
Tickets at Walmart
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Posted Sep 19, 2007 - 12:23 am
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Posted Sep 19, 2007 - 1:45 am
LAst year we asked the manager at the Walmart that we shop at why they didn't pass out tickets for items like the TVs. The manager told us that the head offices wouldn't allow it. Did anyone else have this problem? I think it would be safer to do that instead of having people run to the back of the store. Last year people were falling and getting stepped on trying to make a dash for the eight Tvs they had. I would think that safety would be a higher priority. I wonder why they won't pass out the tickets?
I asked that once also and got the exact same answer. I have no clue why they won't do that, it makes no sense to me.
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Posted Sep 19, 2007 - 2:10 am
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Posted Sep 19, 2007 - 4:27 am
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Posted Sep 19, 2007 - 5:35 am
Wal Mart can't read anyones minds and if you want to get the ticket system at Wal Mart why dont you write or call them in Bentonville. Contact info is below.
http://www.walmartst...ate.do?catg=224
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Posted Sep 19, 2007 - 6:40 am
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Posted Sep 19, 2007 - 8:16 am
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Posted Sep 19, 2007 - 10:19 am

Midnight????? We always have to wait till 5am!
Midnite for supercenters. 5am for regular hourly Wal-Marts.
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Posted Sep 19, 2007 - 10:28 am
I think Best Buy is the only major store chain that does that. Dunno if they have some sort of exclusive rights to it or something.
haha, you're TOO funny!!! I'm SURE Best buy doesn't have exclusive rights to passing out pieces of paper! haha! i love it!!
sorry, i just found that funny.


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Posted Sep 19, 2007 - 10:44 am
haha, you're TOO funny!!! I'm SURE Best buy doesn't have exclusive rights to passing out pieces of paper! haha! i love it!!
sorry, i just found that funny.
Umm ... ::AHEM:: ... rights to using the ticket method, not to using paper.

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Posted Sep 19, 2007 - 6:22 pm
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Posted Sep 19, 2007 - 9:00 pm
BB is the only major company that does tickets and for the most part it works.
Wal Mart can't read anyones minds and if you want to get the ticket system at Wal Mart why dont you write or call them in Bentonville. Contact info is below.
http://www.walmartst...ate.do?catg=224
WEll I emailed them today so I am waiting for a response. I will let you know if I hear anything.
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Posted Sep 20, 2007 - 4:23 am
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Posted Sep 21, 2007 - 7:31 am
I dont think I like the ticket process, I like the idea of things in different places, that way everyone has a chance not just the first ones in line. I would rather choose which is more important to get and go after that and then try for the other things I want.
Our walmart gives out tickets for how many tv's they have but they dont give them out until the sale starts. Then you pay for it and drive around back to pick it up.
That's how our local Wal-Mart was last year before it became a supercenter. They give out maps an hour before the doors open to guide everyone to each doorbuster item located throughout the store (CS desk for desktop and big-screen LCD TV, table around the corner for digital camera and other item, etc). That limits individuals to one or two doorbusters and makes it so one person can't buy everything. One problem I noticed was the limit of items they could have. When we bought a laptop a few years back, folks were buying 3 or 4 laptops at a time. That peeved alot of people off and we barely got the last one. I think they're limiting doorbusters now to one unique item per individual.
This year is gonna be very interesting because that local WM where the wife works became a 24-hour supercenter earlier this year. This blitz-day is gonna be WAY different and folks might not be used to the new way of doing things. Let's hope things go smoothly, however I'm expecting chaos to ensue.

