Walmart has reloading components I notice. This is the local one not sure if your local Wally world has any thing yet. There was powder,dies bullets and primers. Not a big selection, but they have it.

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Not at our local Wallyworld yet. I am lucky to have a Basspro and six or seven other sports store that carry reloading supplies locally.

Oh by the way, was your father a doctor?

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Never have had it here either, and I'll believe it when I see it!

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Our Wal-Mart has a few rifles and some ammo. Closest they've had for reloading stuff is some blackpowder items. Should be a good market up here for them but like Wrench man said, "I'll believe when I see it"

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So does the local WalMart here in Craig. Prices are pretty good but the selection is raher puny, but they will order anything you want. At least that's what the one clerk said.

There's also a new "big name" sporting goods store opeming here. Hellman's or Hetterman's or something like that? S'posed to be big in the southeast. 10-12 new jobs being created. I'll have to check them out.

RJ

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Our Walmart doesn't carry any reloading components.....Powder, bullets, primer, or brass..NOTHING! The reason I am told is that not that many people reload !!!! (?) Nearest place from my home is some 35 miles away.

A new reloading specialty shop just opened up on the south side of Indianapolis and it's just 2 minutes out of the way, on my drive home. His prices are very competitive and he's a real reloader (his primary business is custom reloading) so I know he will understand the type of inventory to carry. I'm really excited to have a dedicated reloading shop in the area again.

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What's the name of the place and does he have a website do you know ?

Sounds great, Jason! Sure wish someone would open such a store here where I am located. I find it very strange there is not one single gun store, other than Walmart, in my town. I guess there is not enough "people population" as the population of the whole County I live in is 22,000, majority live in the Southern part of the County.

I would rather pay extra than to support walmart !! I'll shop local first ...to me walmart is not local. They put local businesses out of business

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I try to buy from local mom and pop places first. If the price is within reason I'll pay the extra.

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I don't know if I'm allowed to say the name, but I'm not affiliated with him in any way. It's called ProFire Arms and they're just off Kentucky Avenue on the south side of Indy.

Ditto! It's gotten to where you can't hardly buy some things without going to one of the huge warehouse stores, and there's a part of me that just hates it. I will gladly pay a little extra to avoid walking half a mile around a giant loop AND for the pleasure of actually getting service from a person who is knowledgeable where guns and reloading are concerned!

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Glad you all have various options for components and guns. Wal-Mart near where I lived in college had reloading supplies. That was long ago, though.

What I like about the non-national-chain stores is that they at least have the _chance_ to carry something other than what the corporate nobs at Cabelarehoupro have deemed 'adequate' for us to choose from. If I wanted to pick from 375 different brands of 308 bolt gun, so long as they're all black-on-black composite or ARs, then maybe I'd like those stores more.

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Guess it matters where you live, they provide lots of local jobs here that we wouldn't have other wise. They're prices are half of what "local" businesses charge which gives more "locals" money to spend on something else. Some folks just don't like healthy competition I guess.

It's great that Wal-Mart came to your area and brought jobs (rather than simply taking them from existing businesses)!

The long-term changes that _can_ occur when one goes from having many local businesses all over the place to 1 or 2 national chains all over the place is that choice evaporates. The national chains carry what they carry, so that's what you get, and going to the next town doesn't change that. Also, Wal-Mart in particular is at least infamous for going to suppliers/manufacturers and dictating price reductions if they want to stay in the store. That's great for the consumer because prices go down. The broader effect can be that those same consumers either lose their jobs or take a pay cut because the manufacturer for whom they work has to make the item less expensively now. Many times it also removes quality, or at least refinement, from the product as well.

This is all just kind of dollars and cents, or perhaps long-term vs. short-term, and it doesn't _necessarily_ matter where the 'normal' balance is, but the change from one level to the other, especially when it isn't happening to everyone everywhere all at once, can be _very_ difficult at times.

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