This is truly funny...and sadly true. Where else can you get your meds, your contact lenses, your haircut, your groceries and...AND do your banking...all without ever leaving the store? It's like a mini-Disneyworld. Sort of creepy but oddly addictive at the same time.

 

You're right! I used to love just "people watching" at Wal-Mart. It makes you feel really GOOD about yourself if you do that. LOL
 

Firsties--

Good Lord, what will they come up with next

Happy Holloweenie
 

I'm waiting for the "Wal-Mart Wedding Chapel and Quickie Divorce Service".
 

well I was firsties lol, she slipped in seconds before me
 

I wonder if you can put them on layaway?  lol  That is just messed up!

 

omg! Layaway...LMAO/LOL!!!!

 

No, they did away with that. Can you imagine trying to tote that thing home, though? LOL
 

I'm still in the process of suing Wal*Mart so I dont even shop there. It doesnt suprise me that they would go so low to sell caskets and urns.

 

I personally think caskets are a total waste of money.  Death is a big money business and none of it is logical.  It doesn't surprise me at all that WalMart wants a piece of that pie.

When I die my kids can burn me in the back yard and let the wind take me away, or put me out on the curb for garbage pick up. 



 

My mom always told us when we were younger if she died to "remember trash goes out on Friday."  It does seem a little silly to pay all that money just to be dead!
 

I don't see anything wrong with Wal-Mart, or anyone else, offering a lower price for products that every person will need one day?  The funeral homes, until now, have pretty much had a monopoly on caskets and charge WAY more than they should for them because they know people have to have one, or an urn.  I personally know of a family who recently lost a loved one.  The only thing they could afford was a pine box.  They paid $1,100 for that!?!  I also have a good friend whose wife passed away about 7 years ago.  He offered to "make" his wife's casket because he couldn't afford one.  He was told it wouldn't meet the states requirements.  So he and his kids bought one of those cheap pine boxes like you see in an old horror flick.  BUT, he made the headstone himself.   If it ever stops raining around here long enough for me to trek through the cemetery I will get a pic of that and send you.  It is all he could afford and thanfully there were no restrictions at the cemetery which prohibited him from making his own.  Who knows, maybe Wal-Mart will add headstones next?

I popped to the Wal-Mart site and took a quick peek at those caskets and urns.  My aunt who passed in May had a bronze casket that looks almost identical to the one on their site.  Wal-Mart price is $2,899.00.  The price my uncle paid was $7,200.00.  Obviously there would have been some differences, but most likely it was in the brand name AND the fact that you couldn't buy them anywhere else for less money.  They have a rose colored urn for $215.00  My mom passed in May, one week after her twin sister (the one mentioned above).  Her urn was like that Rose Supreme on the Wal-Mart site except hers was green in color.  The price of her urn:  $800.00.  That good ole monopoly again. 

As for Sam Walton, I think he would like this idea.  I met him when we got our first Wal-Mart store here.  I was a Customer Service Manager and he came to our store for the Grand Opening.  He was all about offering a good product at a good price that was affordable to most folks.  Trust me when I say that the prices they are offering on caskets and urns is incredibly cost saving compared to what a funeral home is going to charge you. 

Kudos to Wal-Mart on this one.  Leave some of that money in the hands of those left behind instead of in the hands of funeral homes who overcharge and take advantage of people at their weakest and most vulnerable time.

 

LMAO, i heard about this+was giggling. i got them topped, cuz the army will pay to have your body to blow up in tests+stuff. in your face, small mart!

love+hugs+happy hallowe'en ♥
xoxo
lena/wicked-wing :P

 

1000 bucks for a casket....it's a good deal....I just am not sure how well this is going to go over with the funeral home...they may say they don't except 3rd party coffins......with this economy...we may have to go back to living room "Wakes"...and back yard burials...