Wow - never heard of, or experienced, that. I've bought ammo at this WalMart 3-4 times, and at two other locations once or twice. All on the NW side of Houston. They've always just bagged the boxes at the sporting goods counter and let me walk off. The time the incident that generated this post occured, I had a cart with me and put it into the cart with other (unpaid for) purchases - no problem....stevie_d_64 wrote:I thought they didn't want you in the store shopping around after you bought ammo from them back there...
They had to hold my hand and be escorted all the way to the door after the last time I bought ammo from them...
Maybe I had that look about me...
Good to know I cannot be trusted at WalMart...
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- Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:26 pm
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Secure your ammo, especially in public!
[This actually happened to me about a month ago, which was the last time I was able to actually find ammo in WalMart (but that's another thread in itself)]
Normally when I go to WalMart for any reason, my first stop is in the sporting goods section to check out ammo - if they have any, I pick up 2-3 boxes of WWB for my next trip to the range. On the day of this incident, they actually had some of the "Value packs" of Winchester 9mm, so I happily picked up three boxes, paid, double bagged them and put them in the "kid seat" of the shopping cart my wife and I intended to use for the rest of our shopping.
Fast forward 20 minutes later to a half full cart - we were in the cereal section and I was contemplating whether it was going to be a Raisin Bran or granola week when I heard a "plink" come from the direction of the cart (about 5 feet away). The cart was in my peripherial vision so I knew nobody was near it, but looked directly over that direction and didn't see anything odd. After a second I went back to the cereal boxes only to hear another "plink", followed by "plinkplinkplink". As I looked back at the cart I was horrified to discover that the bag containing the ammo had rolled over at some point, and the top to one of the boxes of ammo had just popped open - one of the cheap WWB boxes was disgorging what seemed to be a waterfall of 115gr 9mm rounds out of the cart and onto the Wallyworld cereal aisle in a quickening pace.
I managed to catch the bag before more than 15-20 rounds had spilled out, and scrambled to gather them off the floor. Luckily, the other shoppers nearby didn't even notice what was going on - one of two of them had looked in my direction, but didn't realize what most liberal newpapers would consider to be, by that point a "small arsenal's worth of ammunition" that had spilled out of my shopping cart. If they had noticed, hopefully I'd of received a "mulligan" since this is Texas, but I will admit that I had visions as I grabbed the escaping ammo of having to explain to walmart's crack security detail (and possibly a sheriff afterwards) what I was doing sowing bullets in the breakfast foods section!
Normally when I go to WalMart for any reason, my first stop is in the sporting goods section to check out ammo - if they have any, I pick up 2-3 boxes of WWB for my next trip to the range. On the day of this incident, they actually had some of the "Value packs" of Winchester 9mm, so I happily picked up three boxes, paid, double bagged them and put them in the "kid seat" of the shopping cart my wife and I intended to use for the rest of our shopping.
Fast forward 20 minutes later to a half full cart - we were in the cereal section and I was contemplating whether it was going to be a Raisin Bran or granola week when I heard a "plink" come from the direction of the cart (about 5 feet away). The cart was in my peripherial vision so I knew nobody was near it, but looked directly over that direction and didn't see anything odd. After a second I went back to the cereal boxes only to hear another "plink", followed by "plinkplinkplink". As I looked back at the cart I was horrified to discover that the bag containing the ammo had rolled over at some point, and the top to one of the boxes of ammo had just popped open - one of the cheap WWB boxes was disgorging what seemed to be a waterfall of 115gr 9mm rounds out of the cart and onto the Wallyworld cereal aisle in a quickening pace.
I managed to catch the bag before more than 15-20 rounds had spilled out, and scrambled to gather them off the floor. Luckily, the other shoppers nearby didn't even notice what was going on - one of two of them had looked in my direction, but didn't realize what most liberal newpapers would consider to be, by that point a "small arsenal's worth of ammunition" that had spilled out of my shopping cart. If they had noticed, hopefully I'd of received a "mulligan" since this is Texas, but I will admit that I had visions as I grabbed the escaping ammo of having to explain to walmart's crack security detail (and possibly a sheriff afterwards) what I was doing sowing bullets in the breakfast foods section!