No cash sales of ammo at Walmart?

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OP, can you provide the address of either store so that I can call, talk to a store manager or department manager, and see what's up? Conjecture is cool, but we might as well know for sure.

Looks like there are 20 stores in the Orlando area. I called store 1084 on 3838 S Semaron Blvd and spoke to a lady in Sporting Goods who claimed to be the dept manager. She indicated they take cash for ammo, so that evidently wasn't your store. I'd rather not call all 20 stores (time consuming). I'd call the home office but its best to have talked to the particular store in question before doing that IMHO.

Any help would be appreciated...getting to the bottom of this should be interesting.
 
Maybe this store is only taking credit cards for ammo sales to help keep track of the "3 box per day/per customer" (or whatever limit this store has set) limit? I can see how a customer might come back a few hours later and either dispute that they were in earlier that day making an ammo purchase or come back hoping that shifts had changed and new employees would be none the wiser? Making it credit card sales only, I would imagine that they could set the system to check for duplicate names making ammo purchases within the same day?
 
Fender, this could be true, however it is complicated. What I mean is that although the store may or may not be free to enforce its own policies on whatever, the store is not free or even able to modify the operation of the cash registers.

In order to keep track of purchases per individual, the register (actually, the systems in the back office that the registers connect to) would need to keep track of that sort of thing. And especially if a driver's license scan is required as one poster above indicated - I don't think DL scan is done as part of any normal transaction at Wal-Mart. Those types of changes are system updates that would come down from the home office. Individual stores cannot tailor the operation of the cash register.

Now, this update, once written, could be pushed to one store or all stores in a region or selected stores here and there or the whole domestic chain. So maybe it only affects part of Florida. I believe an earlier poster, also from Florida, indicated that cash sales of ammo at his WM were still being allowed.

We should be able to get to the bottom of it once the store address is provided by the OP. Although it is getting late in the day in Florida. Someone knowledgeable might not be available now until tomorrow.
 
I go to the Wal-Mart on Rt. 101-A in Amherst, NH. The lady behind the counter asked for my driver's license. Now, the authorities know that I have guns. I am on pretty good terms with the police chief in my town. He signed my pistol permit for me. So I showed her my ID. It's not like I have anything to hide, or anybody to hide it from. She barely glanced at it, handed it back, and told me that she needed to see if I was from MA. They have to show some kind of gun purchaser's ID card for MA, or it's no ammo for them.

I also go to the Derry, NH store and the Manchester, NH store. These are arguably as close to MA, but I have not been carded at those stores. :confused:
 
my bank just started to require a fingerprint if you were cashing a check from me at my bank, if you did not have a account there. i told them that was total bs, if the money was in my account to cover the check they had better cash it(they always check by punching up my info on the computer,so they know if the account has money in it or not). if they do it to some one i write a check out to, i,ll close out all my accounts and only keep 2000.00 in my checking account for normal house hold bills, and go to all cash.(keeping it in my safe at home and in a safety depoist box at the bank) eastbank. ps i will not take a check from any one that i can,t cash with out being fingerprinted.
 
Wal-mart puts tons of money into perfecting their supply chain. They have the BEST supply chain in the world. It normally works about as close to flawlessly as imaginable.

This ammo thing has really mawled a very small aspect of it. This is a great stress test that they can get some really good data from.
Are you going to 6 wal-marts every morning and trying to buy your 6 box limit?
How many people are reselling for profit?
Maybe they should start carrying at Sam's club and let gun stores buy from them.
I am sure that they could pull a lot of VERY valuable data from itituting this policy in one or two metropolitan ares. It isn't like they aren't going to sell the ammo because you refused to buy it.
 
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Has anyone emailed the Wal-Mart corporate office yet and asked about this?

I'd try to buy some ammo at the Wal-Mart here with cash (as I've done before) but our's hasn't gotten an ammo shippment in about 6 months. :confused:
 
+1 for airforceshooter

Airforceshooter sumed it up best. A big reason for ammo shortage and possible why some walmarts may be doing this is because I stopped at a local gun shop a cpl fridays ago and was chatting it up with one of the workers and he let it slip that they have been sending people to the walmarts and sporting good stores around here and buying up all the pistol ammo, and sure enought they had more than 10 and the 100 rd boxes of winchester in each caliber and several 50 rd boxes, lets just say I wont be buying from them anylonger.
 
Guys: You sure have milked the last drop out of this thread. If the OP Wal-Mart wasn't taking cash for ammo...so be it. Hasn't happened in my area. Regardless, WM can and does dictate its own policies. This is really a non-issue.
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What time of day was this? Sometimes the register in sporting goods does not have a cash drawer. I bought at night once and they said I had to pay there with a card but in paying I hit a button and did a 20.00 cash back... I ended up waiting 10 mins for someone to run a 20.00 to the sporting goods desk because they did not have a dime in it.

That can be the problem. So if you bought at night or any time that the person working there is gone.
 
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Last time I bought ammo at Wal-Mart (a few months back), I paid cash. But, since most of my ammo is bought online, I use plastic.

I havent given much thought to "conspiracy theories" regarding ammo as of yet.

