Report: Wal-Mart To Sell iPhones This Holiday Season
8:35 am, October 13th, 2008, Ed Sutherland
Giant discount chain Wal-Mart in November may become the second retailer to sell Apple’s iPhone, a report said Monday.
Wal-Mart, which already sells a huge number of iPods, could announce a deal Nov. 15, just two weeks before the retail sector’s “Black Monday,” according to the Boy Genius Report website.
In September, electronics retailer Best Buy began selling iPhones, making it the first third-party retailer to offer the Apple handset.
Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney told Cult of Mac if the report is true, the addition of Wal-Mart with its 3,500 stores, would be a good move.
“Problem is that Wal-Mart shoppers are on budgets and the iPhone is expensive for them both in device cost and service,” Dulaney wrote in an e-mail.
Posted by Ed Sutherland in Apple, News, iPhone | Comment on this article
This will only be good once the iPhone is no longer tethered with just AT&T service…
so the check out people at WalMart are supposed to set up the wireless service and do credit checks etc…thats kinda crazy to expect that to go well…when the AT&T personnel have enough trouble getting the deed done
NOW4REAL954, on October 13th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Nothing says ‘hip’ like Wal Mart.
Matt, on October 13th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
It would have been nice for me, I had to drive 180 miles (round trip) to my closest AT&T store to order it and a second trip to pick it up.
Shane, on October 14th, 2008 at 5:34 am
you wouldn’t do it at the main checkout. they would have to set up something in electronics to handle the set up. which is why I am not going to run with this notion myself. I’ll wait and see what happens on Nov 15th.
charlituna, on October 14th, 2008 at 9:28 am