Last year the wal-mart by me did hand out tickets for the higher end items that they hand limits on. The direction to hand out the tickets was a decision made by the asst. mgr and the store manager. Before the opening of the store they announced how many of the big ticket items they had such as the computers, then handed out tickets for those items, that way the customers in line new ahead of time. They also handed out maps of where the black friday items were located in the store. I think it just depends how well your local
wal-mart store is ran by their management team.