Wal-Mart iPhone Sales Plan Confirmed
Credit: MacRumors.com
Wal-Mart employees have confirmed the retailer will begin selling the iPhone before the end of December, however talk of a $99 Apple handset remain mostly in the rumor stage.
Although neither the giant discount retail nor the exclusive carrier AT&T have officially disclosed their plans, both Bloomberg and the Mercury News quote retailers confirming the iPhone is set to be sold by Wal-Mart after Christmas.
Citing unnamed employees at five California Wal-Marts, Bloomberg Monday reported workers are being trained to sell the 8GB and 16GB iPhones. Friday, the Mercury News reported other California Wal-Mart managers were being trained to offer the iPhones.
Only a Wal-Mart manager in Milpitas, Calif. said AT&T had told employees they would receive 4GB iPhones.
After reporting surfaced that Wal-Mart would sell iPhones Dec. 28, Web Site Boy Genius Report passed on unconfirmed talk the retailer might offer a $99 model, reviving the 4GB iPhone to attract shoppers hit by the rough economy.
However, those initial reports were being downplayed Monday as Mac Rumors offered a photo of Wal-Mart training material which included an 8GB iPhone for $197.
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Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
