iPhone and iPad Coming to Sam's Club [Updated]
A timeframe was not provided for when the devices would hit the warehouse club. Sam's Club said it is attempting to increase the quality in its consumer electronic categories, as well as its fresh food and health and wellness divisions.
Sam's Club is membership-only warehouse chain of approximately 600 stores in the United States, competing against the likes of Costco and BJ's Wholesale Club. The three major warehouse clubs have long offered iPods in their stores at a slight discount from Apple's retail prices, but today's announcement marks the first time one of the chains has landed the iPhone and iPad. Pricing for the devices has yet to be announced.The news comes just as Wal-Mart is rolling out sales of the iPad in many of its retail stores, following recent retail expansion to all Best Buy Stores, as well as Target and Amazon, as Apple's constrained supplies have begun to ease.
Update: AppleInsider is reporting that Target is also planning to sell the iPhone as part of its partnership with Radio Shack to deploy mobile phone centers in its stores.
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next they will be selling them out of vending machines in laundromats.
sounds great!
Everywhere people turn, they will see iPhones and iPads.
slow down there cowboy
next they will be selling them out of vending machines in laundromats.
This should satisfy all the Walmart & Target haters . . . by definition, Sam's Club is a Club. Members only. You have to PAY to get in. There you have it, your uppity Apple exclusivity remains in tact.
Do you have to be so whiny? Really? Why is it ok for people like you to hate others, but they can't dislike a store?
why not. it is a consumer electronic that is good to go out of the box before you get home.
as long as you have a laptop and it is in the box with the iPad/iPhone:
They do in airports.
Do you have to be so whiny? Really? Why is it ok for people like you to hate others, but they can't dislike a store?
What makes my comment-hate filled, but all the other comments about WalMart are only "dislike-filled?"
Somehow, I doubt those comments are aimed at the building. Ultimately, the company and the store are people. It seems the biggest distain is aimed at those customers who frequent WalMart. I am a WalMart customer, by the way. I am well-groomed, have a full time job and a masters degree, and drive a car kept in good repair. I have three Apple computers, an iphone, an ipad, and four ipods. (Yes I'm defensive).
Read the comments from yesterday's WalMart story. Then tell me which side of this discussion sounds whiny.
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