Even In Death, You Can Still Shop At Walmart
Walmart now provides for their customers from cradle to grave. Quite literally—since you can not only purchase cribs there, you can now order caskets and funerary urns from the mega-retailer's Web site.
The caskets and urns are made in the USA by Star Legacy Funeral Network, Inc., which also supplies coffins to Overstock.com and Costco. (Funeral homes are required by law to let families supply their own caskets or urns.) They are delivered via FedEx within 48 hours of ordering, and can be delivered directly to the funeral home.
Or, like my family's former pastor, you can buy your coffin early, store it in your home, and freak out your neighbors when you move.
Walmart's caskets cost between $1,000 and $3,100. They are not returnable.
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I'd be worried about all the chemicals in it. You wouldn't want whoever is using it to get sick or lead poisoning.
Also, will the urns hold animal ashes?
Ugh, but have you ever seen what kind of corpses shop in Walmart?? I'll stick to Costco, where the rest of high society corpses shop for their coffins, thank you very much.
@Nick1693: That is just way to funny. However this is kind of creepy ordering your place of housing after you die.
Finally I can buy my coffin, a bell and a string all at the same place !
Chinese lead, from cradle to grave!
I would hate to be the fedex guy delivering these things.
the website states they start at $895.00 what a bargain! AND they are made in the USA!
No customer product reviews?
CostCo did it!
I saw this in the paper this morning and pointed it out to my mother-in-law. Since she loves shopping at Wal-Mart, I told her to forget about cremation, we'll just bury you.
I can picture the hushed conversation at her funeral now...
My brother-in-law: Why is the casket all scratched and dented?
Quake 'n' Shake: It was a floor model we picked up on clearance. What the hell do you want from me?
For the record, my mother-in-law laughed.
I wonder if they will mark 'em down on Black Friday or Cyber Monday? Would make a hell of an ad.
God, shipping on that thing must be killer.
This is amazing! Incredible! Worthy of a front-page story in the New York Times! Wal-Mart is SELLING SOMETHING MADE IN AMERICA!!
@GitEmSteveDave_ThatChickRockingKicks: Damn things are probably so screwed up that they reanimate corpses.
I'm having trouble locating the caskets at Walmart.com. Are they in the "Outdoor Living" section, "Health and Beauty," "Gifts and Celebration," "Personal Care," or "Storage and Organization?"
My wife and I noticed last week that Costco is also selling coffins - needless to say, it was "weird" to see the sample coffin on our way to meet the receipt-checker-guy.
Not returnable? Then what am I supposed to do when I'm done with it?
Walter Sobchak: GOD DAMN IT! Look, just because we're bereaved, that doesn't make us saps!
Pfft. Cradle-to-grave coverage is nothing. They need to target the sperm-to-worm market.
"(Funeral homes are required by law to let families supply their own caskets or urns.)"
This was only recently made law in TN as coffin sales were formerly only allowed to be by licensed funeral directors. As always, a monopoly generated higher prices, so people fought and got the law overturned. Even in the Nashville area there are a couple of lower end strip malls with retail sales coffin showrooms in them...
@econobiker: Are you sure? I remember this was passed as a FEDERAL law at least 5 years ago. Unless TN is saying they aren't part of the USA.
@ArcanaJ: Put the rest of the Halloween decorations away, leave the casket on the lawn until Christmas and make a creche for Zombie Jesus.
A friend of mine basically went "ew who'd want to be buried in a Wal-mart coffin," So just for the record, there are more depressing burial methods. I went to a funeral home as a field trip in a class, and the two cheapest options were a) a glorified 6x2x2 cardboard box with lid or b) sanded-but-unfinished planks.
@giggitygoo: I was thinking the same thing.. Costco has been doing this forever. You can even order and pay (or is it pay a very large deposit) now, and then when you croak, your family just has to let them know, and the casket will be there in like 1 day.
Will they still check my receipt?