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Re: They don't sell model cars/trucks at Walmart. Bad sign for future truck builders
1) i'm not really happy selection-wise and atmosphere-wise with walmart, but happy with their pricing. i think target is a little better. Also, look into target's debit card---they offer 5% off anything in the whole store. k-mart WAS (is?) better than walmart in my opinion.
2) i was ignorant enough to try to buy something else from wm, but later realized they don't carry it. i think you can guess............... |
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Re: They don't sell model cars/trucks at Walmart. Bad sign for future truck builders
Walmart has a limited toy department that carries only the top selling items that take as little space as possible that they can get for the lowest bulk wholesale. They don't carry many many toys that are big sellers at Toys R Us. Models are a hobby,not a toy. Walmart also dumped their crafts section a few years ago. They are ever changing what they carry to maximize floor space and I'd hate to see what they spend on just staffing and studying that. I guess I just don't use Walmart to gauge what's what. They are just a biggass store and there's a whole world outside of Walmart. There are actually a lot of people who won't even go there...and somehow they survive!
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Re: They don't sell model cars/trucks at Walmart. Bad sign for future truck builders
I bet virtual model building as a smart phone app would sell well! If anyone reading this steals my idea and makes millions I want a royalty!
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Re: They don't sell model cars/trucks at Walmart. Bad sign for future truck builders
Personally I'm happy to say that I really don't know what Walmart sells or not. When I was a kid our grocery store sold models.
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Re: They don't sell model cars/trucks at Walmart. Bad sign for future truck builders
I try to shop anywhere but Walmart! They have done a very good job of killing Main Street in our area. I wanted to buy a piece of jewelry fro my wife for Christmas,NO Jewelry stores are open in our County seat-I'm going to drive to Des Moines to a REAL Jewelry Store.
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Re: They don't sell model cars/trucks at Walmart. Bad sign for future truck builders
You can't lay all the blame on Walmart. They offer cheap shvt and people like to buy cheap shvt.
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Re: They don't sell model cars/trucks at Walmart. Bad sign for future truck builders
I never get that mentality. Not yours, but the buy at WalMart its cheap one.. Ok so its cheap, thats because its crap.. you will have to replace it 40x over in the time it takes to wear out one better made item. The food is a joke also. The cheap items have less in them etc than other stores. The ones that are the same cost more per oz etc. It surely is cheaper... you just get less and stuff that falls apart. Why not just shop at the dollar tree and be done with it.
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a good 5 or so years back all stores here stopped carrying models and supplies, now only the few hobby stores still around sell them, but ebay is your own super store for that stuff.
like the margins got so thin, all the stores moved them out for other products to take that space. |
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67chevyredneck is on something. why build something with your hands when there are ipads and iphones for games. i use to love model. maybe that is why i am the way i am today
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Re: They don't sell model cars/trucks at Walmart. Bad sign for future truck builders
Another thing to consider is that kids today aren't interested in models.
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Re: They don't sell model cars/trucks at Walmart. Bad sign for future truck builders
Everyone on this board should find a kid, take them to their local Hobby Shop (or wherever sells models in your town), buy a model and building supplies, and take that kid home and help them build that model to show them having a hobby is about. I would bet a lot of them would be asking question about our trucks and hot rods in general after that.
Support your local Hobby Shop and while you're at it, Support your local Speed Shop. We don't want either to disappear.
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Re: They don't sell model cars/trucks at Walmart. Bad sign for future truck builders
I have never been into models. Why build something you can't play with or drive? I love building "real" cars however, so lack of modeling has never diminished my interest in automobiles. I loved Hotwheels and matchbox cars growing up cause you could play with them, race them and crash them...and they didn't fall apart.
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Re: They don't sell model cars/trucks at Walmart. Bad sign for future truck builders
I loved building models when I was a kid. They taught me the different parts of a vehicle by name and gave me a general understanding of how vehicles were assembled. That gave me the confidence to take on working on real cars. My first car was old and not running when I got it and I got it on the road by myself and ended up restoring/modifying it over time. Models also taught me patience and gave me better skill with intricate hand to eye coordination. I also had toy vehicles to play with as well as building and riding bikes.
I have taken kids and gotten them into building models before,but none lately. Both my sons I got into models and both still do it some and are into cars & trucks. If interest by younger people is being threatened,it's because they aren't being exposed by older people,not because Walmart doesn't sell models.
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I didn't have TV growing up, but my parents would buy me a model ever so often to build. I don't think I would have had the interest in cars without the background doing models. Well, maybe I would have. I learned to drive in a 69 GMC! ![]()
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That is an awful lot of "mights". I might fall and break my leg tomorrow, I might not. Some might have mechanical skills, some might not. Models might make a difference, they might not (as in my case). I see this as pointless worrying. While I did not take an interest in building models, I do see SpecialK's perspective as being very reasonable and valid, and absent of blinders. Walmart is the largest retailer on the planet, and they will stock their shelves with whatever product sells best. It makes no sense for them to have an aisle of models when Michaels and other mom and pop hobby shops carry tons of them. I look at it as something you CAN'T buy at Walmart...and most would agree that is a good thing.
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III. No pissing matches. Its fine to disagree, but once a thread has run its course, and degenerated into little more than an insult fest, it will be locked. While this will require a judgment call by the Administrators & Moderators. The members of this site can keep our moderating to a minimum by exercising a little discretion and self- control.
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