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Posted Sep 21, 2007 - 12:22 pm
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Posted Sep 21, 2007 - 5:10 pm
That's how our local Wal-Mart was last year before it became a supercenter. They give out maps an hour before the doors open to guide everyone to each doorbuster item located throughout the store (CS desk for desktop and big-screen LCD TV, table around the corner for digital camera and other item, etc). That limits individuals to one or two doorbusters and makes it so one person can't buy everything. One problem I noticed was the limit of items they could have. When we bought a laptop a few years back, folks were buying 3 or 4 laptops at a time. That peeved alot of people off and we barely got the last one. I think they're limiting doorbusters now to one unique item per individual.
This year is gonna be very interesting because that local WM where the wife works became a 24-hour supercenter earlier this year. This blitz-day is gonna be WAY different and folks might not be used to the new way of doing things. Let's hope things go smoothly, however I'm expecting chaos to ensue.
That happened to me a few years ago. I was trying to get my husband a Gameboy for an upcoming deployment and the lady right in front of me bought 3 which ended up being the last of the instock Gameboys. I was a little irritated since I had been in line for 3 hours at that point. She turned around and told everyone behind her that she had triplets at home and that they were a Christmas gift. Not sure if it were true but it was a rough morning that morning.
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Posted Sep 21, 2007 - 5:56 pm
Midnight????? We always have to wait till 5am!
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I like the ticket idea though. I got trampled for one of the TV's last year and I wasn't even wanting one! everyone about beat me up.![]()
I got in a few shots though!!
This is why I have avoided BF the last 3 or 4 years. I am very short, and I don't stand a chance against taller/larger people, and the news flashes on BF have me scared to death. I really don't want to get beat on. My oldest dd and I really want to go out this year, but we're 1/2 serious, 1/2 joking about taking some pepper spray and maybe padding ourselves with Charmin in case any big person tries to hurt us.

I think tickets would be great for Wal Mart, and it would definitely make me feel safer in going out.

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Posted Sep 21, 2007 - 7:34 pm




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Posted Sep 23, 2007 - 10:39 am
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Posted Sep 23, 2007 - 9:49 pm
I think the ticket idea is great, if it works!! My first year as a BF shopper, didn't go as expected!! We got up early, and got in line at BB. I never saw any of the associates handing out tickets (don't know if I was too far back or what) and didn't know that they even did that, until I got inside!! I ran back to the back, where the digital camera's were being sold, and was prompted to go back to the front of the store to get a ticket. So we ran back up front, and the associate told me that there weren't any to give out. So he walked back to the digital camera display, and the 2 associates argued over the ticket issue. In the mean time, I stood and looked at all of the camera's on the shelf just waiting to be passed out. They were all labeled with numbers, I'm assuming that would corrspond witht he tickets. Not one person had come back to get them!! Since the sales associates were distracted, I grabbed one, and went and checked out!! I looked at it after we got into the car, it was labeled #1!! I know, shame on me, but the way I see it... If you had the #1 ticket for that item, you should have already been back there to get it!! I learned my lesson, and will NEVER stand in line at BB again!!
Regardless if those people weren't back there to get THEIR ticketed item is irrelevant--they earned it, you did not. That's the whole point of standing in line for a ticket... Whether they were stuck behind other people, or whether they were shopping for other items, it was theirs...
Saying you will never stand in line at BB again---does that mean you'll sneak back and take someone else's ticketed item?


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Posted Sep 30, 2007 - 8:29 am
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Posted Sep 30, 2007 - 8:32 am
I think the reason most people wouldn't rush to get that ticketed item is because well, they have the ticket, so they can get other things and then go get that item. I know I would probably do the same thing. Why rush to get it when it should be there and I can get other stuff that's limited stock but no tickets were given out?I think the ticket idea is great, if it works!! My first year as a BF shopper, didn't go as expected!! We got up early, and got in line at BB. I never saw any of the associates handing out tickets (don't know if I was too far back or what) and didn't know that they even did that, until I got inside!! I ran back to the back, where the digital camera's were being sold, and was prompted to go back to the front of the store to get a ticket. So we ran back up front, and the associate told me that there weren't any to give out. So he walked back to the digital camera display, and the 2 associates argued over the ticket issue. In the mean time, I stood and looked at all of the camera's on the shelf just waiting to be passed out. They were all labeled with numbers, I'm assuming that would corrspond witht he tickets. Not one person had come back to get them!! Since the sales associates were distracted, I grabbed one, and went and checked out!! I looked at it after we got into the car, it was labeled #1!! I know, shame on me, but the way I see it... If you had the #1 ticket for that item, you should have already been back there to get it!! I learned my lesson, and will NEVER stand in line at BB again!!
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