walmart, though, they always maintained "normal", or pre-scare prices...they just keep anyone else, not willing to stand around for hours, of getting any ammo and some of these guys are wiping out inventory everywhere, regardless of cost, as soon as it hits the shelf.
    I do not see the motivation of LGS & online sellers to EVER lower the prices if this pattern continues?
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    Quote Originally Posted by DDM4LV1 View Post
    I do not see the motivation of LGS & online sellers to EVER lower the prices if this pattern continues
    If the supply vs demand situation remains the same it stands to reason prices will remain the same as well.

    But they won't stay the same.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Warp View Post
    If the supply vs demand situation remains the same it stands to reason prices will remain the same as well.

    But they won't stay the same.
    Exactly. Eventually the hoarders will have hoarded enough, manufacturers will have a surplus of stock as well and prices will drop. I was lucky enough to score big on an ammo purchase before the scare.

    I am still holding off on training a lot because of replenishment concerns. I am sure I am not alone in holding off to preserve my reserves. This has got to be hurting ranges.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CLJ94104 View Post
    Exactly. Eventually the hoarders will have hoarded enough, manufacturers will have a surplus of stock as well and prices will drop. I was lucky enough to score big on an ammo purchase before the scare.

    I am still holding off on training a lot because of replenishment concerns. I am sure I am not alone in holding off to preserve my reserves. This has got to be hurting ranges.
    +1 and where I am, it is the ranges that have the ammo, well they need 100,000 Rounds per caliber...funny to in to the LGS / Range and see boxes upon cases sitting there ...9mm , 5.56 and if you ask "have you got any..." " , they say no, pisses off a lot of folks, but understandably, they need to operate the range and the "range" is bread & butter for some of the LGS.
    Maybe if they were more discreet in the way the store it...?

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    Quote Originally Posted by DDM4LV1 View Post
    Was at one of the dozen or so Walmarts in my town yesterday...the wife was shopping in the store & stores at the shopping center it is located at.
    Nothing for me to do, so I went back to see what was in the "case"...
    nada, zippo...but the "associate" came out and she produced the truck manifest for the dept. and it had .45ACP / 100 Value Paks....380ACP / 50's & .40's / 100.
    Some 12 g SG too...but it was 2pm and the truck had not even arrived let alone start unloading.
    Had to go elsewhere, but had to come back there at 3PM and the same guy I see in most ALL Walmarts I may go to depending where I happen to be, is there and says the truck is in and will be unloaded by 5PM-6PM...he, along with a few others "regulars" that straggle in are going to wait FOR 3 BOXES of only ONE caliber for 3 hrs.
    NUTS.
    I got into some interesting conversations with a few guys there and ended up staying to 5PM 'cause my wife was shopping but when she was ready I left. If ammo had come out, yeah I would have bought some .380 & .45 but don't care if I leave without...just killing time.

    I would NEVER go there alone, to purposely wait 3 hrs. for 3 boxes of ammo...these guys, a "pack" of 10 or so, like wolves do this EVERY day...not going to affect prices at Walmart, though, they always maintained "normal", or pre-scare prices...they just keep anyone else, not willing to stand around for hours, of getting any ammo and some of these guys are wiping out inventory everywhere, regardless of cost, as soon as it hits the shelf.
    I do not see the motivation of LGS & online sellers to EVER lower the prices if this pattern continues?
    Just one of many, many reasons to never shop at Walmart.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mkmckinley View Post
    Just one of many, many reasons to never shop at Walmart.
    What??

    The fact that they are offering regularly priced ammunition, which severely undercuts market price, and that they aren't allowing one or two flippers to buy everything all at once...is a reason to never shop there?

    What do YOU think they should do? Sell every box that comes in to the first person in line? Allow employees to openly buy everything themselves so that nothing is sold? Raise their prices?

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    Yes, if you want to reliably (or, more reliably) make your products available when demand exceeds supply, you can either raise prices or ration the supply.

    So, what you are really saying when you complain about the situation at Walmart is that they should either further ration the supply or raise prices.

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    This whole thing is ridiculous. People need to quit complaining.

    If you guys hold you freakin' horses for a few months, just a few months, and this thing will improve exponentially. As an example, three months ago it was nearly impossible to get a Colt LE6920 - now they are easy to obtain.

    But noooo... people want their ammo stockpile, and they want it NOW. This is fine, because, come next recession, they're going to be dumping all of this extra ammo back on the market for dirt cheap.

    Humans are not rational creatures - quite frankly, the behavior of gun owners over the past few months is highly distressing to me. No wonder liberals are terrified of some of these people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by justin_247 View Post
    Humans are not rational creatures - quite frankly, the behavior of gun owners over the past few months is highly distressing to me. No wonder liberals are terrified of some of these people.
    Humans are ****tards generally speaking. I remember a few years back a pipeline broke between Phoenix and Tucson, and Gas Panic buying was just like this.

    Stations out of gas everywhere... Retards following the fuel trucks to stations. Just a really disturbing look at how stupid people really are.
    "You people have too much time on your hands." - scottryan

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