wal mart ammo?

[RANDO]

i live in concord and cant find any ammo at the walmarts in martinez or pittsburg where do they sell ammo at the walmarts in the east bay? or do they?

[goober]

i apologize that this does not answer your question. but i'm saying that up front so you won't read my rant hoping for an answer. that being said....

So normally I avoid Wal-Mart like the plague. I know there are good deals to be had there, but the outlets in my area seem to be a nightmare: aisles clogged with what seems like every member of every too-large family from miles around (including every ill-behaved child), goods in disarray after being fussed with by the aforementioned "shoppers", and next-to-no chance of any real customer service, as the staff neither seem to really know anything about what they sell, nor care. I'm sure part of it is due to the demographics in my area, but thats a given that I factor into many of my decisions about where to go or shop. And I know that Wal-Mart isn't necessarily the place you go when you want customer service... Understood. I'm just saying that the potential deals on a great diversity of goods have always been outweighed by the associated costs to my sanity and blood pressure. So I just don't go there.
Recently (in the last year or so) they opened a new Wal-Mart near my work. It used to be a K-Mart but closed and then sat vacant for a couple years before being facelifted into a WM. I've meant to check it out for a while, but hadn't gotten around to it until today.
I've been needing to replenish our house's supply of .22lr ammo. We go through several hundred to a few thousand rounds a week, and what was once a huge stockpile has begun to dwindle... So it was with this goal in mind that I decided to finally check out the "new" Wally-World. I know they often have good deals on ammo, especially on the Remnigton "Golden bullet" that seems to function well in many of our .22 conversion kits for our larger-caliber handguns and rifles.
Imagine my surprise as I arrived to find a parking lot with plenty of spaces near the store entrances, and share with me my wide-eyed awe as I entered to find a vast, new, well-stocked store with plenty of goods, well-natured salespeople, and wonderful, wide aisles that were not clogged with aneurysm-inducing unruly obstacles! I quickly decided that this was my new favorite Wal-Mart, and, after a brief dalliance in the automotive section began to home in on the sporting goods department with dreams of cases of cheap .22lr dancing before my eyes. When I got there i began to wonder if paradise was really all it was cracked up to be. After relating my feelings about this being my favorite Wal-Mart to the guy manning the sporting goods department, I wandered about for a few minutes wondering where the ammo (and guns) were. After failing to find them I wishfully theorized that they must have a whole section dedicated to firearms (for security reasons, of course). So I wandered the entire store, searching vainly for the elusive ammo that drew me to this place to begin with.
Halfway or so though, I began to really worry. This was beginning to seem like some cruel joke. The nirvanna of cheap goods sold in a tolerable environment had been dangled before my eyes, but it was appearing increasingly likely that I was to be denied that for which I originally came. I found my way back to the sporting goods section and finally came right out and asked the guy. He told me no, they had no "real" ammunition. Paintball, and BB's/pellets, and airsoft, sure.... But no "real" guns or ammunition. He was very apologetic, but I barely heard anything after "No, I'm sorry"...
My heart sank, and my head bowed, and I shambed out of the store a broken, disillusioned man.
So close....but yet so far....

[vlsgmc]

Did you ask in sporting goods? The Wal-Mart here doesn't usually have any on display. A few days ago was the first time I saw any and it was one box of each type of shotgun ammo they had on sale. The had plenty of WWB .45 to sell me.

[domokun]

The short and concise answer is that any Walmart in Contra Costa and Alameda counties WILL NOT have ammo for sale in their sporting goods department. Any Walmart outside of these two counties should carry ammo in their sporting goods department.

[joemama]

didnt walmarts ffl get pulled or something like a decade ago? I barely remember them selling real firearms at the walmart in chico but I havent seen any in a very long time.

[Dr Rockso]

They stopped selling guns in CA a few years back, lots of mistakes on the part of employees. The Mountain View and Milpitas store in the Silicon Valley area still sell ammo, though.

[11011500a]

Tracy sells win 9mm 100 $20. 40s&w 100 $23 .16ga lead#6 25 $6

[homi mike]

The short and concise answer is that any Walmart in Contra Costa and Alameda counties WILL NOT have ammo for sale in their sporting goods department. Any Walmart outside of these two counties should carry ammo in their sporting goods department.

+1. Drive farther out of these counties and you shall see some ammos on the shelves

[masameet]

I get my ammo from the Am Can (American Canyon) Wal*Mart. It's on Hwy 29, east side, just before the Hwy 12 nexus (from Hwy 37). At least once a week or so I ride my motorcycle in the Napa hills. So I try to hit the Carquinez bridge during the commute time to catch the free bridge toll.

You could also get ammo from the Fairfield store, which is just beyond the first exit off of EB Hwy 12 (from I-80).