Walmart and its employee issues.

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Sounds like the clerk was being conscientious and diligent, though wrong, so
humor her and then buy the ammo.

Or.....

.....get a lawyer who can practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and make it
a real federal case.

No in-between course of action that I can see.
 
I had a kid at our loacal walmart tell me they were out of 22lr, so I was looking at scopes and other gun stuff and seen another guy walk up to the counter. The same kid pulls 3 bricks of 22lr out from under the counter and proceeds to sell them to him. I walked abck over and said you told me you were sold out of 22lr, whats the story here ? He says this guy called earlier and he was holding them for him. I smelled a rat and demanded to see a manager. I told the manager what had happened and he says to the kid, are we playing games again. Then told the kid to go punch his time card and he was fired. The manager said that was the third time this kid was caught holding 22lr for friends. Walmart policy with ammo is first come first served with a 3 brick limit on 22lr.
 
Remember, you're dealing with minimum wage people and not the tip of the spear. Don't expect too much from them.

BTW, you wife should have taken it for a compliment.
 
Walmart applies the term "straw sale" to pretty much anything that involves an age restriction, from bottles of bb's to AR-15s. The reason is simple. All it takes is one mistake and the store can be in serious trouble.

I would have gone along with letting them see the card, but I don't like trouble. Then again, I almost never get carded anymore. If I didn't mind standing around, I would have run it up the chain of command right there. That means asking for a "salary member of management." There is always at least one in the store, and they are the people who can hire, fire, and give raises; and they can also give discounts to customers...

Also, I don't know why associates get the reputation of being stupid. Many are college educated or college students, and few if any make minimum wage. Some obviously need training on the details of policy and how to apply it with common sense.
 
I will rarely ever defend Walmart for anything, but to play devil's advocate I think that employee was either exercising a little CYA or wasn't trained very well.

Maybe a straw purchase was attempted/made at that store recently and all of the employees were instructed to be hyper vigilant, and that employee misread you and your wife. And then the supervisor trusted the employee's instinct or didn't want to look weak in front of his/her employee and gave you the same answer.

I have no clue what the ammo penalty is, but for an employee selling alcohol to someone underage during a sting operation they typically get arrested and fired.....double whammy. To avoid all that drama, trust me......if there is even .01% doubt in their mind, they're going to make a decision that covers their backside, even if it is bad customer service. Let's face it, a person working at Walmart probably doesn't have many job options and simply cannot afford to make a job-ending mistake.

Or maybe the employee wasn't trained well, or doesn't usually work in that dept and was only helping out because they were shorthanded (thus untrained in the laws and policies).

Who knows.....if you're still hot about it, I would submit a complaint online and talk to their corporate office about the policy. No other option that I see.

-Tom
 
I would like to point out that if you do decide to boycott any product or any business, the boycott loses most of its effect, if they don't know you are doing it, and why.

To make a point, they have to know that they have lost a sale, and why.
 
Now if I was in that shopping event...

I'd say, wife show her your id. Sale completed. Then I'd say you are not very good at checking ID's, wife showed you her FAKE id, the one she uses to by booze and ammo and guns.

See ya later, thanks for the ammo for me and my underage wife and, oh have a nice day :p
 
If you dont like store policy, so be it. At least they had ammo you wanted. To bad you didnt have to wait half an hour so someone could find where the keys got left.
 
See ya later, thanks for the ammo for me and my underage wife and, oh have a nice day
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Admitting to having and using a fake ID could lead to police being called, and to a great deal of inconvenience.
 
Lots of potentially complex solutions. I'd mention it to the manager and look for another Walmart.
Life is getting too short to deal for very long on cr@p like this.
 
Walmart can get away with stuff like this because too many people will turn into helpless sheep being led to the slaughter rather than demand reasonable treatment. I would have left the store and vowed never to return for anything, not just ammo. To those of you who said he should have asked his wife to just show her ID and be done with it: what if the clerk had said I want you and your wife to sign a form swearing to not have illegal intent in the use of the ammo; or said, we want to photograph you and your wife and take your fingerprints so we have a clear record of who bought this ammo, etc., etc. Where do you draw the line? This is how freedom is lost, one small step at a time, whether to the government or to big corporations.
 
Admitting to having and using a fake ID could lead to police being called, and to a great deal of inconvenience.
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I don't agree. They weren't using their ID for any legally mandated reason, just a Wally's rule which probably wasn't being interpreted correctly by the clerk anyway. And, there ws no fake ID. It is against the law in some states to posess a false ID. Nobody did in this hypothetical case. I suppose Wally could call the coppers if they wanted to. They can't hold you. You didn't shoplift. Nobody has violated any laws, including the clerk, who probably has no legal right to demand ID from the non-ammo buyer. But asking for that ID is probably not a violation of anything.

I view this incident as a great opportunity to receive a free gift card from Wally's regional management. That tiny payout comes out of something retail stores call their "oops account".


Sgt Lumpy
 
I buy ammo at WallyWorld all the time

I'm in there 1-2x per week sniffing out ammo. I have NEVER been asked for id. I am 61 years old, and maybe that's why. But, when we're all queued up for the 8:00 pm daily ammo 'sales' event, even the younstas' just buy their ammo and leave - including all forms of handgun ammo, and without showing id.

Love living in a free, well-armed state...:)

-Smokiniron
 
If you don't like them do not support them. Pay the extra few bucks and support someone you like.
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That's right, there's tons of the exact same kind of ammo Walmart sells at gun shows and on gunbroker. And, it only costs twice as much!:D
 
I would have just shown the ID and been done with it.
I respect private businesses rights to do whatever they want.

Rules or no rules, doesn't matter, you are on private property of a private business.
 
I dont get it... the whole thing is kind of ignorant, what do they say to people who buy ammo with their kids along?

We've all run across these unreasonably ornery people who relish any opportunity to annoy the rest of us...
I bet a doughnut that the clerk is somewhat (or entirely) anti and uses the ID issue as a policy-legitimate way to irriate customers, all of whom she probably dispises anyway.

Why not just show the wifes ID to complete the sale, then tell the clerk to stuff it for making things difficult?
 
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Hmm, it may be wise (if you have a smart phone) to keep a copy of your local state gun laws on your phone or perhaps even a bookmarked page on your phones internet browser to reference such things.

May be difficult though, considering how many of the buggers are out there (gun laws I mean).

Personally I'd likely take my buisness elsewhere, Wally world by me doesn't have much in stock in terms of ammo anyway. I get carded all the time anyway since I'm still fairly young (Having a baby face doesn't help either)
 
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