Wal-Mart now offering Web deals on caskets | The Columbus Dispatch

this is just creepy

They really do sell everything. I'm waiting for them to start selling cars next

It's not like they are selling them next to the tires & fishing poles... it's just an online catalog.

On Black Friday they're going to offer as an incentive with a casket purchases "free" family size 72lb. bags of Sams Choice Cheese Puffs (for the wake) and so a snack bag can be sent along with grammy. Are these caskets "reverse tapered"
(you know, wider at the hips)..... cause "even tho I been to 17 County Fairs and a couple Arkansas goat ....s I've never seen butts as wide as I see waddling around in wal-marts."

Meathead123 wrote:

It's not like they are selling them next to the tires & fishing poles... it's just an online catalog.

That would actually be pretty funny, set up the caskets as an "impulse buy"

Between Walmart gobbling up all the retail business and Obama trying to manage all of our health care, cash for clunkers, cash for clunker appliances, etc., we can't lose. Everything is being done for us. How nice! I detest Walmart and hardly ever shop there, too much big brother and too much junk! Loved pikkil47's response, too. Priceless!

a tisket a tasket I bought Pop a Walmart casket

They must have run out of Mom and Pop stores to force out of business so now thery are going after the funeral homes.

Mike wrote:

They really do sell everything. I'm waiting for them to start selling cars next

They are trying to keep up with Costco. Costco has offered caskets online for awhile now and the Polaris store always has a car for sale on display in the store. No word on whether Costco participated in the Cash for Clunkers program though.

sewbabe wrote:

Between Walmart gobbling up all the retail business and Obama trying to manage all of our health care, cash for clunkers, cash for clunker appliances, etc., we can't lose. Everything is being done for us. How nice! I detest Walmart and hardly ever shop there, too much big brother and too much junk! Loved pikkil47's response, too. Priceless!

Great! Thanks for your thought. Now, you can go and rejoin your mountain-men militia and practice target shooting!

The Happy Crab wrote:

They must have run out of Mom and Pop stores to force out of business so now thery are going after the funeral homes.

Actually those "mom and pop" funeral homes are a racket. It cost $7000 to bury my dad, and half of it was the casket! They got you by the b---s when you're in a state of grieving, and you don't really have much of a choice. I'm glad to see somebody finally competing with them, whether it's Walmart or somebody else.

maybe they could sell the plots too...like around the perimiter of the parking lots...we could visit grandma on our way to buy those cheeese puffs!

Mike wrote:

They really do sell everything. I'm waiting for them to start selling cars next

Actually, as with the caskets, they do have agreements with various auto brands on sales through WalMart division, Sam's Club, as well as for boats and RV's.

The problem I have with WalMart is I do believe that it is possible for a company to become so large that it implodes under its own weight. I recall numerous discussion on this topic when I was a Business Management undergrad at Franklin University. That was 20 years ago and I believe the reasoning is the same then, as now.

WalMart in order to gain any level of growth must cannibalize its own customer base. This becomes obvious when in many markets WalMart adds more stores, very close to existing stores. There are also a long list of conduct issues by WalMart that raise concerns by many, including issues such as attempting to control suppliers, treatment of employees, and conduct in relation to opening of new stores.

There are also anti-trust issues in relation to WalMart that are likely to surface sooner rather than later.

Walmart is gearing up for the Democrat's Tom Daschel inspired Healthcare plan which pays for itself by moving thousands off the Government roles and into the grave.

I bet they are Chinese made caskets that have lead in them You know, lead is a health hazard....oh....wait a minute..........

MIbutnot Blue wrote:

Walmart is gearing up for the Democrat's Tom Daschel inspired Healthcare plan which pays for itself by moving thousands off the Government roles and into the grave.

Oh, pleez, oh pleez, can you go first? Annoying cynic.

So are these under "outdoor storage" on the website?

as you know the cost of funerals in rising fast the best thing is to plan on a cremation no service no funeral home no casket, after all after your gone noo one goes to your grave anymore. why not cremation and your ashes scattered to the 4 winds

I'll be dead and gone, as far as I'm concerned my worries will be over. I don't care if I'm buried or cremated. I'll find myself a nice house to haunt and just scare the hell out of people

Jerry wrote:

So are these under "outdoor storage" on the website?

actually...they are under the "For the Home" and "Funeral" categories.....but that's funny...