Now, if the government makes it "mandate" that all ammo be "accounted for" in terms of who is buying what and how much of it is purchased, THEN I will worry. Until then, paper or plastic wont matter much to me as long as I can find what Im looking for. ;)
 
Guys,

I don't know how many other Federal or other LEO's are out there but let me dispell one great myth. I have worked many years as a uniformed officer and also as an investigator and TRUST ME there is no such thing as the "super efficient government".

We dont even come close to the technology you see on the big screen and TV. Without divulging any secrets , most of the stuff we use to track bad guys on the move, etc... you can buy if you have enough cash through any spy shop. Our arrests are made in large part by good old fashioned policework and I would ague abut 60-70% from interviews depending on the type of crime.

There is, thankfully, such a thing as the fourth ammendment and it offers all of us a great deal of protection that requires govt to generate a great deal of paperwork and probable cause to overcome. Big Brother does'nt have the cash, time, or the right to place super secret barcodes on anything and could'nt do it without the public knowing. When things like that are done its usually the manufacturer themselves doing it for some reason, for example hiding car's VIN numbers in different areas of the vehicle, etc..

Cheers to the moderator. Your credibility is not a function of your postings! In fact one could argue the opposite that someone who posts all the time is a cyber "commando" living vicariously through a "persona" created for certain forums. This assertion is equally wrong of course.
 
I am the OP...

First a note to Mike: "WOW"!
I certainly didn't intend to make a little wave into a tsunami and I hope this incident hasn't ruffled too many feathers...but I appreciate your stance with this forum. It was very tempting just not to come back. Too many forums have become infected with unwarranted vitriol.

***Someone asked which Walmart stores were involved. I don't know the store numbers but the one that would not take cash is on Turkey Lake Road (and it's the only one ON that road) and the "no sales at night" store is on John Young Parkway and Sand Lake Road.

I did stop by yet another store tonight (Wednesday) over in Melbourne (about 75 miles away) and was able to buy a box of .30 Carbine WITH CASH and with no "AT NIGHT" problem.
This particular store has now posted signs indicating a "6 item maximum" purchase. It didn't really matter tonight because they didn't have any handgun ammo anyway! :rolleyes:

And so it goes..........

Mike
 
im positive its to make kids not be able to purchase ammunition. which is stupid because you can ask for an ID. but a card would make it harder
 
Here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast our Wal-Marts do take cash, however, no ammo sales after 8PM. One distressing thing they did do was to stop all ammo sales after Hurricane Katrina for about a month (just when we needed it the most).
 
I just called store 4332 at 8990 Turkey Lake Road. You can get the phone number from wal-mart's web site. I asked for sporting goods and when the lady picked up there I asked to speak to the department manager. She indicated she herself was the department manager.

I asked her about cash for handgun ammo and she said that was fine. I then said "Well, a customer of yours was in there early this week and attempted to buy handgun ammo with cash and was refused." She indicated that perhaps there was a misunderstanding when the clerk tried to communicate the purchase limit policy the store has. That policy is one box of each type of ammo per customer. So I could by a box of .45ACP and a box of .22LR, but not 2 boxes of .22LR. I did not go into detail about how they expected to enforce this with people coming in at different times of the day, etc.

The OP indicated the clerk read "No cash sales of handgun ammunition...credit card only" off of the cash register display. The department manager didn't indicate anything about that, although I didn't ask her "does your register say this". I just asked if they take cash for handgun ammo and she said yes. She seemed nice enough, although maybe a little exasperated over the whole ammo shortage thing. I'm guessing she's had to fend off more than a few peeved customers recently. But I don't think she was holding back...e.g. "No we don't personally refuse cash...BUT THE REGISTER DOES!!"

Also the OP indicates he bought the last two boxes of handgun ammo but doesn't indicate what caliber they specifically were, only that they were common caliber. I wonder if they were the same caliber?

Whatever happened, sounds like it probably won't happen again. If it does, then the buyer should have the clerk turn the register display around so he can see it, and note what is said. Then complete the transaction with a credit card (if you can) and then keep the receipt. There will be a bar code and a transaction number at the bottom of the receipt (if memory serves). Also, the time and date of the transaction, which cash register and cashier, etc. That information can then be discussed with the store manager. Kind of a pain, but worth it if we want to know what is going on.
 
I just called store #908 at 8101 South John Young Parkway and tried to speak to someone in sporting goods. No luck after being put back on hold many times for about 10 minutes. Then I asked for a member of management. When a lady finally picked up, I asked her about sales of handgun ammo after 8pm. She said "hang on" and went to check. She came back and said "no, it is 9pm, and there is a sign posted." I asked why and she said "state law". I asked if it was a recent law and she said no, it had been that way for as long as she has worked there, back even when they sold handguns (!). The store has a low enough store number, but man, wal-mart hasn't sold handguns since about '91 or so. If memory serves. That is, back in Tennessee where I worked in a store.

Anyway, I'm trying to research this alleged Florida 9pm ammo sale cutoff law and am having zero luck. Google is really slow today and Yahoo wasn't much help, so I went to myflorida.com but their site search is powered by google it seems. So its slow too.

Anybody ever hear of a 9pm ammo sale cutoff law in Florida?
 
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