“Walmart has begun selling the Apple Watch Sport and accessories through its online store for U.S. customers,” Joe Rossignol reports for MacRumors. “The discount retailer is currently only carrying 38mm and 42mm Sport models in Silver or Space Gray for $349 to $399 alongside the Apple Watch Sport Band and Apple Watch Magnetic Charging Cable.”
“Walmart joins a growing number of Apple Watch resellers carrying the wrist-worn device in the U.S. since its April launch, including Best Buy, B&H Photo, Maxfield, Sprint, Target, T-Mobile and dozens of other retailers nationwide,” Rossignol reports.
“The device is not yet available in Walmart stores,” Rossignol reports, “but in-store pickup is available for online orders.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Apple Watch point of purchase continue to proliferate!
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The Apple Watch has been on my wrist daily for 5 months. It handles message notifications and activity tracking superbly. It may be Apple’s best and most polished first-gen product this century. The sky is the limit with future generations and as people see through the negative noise.
It’s ironic for Apple’s Angela Ahrendts propping more luxury brand into Apple Store only to find most Apple device in Walmart. Something is obviously wrong the way Apple is wasting money.
My thoughts exactly. I still don’t know what Ms Ahrendts is bringing to the table here. She doesn’t fit the Apple culture, doesn’t understand Apple customers, hasn’t made a single measurable difference and has cost a lot of money. The only good thing I can say about her is that she hasn’t seriously messed things up . . . yet.
Nobody ever knew what Ron Johnson did while he was there. It wasn’t until he left and and Browett replaced him that everyone started noticing rapid deterioration of quality of experience at the Apple stores.
Ahrendts singlehandedly turned that around. If she never did anything else, she was well worth the money.
Apple has got to reduce inventory and a lot of people shop at Walmart. Now Cletus can sport the same Apple Watch as the hoity toity parading down Rodeo Drive.
Several years ago, I finally realized that I was always in a bad mood after each visit to my local Walmart… a dirty, crowded store with unpleasant and/or rude customers and employees. Easy fix… I quit going there. No plans to return, even to pick up online orders.
Apple should make carrying the Apple Watch contingent on the selling retailer implementing Apple Pay on their POS systems.
Apparently Apple is more interested in dumping inventory than bullying people into using Apple Pay.
So, hey, Walmart. Maybe it’s time to enable Apple Pay at your stores.
Aimed for exclusive stores in Paris France, have to settle for Wallmart USA.
So Apple decides to keep doing business with direct competitors. First it was Google and Samsung and now it is Walmart, which just rolled out WalPay. What does Apple do, hand them the blueprints to copy everything Apple does?
It’s a shame to see Apple’s current management chase after profits so indiscriminately. If you have to use outside support for chip production, software, or distribution, could Apple at least have them sign a no-direct-compete clause in their contracts????
Also, while Walmart can be said to be efficient, they have no taste. How ironic that Cook would make Apple stores the site of clueless “geniuses” who sell mostly iOS accessories, and also at Walmart, where there isn’t an intelligent worker to sell you anything.
Is there a reason Cook keeps charging high prices while not delivering the best possible customer experience ???
It’s simple, they watch sales are not healthy and they need to go to the biggest retail giant to help move product.
If Apple could, they would sell it at McDonald’s, BK, KFC, Taco Bell as well as every AM PM gas station.
That may be next, actually.