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No best buy ad in our paper.

The cashier should have done the match with no questions asked because it was such a little $$ difference. I am biased but I like walmart over kmart. I've never been in a nice kmart, they are always run down with about 20 different shades of yellowed floor tile, etc. I do work for walmart btw.

Of course they are sold out to hold them for tomorrow.

This is correct. Laptops should be $378 at pretty much every walmart.

I'm off school all week long. I am however working at Walmart 5 days for 40 hours.

It says $488 for the store I work at for both. I spoke with management, they really do not know how much the real price is going to be yet. They have heard that there are 8 items that will be priced lower than what the ad price currently is at and the laptop/desktop should be part of this. Our store only got 10 laptops though.

No, to walmart that is considered a fake/gimmick promotion. It must be a flat price across the board to match.

FYI: Most items on sale at walmart are not the normally stocked items on shelves right now, they are usually a 1 time deal with a unique UPC number.

Cwilliams, you are partially right. Blitz items are not ordered by management but normal items can and are ordered by management. Corporate controls everything about Blitz. I am going to check into this the next couple days to see if I can get any real information instead of all these rumors.

Just got home from work, the ads that the store was shipped have the price at $488. Sounds like we got 10-15 laptops for the store which is a small supercenter. Larger stores may get more in. Does anyone have a upc or item # for this laptop?

Well if you think of things from walmarts standpoint, leaving the stores open makes sense. People will be browsing and buying items not on sale driving up sales. Walmart of course would like to have enough items for everyone to get what they want but that is not possible realistically. People will buy normal priced items to make up for the small margins on the blitz items.

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Personally I'd stay away from all Lexmark and Dell (inkjet) printers. Bad experiences, crappy software, cheap printers. I believe all HP cartridges come 1/2 full of ink in new printers.

The store will have the ad for themselves, not for the customers. Walmart rarely inserts ads in newspapers. There will be the black Friday ad in the Thanksgiving papers though.

Been around a while, I check in every once in a while.

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I have a staples $20 off $100 that expires 11/25/05

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Store management works all different hours. I would talk to a co or store manager only.

In reality all supercenters should be open 24 hours except on Christmas day. Some districts might allow a store to close down but I wouldn't expect there to be too many stores like that.

No sense putting any potential blitz items on layaway right now as it has been mentioned that the items will most likely all have unique UPC's. Walmart considers the items special buys. The prices are pretty much locked in and won't rise after the special hours. Stuff will just sell until there is none left. Yes I work at walmart.

The stuff is usually in the action alley's (main isle's) around the store. Just because it is an electronic item doesn't mean it will be anywhere close to electronics. Each store will be different.

The only way you will find out for sure is by asking management at your local store. Chances are they do not know what they are having on sale yet. Most stores don't find out until about a week before the ad starts.

I really really doubt that is the same model laptop. You would have to do a UPC comparison and I'm pretty sure it is different. That $688 laptop does not have enough markup room to sell for $400.

She will probably have to remind them that it is cheaper. The transaction already happened at full price and layaway just has it for you to pay off that full price.