Comments on: Wal-Mart workers spill the beans on iPhone launch

Workers at several Wal-Mart Stores around the country say they expect to start selling iPhones in their stores by the end of the month.

[JLBer]

I really wish Verizon didn't pass up on these. I'm not going to switch to AT&T even if it's $99, though. :(

[MCOjerry]

I thought AT&T was going to be a let down, but since getting my iPhone I am happy with the service. I used to have Verizon.

[MCOjerry]

Who cares about WalMart...they are a lousy store with shoppers that act like a pack of wild animals. Don't even get me started on their employees that have nothing but a box of rocks for brains.

I will be upset if Apple sells that same models at a lower price for ANYONE, doesn't matter that it's WalMart.

Personally, I think people should boycott WalMart.

[close5828]

::ding:: Elitist

[sandor_f]

not elitist. just anti-big corporations.
wal-mart, along with other major corporations, sets very poor examples in its treatment of the working class:

they lock their night shift in the building.
they actively fight unionization.
they do not provide health care opportunities to all their workers.

[FroZone]

sandor:
locking the doors to a building when the store closes is kinda normal.
unions are antiquated and should be done away with.
not all their workers want/need heath care through them.
sheesh.

[lexiws]

I think people who have poor attitudes towards the working class should stay away from stores offering discounted prices for people who may not be able to afford certain items at a higher cost.

they also offer employment to all walks of life and especially those willing to put up with others who are demeaning and rude to others they feel are below them. I am happy about the service being offered. I am not however, interested in the iphone due to the non eligibility of insurance for this product.

[wango2007]

"Four electronics department managers at Wal-Mart stores in Delaware, New Jersey and New York said Monday that they were already training employees to sell Apple iPhones..."

I don't understand this. Electronic department clerks at Wal-Mart get training? I didn't know their departments had clerks... or that they knew anything even when you could understand their broken English.

[Perry_Clease]

Maybe it will be similar to how they sell iPhones at Best Buy with special section set aside for activating the phone and setting up the service and all of that. Wal-Mart might have hired the from outside of their in house employees, got people from AT&T or cell stores.

[Vegaman_Dan]

How long before Walmart decides that Apple needs to provide the phones at a lower price? They have the power to force manufacturers to produce items at the price they want already. $2 isn't enough to make people go to Walmart for this item, but $50 off would.

[Perry_Clease]

People probably would not go to Wal-Mart just to purchase an iPhone. The buyer would probably already be Wal-Mart regulars.

[gggg sssss]

How is that a bad thing? Crap is just made in China anyway.

[MCOjerry]

@close5828, yeah, uh...no. I don't think so. I just hate WalMart. Tell me, when's the last time you shopped there as were checked out by someone that wasn't blabbing with their coworkers or couldn't string a sentence together if their life depended on it. Out of all of their employees, this describes about 97% of them.

90% of the shoppers are of the same caliber as the employees.

I feel sorry for the older employees that work there that can actually function properly in normal society and have intelligence...they have to deal with the other stupid fools that WalMart hires.

[BigBouncer]

::ding:: Elitist

[lexiws]

As a masters holding, college educated, and by the way, recently employed for the holidays,... by WAL-MART .......(due to the lay offs incurred by the mismanagement of our govenment, ) citizen, I am grateful for any opportunities that Wal-Mart would offer to someone.
The people who work there are just that .........people and should be treated as such. It is the condescending attitude that perpetrates the stereotype. No job is below someone.
It us usually customers who continually discuss their lives while also discussing their purchases and many people like to be talked to and feel as though they are in a Neighborhood store, not a communist library.

The whole point of this was to be that Wal-Mart will be offering an I-phone for a bit lower price and bringing more technology to the masses. Have a happy new year and may Karma never catch up with you. If it should, you may find yourself applying at a Dollar store of some sort I guess since it is the Wal-Mart that you have decided to boycott. Or better yet, you may find yourself the owner of a business where you are unable to afford to offer insurance to your employees, you will only be able to pay them minimum wage and you will find out exactly why it is .......that the service is what it is...........and then you will be the brunt of everyone's horrible ridicule. But let's hope not. Merry New Year