If you think Walmart still has old ammo stock I have to wonder what planet your living on.TexasLookout wrote:Yes my concerns are for the independant businessman ,and consumers.
I walked into Walmart last week in the afternoon. Picked up Winchester 100 rd value pack $40.77 and for sure it was old stock. Several months back I paid $37 so that's about 10% increase for old stock. I can see why the indepedants need to increase retail cost to offset lower volume sales.
As far as 3 shifts to produce munitions I haven't heard of a company that would not not hire more help vs. Paying overtime and benifits yet.
Didn't they see this coming from the last few years?
I'm not crying here as we have purchased at on-sell prices last year.
And for sure the market is being munipulated.
The reason you run 3 shifts in stead of just adding more people to 1st or 2nd shift is because your equipment is already running at capacity for those shifts. The only way to increase production is to add a third shift so that the equipment runs more hours per day.
The only other way to increase production is to expand facilities. No one is going to do that until more is known about what congress is going to do (or what Obama might try to do). If they do nothing then the demand decreases and then expanded facilities would not be needed.
With all due respect, I don't think you are understanding all of the dynamics at play.
