Wally’s is (supposedly) getting out of the ammo business and they are selling their remaining inventory off cheap
While that is true to some extent, it is somewhat misleading. People think, "selling their inventory" means selling what they have left on hand in their stores and warehouses. That is not the case. Wal-Mart has contractual agreements with most all of their vendors, (ammunition manufacturers included), to purchase a given amount of product during the duration of said contracts.
What that basically means in a nutshell, is they will continue to purchase ammo from their vendors, and sell it
until those contracts run out, not the ammo supply in their stores.
That is how Wal-Mart is able to sell it's goods for less than other stores. They agree to purchase very large volumes of product over a given time span. They have the ability to move large amounts of product, because of the size and amount of stores they have. Where as other stores do not have the nationwide, (and in some cases worldwide), sales network that Wal-Mart has. They then get these goods at much cheaper prices. It's basically nothing more than, "volume pricing" on steroids.
The bottom line is Wal-Mart could very well keep selling ammunition for the next several months. For some stores it might even be a year or more, until the purchasing contracts run out.
Remember, this was all politically motivated by Wal-Mart to appeal to the anti gun crowd. So it was an almost certainty there was going to be a fairly large amount of B.S. wrapped up in the whole proposal. This was it.
"Getting out of the ammo selling business", was basically true..... However it will be at their leisure. The dollars,
ALWAYS the dollars first and foremost.