Wal-Mart, from craddle to grave
by James on Oct.30, 2009, under Random
Wal-Mart has recently started selling a variety of caskets and urns on their web site, targeting the budget minded in their waning years. Most of the caskets can be purchased for less than two grand, and if you happen to know the impending date of your demise, you can finance them for twelve months with no interest.
More run-of-the-mill coffin retailers say they are not worried about Wal-Marts entry into the market and I for one would have to agree with them. With them safely stashed in some back corner (While they are listed as being part of For the Home(?) department, I could not navigate to caskets directly with a search) of their web site people are unlikely to even know that they are there. Now if they start stocking them in store, say across from the pharmacy, then they might see some competition.
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