Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #3297
12353 Fm 1960 West


That one is probably just outside your beaten path, the only reason I got lucky.

That was the 1st bulk pack I've seen at a WM since I got amazingly, incredibly, outstandingly lucky and scored 2 bulk packs of motors at the WM on Westheimer@Dunvale for $11 each, about a year ago. And trust me, after that I have been looking.

There's not much old-formula Krylon left east of Hwy 6 either.

Hobby Lobby stores routinely do not reprice items on the shelf; so when a price increase lands, it can result in inconsistent pricing. For quite a while, 1/2A3-2T engines were still available at the $5.99 price point in Quincy, IL... until they ran out.

Over in the party section, the crepe paper I buy to use as wadding was $0.93 a year ago, but it's now $1.43 (still a bargain compared to a similar sized pack of Estes flame resistant toilet paper). On the shelf there are packs with one price, and packs with the other...

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NAR # 115523
Once upon a better day... SAM #0076
My site: http://rocketry.gonnerman.org

The prices for motors at WalMart is hit and miss. My local WM in NJ is still $4.97, but, in South carolina the prices have been raised to $6.97. They also added the Astrovision as well to their other offering of three starter sets. Their motor offerings in awfull.

I have two Walmarts in Albany: 1 has the motors priced at $4.97, an the other at $6.97. This is either end of the city!!

Phred

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Just some guy.....

GET GOONY!!

All of the walmarts in Buffalo/Niagara Falls that I've been to (at least 4) have $4.97 motors. Of course they're all C6-7 or C6-5 which I have plenty of... Target's motors are at $4.79 with about the same selection...

Two bulk packs for only $11 each?! Wow, what a steal! The lowest I've been able to find
(at the I-10/Fry Road Wal-Mart) several years ago I saw a bulk pack with that familiar
red/white price sticker on it, and it was priced $18. I had only $20 left in my wallet, and
bought it anyway!

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Dave, NAR # 21853 SR.

Yeah that was the score of a lifetime basically. They were on the shelf with all the other motors with no price tag on them, nothing. So I put one in the cart, thinking I'd ask what the price was when I checked out, and continued shopping until I ran across one of those scanners in the aisle. There I pulled it out of the cart and scanned it. The scanner sat there thinking for a second and up popped $11 on the screen.

So I did it again. And the scanner did it again.

After the heart palpitations stopped, I barrelled back over to the toy section like a madman. I think I almost ran over 3 slower shoppers along the way. Scoop, into the cart went the 2nd bulk pack.

Yup 48 motors for $22 is a sweet deal anyway you cut it. I thought about buying a lottery ticket afterwards but figured I'd used up all my luck that day.

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That comes out to 46 cents per motor, the kind of prices we use to buy them for back in
the 1960's and early 1970's.....

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Dave, NAR # 21853 SR.

I had to go check the local Knightdale Wal-Mart after following this thread. They have C6-7's, C6-3's, and A10-3T's with no pricing. I took a few to the cashier and the scanned price is still $4.97. We have a small Wal-Mart, but there is the largest selection of Estes kits and planes than I have seen in years. I did not see any Semroc kits in stock there.

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Carl McLawhorn
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semroc.com

Carl,

Would you really want to sell through Wal-mart? The first thing they'd suggest is that you make your organization as lean as possible by 'off-shoring' your production - probably to China.