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Wal-Mart to Sell iPhones Starting Sunday

by Jordan Yerman | December 26, 2008 at 11:07 am

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So much for high-end... Wal-mart will be offering the iPhone in, like, a few days. This will bring the device into more markets; pricewise, it's a whole two bucks cheaper than at AT&T stores.

Walmart has officially announced today that the iPhone 3G will go on sale at 2500 Walmart stores on December 28, 2008.

The retailer will offer the black 8 GB iPhone 3G model with the every day price of $197 and the 16 GB black or white model for $297, with a new two-year service agreement from AT&T or qualified upgrade. As America's price leader, Walmart's price match policy also allows stores to match the price of any local competitor's advertised store price on the same item within the same promotional period.

Price-matching should be fairly straightforward, as Apple manages retail price by setting a wholesale price within a few percentile points of retail... I speak from bitter experience.

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Jawa Lunk

at 03:46 on December 27th, 2008

Well I can't say that I agree with Kazelkae or Kazelljw...BUT, I think this is great news!

I live in a 1 horse town, but we do have a Walmart Super Store!

Jordan Yerman

at 06:58 on December 27th, 2008

Indeed, I think the mass-market veneer is wearing off of Apple's accessories. Their computer equipment remains, though, due to the high price point compared to similar products running different operating systems, but smartphones? Not quite so rare anymore. It all happened so fast!