I can't think of a more depressing place to buy my iPhone...

@meechybee: I can't think of a more depressing place.

what an ugly and out of place shade of blue

@homerjay wants Boston Legal back!: KMart, Sears, Circuit City come to mind...

"Made
in the really, really poor part of
China"

They probably had to scrawl it on there themselves.

um, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't things that are made specifically for walmart, are they made even crappier? So when they break or quit working will Apple replace or fix them?

@boxjockey68: There will be extra ladybugs inside these apple products, you can be assured of that.

@meechybee:
Why? Don't want to buy formula and fertilizer with your iphone?

you would think that the typical person buying an iPhone wouldn't want to be seen in a Walmart...

(that is not to say that Walmart doesn't occasionally have some really good deals on every day stuff that even rich yuppies will appreciate)

@kepler11: So your toilet paper bought from Target is so much better and socially acceptable than toilet paper bought at WalMart?

@kepler11: Maybe two years ago...the iphone is just another gadget now. Once something hits the maturity stage, you'd be dumb not to market it through Walmart for the volume.

@kepler11:

Well, hipsters love irony. So Walmart is an appropriate place for them to buy iphones and ipods.

I think most of the gadget sites are reporting that the iphone will sell for $2 or $3 less than what you'd pay at the Apple store or ATT store. They're also reporting that all the Walmart stores will get a very small allocation. Something like less than a dozen at launch.

So yeah.. nothing to see here, move along.

Breaking News: Walmart carries popular product!

With the new iPhone rapidly gaining popularity among the ghetto-population of the USA, selling them at Wal-Mart appears to be a great way to get this product to its audience. Too bad for all of those who bought the iPhone thinking it was a premium product.

@eelmonger: gasp!

@Ingram81: Hm... MAYBE CC, but I still don't think they're any match.
At least CC is still relatively clean.

@Jonbo298: Oh god, my indie cred! What am I going to do now that the proles can buy the iPhone?

@panzerschreck1: I kind of like that shade of blue

Trying to come up with an Apple/Walmart/Genius Bar joke...I'll spare you.

This time.

"I can't think of a more depressing place to buy my iPhone..."

Well get used to it, because when all you comedians are done laughing about the CC closings and now even Best Buy beginning to downsize, Walmart's going to be the only place in town for most of us to buy our electronics.

And won't that be a wonderful day.

@FLConsumer: Oh, the humanity. Just make sure you hang onto your Apple Store receipt so that you can prove to people that you're not "ghetto."

@310Drew: What do you mean? It's just in time for the 1st day of Hanukkah on Sunday!

@noone1569: No I prefer to drive to 3 different stores just because I can. After all having multiple products you are looking for in one store is such an inconvenience.

@FLConsumer: Yeah, shockingly enough, buying a newly-introduced, expensive product does NOT guarantee any sort of individuality in the owner. I would have expected that Apple, purveyors of cutting-edge design, would continue to keep the price high. And if that failed to delineate the cool from the uncool, I'd expect them to start discriminating against customers of certain socioeconomic stations in life, including (but not limited) to race, income, marital status, and whether or not they drive a VW.

:D

I hate when they make covers for the security scanner. Are you really hiding it? Are people looking at it while the hunt for their receipt? Stop it already. /bitterness

@Ingram81: Agree. The local K-Marts are truly depressing. Dirty, poorly stocked, empty, post apocalyptic.

@NIFOC-GitEmSteveDave loves->★: At least it's covered in advertising: the sincerest form of camouflage. I'd be suspicious and bitter if it just said "We Trust You - Love, WalMart"

I would buy one if I did not have to get the data plan.

@Ben_Q2:

get an I-pod Touch

@kepler11: You are totally right, I HATE having to mix with the plebes when I want to get my overpriced gadgets. Usually I have my man servant do it.

I was in a wal-mart last night and they had flyers out about it.

@KyleOrton: I go armed to KMart. With a plasma rifle. Never know when a T800 Terminator will come after you.

@homerjay wants Boston Legal back!: I agree with your CC statement. The reason they are relatively clean is because there is never anyone there.

@FLConsumer: i don't get this. the cost-of-ownership is soooooooooooo high.

@SMSDHubbard: Wow, you must be pretty popular.

@kepler11: As long as it can be ordered online and shipped in one of those discrete porn shipping boxes, then they'll be just fine buying it from WalMart.

@The Name's Ash78, Housewares: huh? Are you commenting on the picture or the phone itself?

@OttoHelios: I think we'll be just fine. I don't know anybody hiding under their desks.

@AcceleratedDragon:

I just want the phone part.

I never walk into a Wal-Mart or Sam's Club. It's anti-American, the "company store" for this nation, and bad for workers.

Call me what you will, but I'll support local - even if it does cost more.

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Yeah, I know what you mean. Sometimes in cases of emergency I still have to go to the 24/7 walmart to get things.. I did an article on walmart here here. http://www.iphonespies.com/apple-news/walmart-raffles-iphone-3g/ Thanks if you can help support our blog.

@meechybee:

This is probably the reason why AT&T re-enabled activation at home. Run in, throw your money on the counter, take your boxed iPhone and run the hell out of the store. Then activate at home on your iMac listening to your iPod and sipping iScotch.

@Elcheecho: Total cost of ownership, yes... but ghetto people only care about how much they must pay today. You don't find the rent-to-own places in the better parts of town for a reason.

@panzerschreck1: That's the future of the iPhone. It's just like the RAZR. Used to be smart as a monkey, now it's dumb as a chimp.

@OttoHelios: When Wal-Mart starts carrying professional/industrial-grade electronics, then I might, key word: might, just consider shopping there for electronics. Until then they can rot in hell with Best Buy and Circuit City for the crap they pawn off on consumers.

Pro gear is expensive up-front but worth every penny. You only buy it once.

Just thought about this one -- will they make you show your receipt at the door to prove you own your iphone?

Wow. Mix the Walmart Blue Vest attitude with the Black Tee shirt attitude and I'll stay with my Motorola Brick Phone.