“Back in June we broke the news that Apple would be mixing things up a bit by moving away from its prior iPhone distribution model and getting a couple of nation-wide retailers in on the action. A little more than two months later, Best Buy indeed began carrying the iPhone 3G as we reported,” Zach Epstein reports for The BoyGenius Report.
“The other retailer we mentioned however, Radio Shack, did not. We’re not sure if the Apple and the Shack hit a wall during negotiations or if we still may see the iPhone 3G pop up there but in the meantime, it looks like another major retailer has swooped down and stolen Radio Shack’s thunder,” Epstein reports.
“One of our ninjas has it on good authority that Walmart will begin selling the iPhone 3G next month – on November 15th to be exact. If Walmart is indeed getting the iPhone 3G, the timing makes sense with Black Friday coming just under two weeks later,” Epstein reports.
Full article here.
[Attribution: Macworld UK. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Note: Wal-Mart currently carries Apple’s full line of iPods.
Why write a fresh MDN take, when this MDN classic from last year could have been used:
“That said, Wal-Mart and Apple seems like the perfect “left side of the bell curve” marriage. Mobile phones sold to people who don’t know what they’re buying by people who don’t know what they’re selling. Mouthbreathers rejoice!”
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(For convenience, company name and type of item updated by me to reflect the current partnering.)
Wal-Mart did not kill mom and pop outlets…
The people that shop at Wal-Mart instead of the mom and pop outlets are the ones that killed them.
I recently saw a Dan Rather special that followed this lady around after she had her job outsourced to China.
The lady was complaining that the chinese did things cheaper and that is why she didn’t have a job.
Then, she goes to Wal-Mart to buy stuff that, as it turns out was made in China (the documentary was as well tracking the origins of products that end up in Wal-Mart’s shelves).
So guess what, she wants to buy at Wal-Mart because its cheaper, but she doesn’t want to lose her job or get paid lower wages than the chinese in order to support her addiction to cheaper products.
If you shop at Wal-Mart (and any other retailer whose mantra is “we are the cheapest ones”) then you are to blame.
You ALWAYS have a choice.
We have a Wal-Mart, but we don’t have AT&T;, so I am still SOL.
Funny thing is, the iPhone won’t be any cheaper at Wal-Mart, so you won’t loose anything by buying it somewhere else.
Walmart’s mission statement:
“Lower the world’s cost of living.”
“The people that shop at Wal-Mart instead of the mom and pop outlets are the ones that killed them.”
Absolutely right. Wal-Mart’s only crime is to be delivering goods more efficiently resulting in lower prices.
Those who wanted the Mom and Pop stores to survive were free to organize the community to shop there instead of the local Wal-Mart.
But the communities voted with their wallets and chose an extra chicken in the pot every week and new shoes for the kids over subsidizing Mom and Pop’s leeching on the community by selling overpriced products.
As someone noted, through low prices and the effective income boost that gives every Wal-Mart shopper, Wal-Mart has done more to eliminate poverty and raise effective wages for Americans than any union ever has.