Bobafett73

I never even saw any carebears lol, at our wal-mart they were gone probably in a matter of minutes. I'm sure people picked 10 each like they did with the portable dvds over in electronics. I never even saw the other side of the store with the computers,dvds until around 5:30. Talk about a zoo.

Wow, 50 of them at Sioux Falls. I'm from Rapid City, SD. Yeah there were lots of people that were grabbing folding chairs and sitting down. Those first two hours from 2 am to 4 dragged on. Then around 4-5 when the people really started to come in it went pretty quick. I had some annoying lady in our line that got out, got back in, got out and then thought our line was for the gameboys. She asked me if I could save 2, I said I'll try. Come to find out there was a seperate line for the gameboys, I was happy. She even asked me if I could bring them to layaway. I politely said no I have other things to get.

Didn't get the carebears, oh well. The merchandise was not in it's usual area this year. Most of the merchandise like the computers, $3.44 dvd, and more were along the action alley near the grocery side of our supercenter. There were huge lines in electronics for laptops, digital cameras,gameboys and each had their seperate line. It was pretty crazy but I didn't see any pushing or shoving, just had some lady get her butt chewed out for cutting into our line for the MP3s when there was already an MP3 line.

I arrived at my Wal-Mart supercenter at 2:00 am and there was about 10 people ahead in line, total there were 35 laptops that were being given tickets for to those who were first in line. Things were pretty good and there wasn't any chaos with people trying to cut in line. One lady was trying to cut into our line at the last minute after 5 am and some of the people started to get pretty crabby behind me. She finally found the right line for the MP3s. How many laptops did yours have and how was your experience?

This is just a guess and every Wal-Mart store could have less or more. I am guessing that Wal-Mart supercenters in smaller areas with populations of around 10-15,000 will be receiving in 15-20 laptops. Our area with a population of nearly 70,000 will be receiving 33 laptops according to the electronics dept mgr. The store 50 miles from me will only be receiving in 20 and their population is around 12,000 Both mgrs from each store said that the laptops would be given out near the electronics counter. This makes sense since most of the electronics items from year to year have been along the back isle also called Action Alley by Wal-Mart employees. I believe that it will vary from store to store on exactly how much they get in. For the stores that do a lot of business they will see more, the ones that don't do very good could see less. I work for the Wal-Mart in Rapid City and everyday it is a zoo in there. There's even talk of building a second supercenter here. So I'm thinking areas with bigger populations would receive more, but I could be wrong about that one. I think it all depends on the volume the store does. I hope that helps anyone who was trying to figure out how many their wal-mart will get in. Again this is just my opinion and it is not to be taken litterally. Good luck to you all in getting the laptop, etc...