Walmart rips off miltary personel in online sales

[Bombero1956]

Overseas military customers ordering gifts online from certain retailers might get an unpleasant surprise when shipping and handling fees are tacked on at the end of the purchase.

Those same customers might be most surprised to find that retail giant Walmart had the biggest markup.

On a $120 purchase, Walmart.com charged $10.35 to ship to an APO address, compared with $2.10 to a stateside address. For most items, Amazon.com charged the same to ship to an APO address as a stateside address. And Target offered shipping on a $120 purchase to an APO address for less than to a stateside address.


http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=66700

Why am I not surprised.

[Nikki Stone1]

1. Who does the actual transporting to the war zone? I am assuming the US military.

So if the corporate delivery is all stateside and the military transports the stuff from the US port to the war zone, what the fuck is Wal Mart charging for?

[Bombero1956]

2. the military ships overseas

so no matter where they make the purchase they are just shipping to the military shipping point. I imagine that there's one in New York for the European zone and one on the west coast for the Pacific and Asian zones.

[Nikki Stone1]

4. So these companies are only shipping stateside, but Wal Mart is jacking up the price for no reason

Typical.

The damned military supplies the free shipping outside the US.

[Turbineguy]

3. That's the whole point of the APO system

to give the Military, no matter where in the world they are, a domestic address.

Cue in magnetic ribbon: The Troops Support Us

[HopeHoops]

5. Yeah, lets hear it for those "every day low prices".

Of course, such an un-American rip-off should come naturally to WalMart.