"Forrrdays Cabiler? For peesdal or rafle?"

100 rounds of Winchester White Box, .40 caliber FMJ is $15.45 in my local Wal-Mart. Most dedicated target shooters use at least that much a week, and were the Wal-Mart salesclerk capable of speaking English I'm sure she'd tell me that they sell out such practice ammo each and every week, because each and every week they are either low or if I'm slow must look elsewhere. Not that she, or he, or some of them quite frankly "it", cares that they could sell a lot more, because they're so low paid why should they give a hoot. Back in late 2004 Forbes did a study on Wal-Mart wages, and determined that if Wal-Mart raised the wage of every employee one-dollar per hour, it would cost them $.5 cents, yes half-a-cent per worker, towards their bottom line.

Now, I'd be willing to pay a full cent more for my ammo, and call me silly but I believe that most folks wouldn't be all that unhappy with a penny an item surcharge to boost the pay and benefits of Wal-Mart employees, especially if they knew that such employees cost the American taxpayer 3 billion dollars a year just for medical services alone.
But Wal-Mart doesn't look at it that way. They see 1.5 million workers at a penny an hour apiece and the beancounter honchos salivate at the thought of DROPPING them a penny rather than raising them one.
And that's what beancounters are for, but someone has to pay and it'd be nice if THEY did rather than us.

Sure I could spend $3 more per box somewhere else, but the Wally World store is on the way and they have so much other stuff it saves on gas too, when I drop on in for ammo.
I guess I'm as much to blame as they are. It's hard to fight human nature and not select the lowest price, especially when you're not wasting it on gas traipsing about looking to squeeze a few cents in one place while losing twice that much elsewhere.
But I've decided to take a stand. Yeah, big deal, one dude, but supporting an out of the way gunshop...maybe even the range itself but then it's almost double the price so I dunno...is better for me in the long run because they speak English and that means my blood pressure stays lower so that's swell, too.