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Walmart Caskets: Only $895

by Jordan Yerman | October 29, 2009 at 06:41 am

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Walmart is selling caskets. I thought this was a hoax, but it turns out that Walmart is indeed setting its sights on the funeral business, undercutting local funeral homes like it does every other local business. Walmart caskets start at $895. Of course, I found it by just searching walmart's products, and they may want to find a way to present products for such sensitive purposes a bit differently: if you search for "caskets" on walmart.com, you find them in the same search results display as the DVD for Shoot to Kill. Searching Walmart for "coffin" actually presents a few mass-market paperbacks ahead of the vessel for your earthly remains. Fisher & Sons must be seething.

Federal law requires funeral homes to accept third-party caskets.

The caskets are available online only, as the presence of a row of caskets would be a bit of a downer for most big-box-store shoppers.

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master_jim2008

at 07:44 on October 29th, 2009

What gets me, more than the amazement that they sell caskets, is that the search results show "14 results found for "caskets" in For the Home"

For the home??? WTFE!!

master_jim2008

at 08:02 on October 29th, 2009

If they start selling home baby delivery kits or supplies, they'll have it all....from birth to death and good deals on toilet paper for the "inbetween" times lmao

HCream (not verified)

at 19:50 on October 29th, 2009

It makes perfect business sense for Wal-Mart because they know the baby boomers are aging and what’s coming next. I just hope that there’s no “Assemble Required” sign on their delivered products.

I won’t be surprised to see store such as Rooms To Go will soon adding a subsidiary “Holes To Go”.