Yesterday, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce plans to offer the iPhone 4 and 5 on a pre-paid basis with Straight Talk, a no-contract carrier offering unlimited data plans. And if you go with anything else, you’re probably a sucker. More »
The next time you’re shopping at Walmart to pick up pretty much anything you’d ever need in your life, don’t pass up a trip to their Straight Talk kiosk if you’re in the market for an iPhone 5 with no contract as the company announced it’ll start offering just that very soon.
Starting on January 11, the iPhone 5 will be available on Straight Talk’s $45 no contract unlimited talk, text and data plan, which the company says will save the average consumer $950 a year when compared to conventional contract plans that have similar unlimited plans. Not only that, but the iPhone 4 will also be made available to pick up as well.
The 16GB iPhone 5 and 8GB iPhone 4 can be picked up for $649 and $449, respectively, although customers purchasing either iPhones with their Walmart Credit Card can receive a fixed special financing plan of $25 a month.
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Customers have been able to enjoy the iPhone experience on Walmart’s Straight Talk “BYOD” phone plans for quite some time now, but the prepaid provider will begin directly selling the iPhone 5 — as well as the iPhone 4 — on January 11th. The iPhone 5 will be offered in 16GB and will be sold for $649, while the iPhone 4 will come with 8GB storage and go for $449. If you don’t want to pay the entire cost up front, you can take advantage of Walmart’s monthly installment-financing plans for $25. For more specifics, head below the break to get the full press release.
Continue reading iPhone 5 coming to Walmart’s Straight Talk prepaid plans January 11th
Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, Mobile, Apple
Source: PRNewsWire
We don’t know about you, but when it comes to shopping, we prefer to do it from the comfort of our home while sipping a chilled glass of Hi-C and reading the latest Cracked magazine. Forget for a minute how reading a magazine and shopping online wouldn’t make any sense and let’s move on to why you’re here: Target is announcing a year-round price match with online retailers.
Now, before you get excited about a bargain you found on UncleWilliesHouseOfDeals.net that you plan to bring in to Target in order to get a 110-inch HDTV into your pickup truck for $.28, there are some limitations to the price matching with online retailers. First off, it needs to be a way more legitimate retailer such as Amazon, Walmart, BestBuy, ToysRus, and, ironically, Target’s online website.
Target shoppers will also be able to demand their price match before or after a product was purchased from their stores. All you’ll need to do is make a trip to the lovely Target Guest Services section of the store to show them proof of the price difference, and Target will match that price.
Target’s year-round price match of online retailers goes into affect immediately.
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One Laptop Per Child still hasn’t revealed any pricing details about that US-bound XO Tablet, but today the company’s announcing some of the retail shelves we can expect its new child-friendly device to hit. For starters, the XO Tablet will be available at ‘select’ Walmart brick-and-mortar stores and website in the US this year, however OLPC wasn’t quite clear about when exactly that’s going to be — we tried asking the company ourselves, but we were told no information could be given at the time. Furthermore, OLPC said it has struck a deal with Sakar International, which gives the latter exclusives rights “to sell the XO Tablet to leading US retailers for both in-store and online sales.” Only time will tell how many retailers will join Wally on offering the learning device, but one of the world’s largest retailers certainly isn’t a bad place to start.
Continue reading OLPC announces XO Tablet coming to select Walmart stores later in 2013
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Source: OLPC
Gadget manufacturers may be the ones taking the limelight here at CES 2013, but retail chains are also making an appearance and announcing some cool new services. Case in point: Walmart just announced an expansion to their disc-to-digital service by bringing it to the comfort of your home, making it easier to convert your physical media.
The new in-home service is powered by video-streaming service VUDU, and it will give users the capability to convert DVD and Blu-ray movies to UltraViolet digital copies. UltraViolet is a free, cloud-based digital library that allows users improved flexibility with how and where they watch movies and TV shows that they’ve purchased.
Walmart is making the process fairly simple as well. Users just need to go to the VUDU website, or open up the desktop app on Windows or Mac, and then search for content that you already own in physical form. You’ll then have a couple of options to choose from: converting a DVD or Blu-ray to digital for $2 each, or upscale a standard-definition DVD to HD for $5 each.
The new service is set to launch sometime in the middle of February, but the VUDU mobile app is available for download in both the iTunes App Store and Google Play. Walmart has announced that it’s giving customers who sign up for a new VUDU account 10 free pre-selected movies when they either sign up for an UltraViolet account or link to an existing account.
Walmart announces new in-home disc-to-digital service at CES 2013 is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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If you’re looking to convert DVDs and BluRay discs to a digital format and want it to be easy, but not too easy, and definitely not free, Walmart has the service for you. They’re automating their Disc-to-Digital service so you can get UltraViolet versions of movies you’ve already bought. More »
Best Buy dropped the price of the 16GB iPhone 5 to $150 last month, and Walmart bested that with a $127 iPhone. Now Best Buy says lost a whole $65,000 on this one product in just one day because it was forced go meet that lower price. More »
If you remember, Both Walmart and Best Buy competed in a discount war with Apple’s iPhone 5, where both retailers offered steep discounts on the new smartphone. Best Buy dropped the price down to $150 for the 16GB entry-level model, while Walmart dropped it to just $127. However, it turns out that Best Buy took quite a hit on profits that day, and the company is accusing Walmart of misleading customers with their iPhone 5 discount ad.
Essentially, Best Buy wasn’t too happy about Walmart’s steeper discount on the iPhone 5 because they don’t think that Walmart had enough iPhone 5 units to meet demand. Therefore, Best Buy was filling the stock at a discount that Walmart doesn’t have. Best Buy has reportedly claimed it lost about $65,000 in profit on the day Walmart advertised its iPhone 5 promotion, and the store says it was forced to match Walmart’s advertised price, even though they claim Walmart didn’t have enough iPhone 5 inventory in the first place.
However, Walmart claims that it did, in fact, have sufficient stock of the iPhone 5, quoting 98% availability at its stores carrying the device. Walmart had noted as the sale launched that it was working closely with Apple on the promotion and was securing significant numbers of units, but that the sale was first-come first-serve with no rain checks being offered.
Any way you look at it, it seems Best Buy was simply just upset that Walmart was undercutting them, and they felt like they needed a reliable excuse in order to effectively complain about the price difference. $65,000 in one day may not seem like a lot, and we don’t know what Best Buy’s sales goals were for the day, but that much of a loss in a single day is huge any way you look at it.
[via WSJ]
Best Buy complains about Walmart’s iPhone 5 discount ad, loses $65K in one day is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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As major online retailers are being shoved further into the physical realm to keep competitive, eBay’s doing everything it can to stay in the fray with the announcement of two new pilot programs. More »
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