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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / ATT Wireless / February 2004Could Wal Mart Bid for ATT WS?
It would not suprise me beings how Wal Mart seems to be in about everything these days. Think of the great synergies here- phones and plans sold at Wal Marts all over North America- no need to have high rent stand alone stores- just a booth in each Wal Mart and Sams. And you can bet that you'd pay bottom dollar for the phones too if the way they do business is any indication. >It would not suprise me beings how Wal Mart seems to be in about everything >these days. Think of the great synergies here- phones and plans sold at Wal >Marts all over North America- no need to have high rent stand alone stores- >just a booth in each Wal Mart and Sams. And you can bet that you'd pay bottom >dollar for the phones too if the way they do business is any indication. Wal Mart and Sams (as well as Costco) already have phone sales kiosks in their stores. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - remove NONO from .NONOcom to reply > >It would not suprise me beings how Wal Mart seems to be in about everything > >these days. Think of the great synergies here- phones and plans sold at Wal [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > remove NONO from .NONOcom to reply YEah except peopel who shop at Walmart are not your ideal demographic >YEah except peopel who shop at Walmart are not your ideal demographic Of course they are. About 50 million of us have cell phones and it covers all demographics. I shop there all the time (although I still buy food at Kroger) and I have 2 phones. Inner city people are probably not an "ideal demographic" either but Metro PCS makes a good profit there. > >YEah except peopel who shop at Walmart are not your ideal demographic > > Of course they are. About 50 million of us have cell phones and it covers all > demographics. I shop there all the time (although I still buy food at Kroger) > and I have 2 phones. Inner city people are probably not an "ideal demographic" > either but Metro PCS makes a good profit there. The ideal demographic gets a free phone and signs up for $100 plan and stays with the company forever. The inidieal demographic gets 2 free phones and signs up for a $50 plan and changes carriers every year. The latter, while giving you scale to keep operations running will not allow you any profit. So, assuming you have enough of those customers (e.g., as Cing and VZW do) you do not want more of them. And I doubt MetroPCS is making the kinds of profits Cing or VZW would even notice. >> >It would not suprise me beings how Wal Mart seems to be in about everything >> >these days. Think of the great synergies here- phones and plans sold at Wal [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >YEah except peopel who shop at Walmart are not your ideal demographic OK Einstein who *is* the ideal demographic? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - remove NONO from .NONOcom to reply >Wal Mart and Sams (as well as Costco) already have phone sales kiosks >in their stores. They sell phones for other companies but increasingly Wal Mart is starting to market their own brands in direct competition to their own vendors. > >Wal Mart and Sams (as well as Costco) already have phone sales kiosks > >in their stores. > > They sell phones for other companies but increasingly Wal Mart is starting to > market their own brands in direct competition to their own vendors. I would never subscribe to WalMart Cellular. It would getting Big K-mart DSL or something. ...and Wal-Mart is a nice cheap ISP. At $10 per mo. they are re-selling Compuserve, which is warmed-over AOL. No reason why the can't re-brand any cell service and be cheaper. Bill Radio Click for Western U.S. Wireless Reviews at: http://www.mountainwireless.com > > >Wal Mart and Sams (as well as Costco) already have phone sales kiosks > > >in their stores. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > I would never subscribe to WalMart Cellular. It would getting Big > K-mart DSL or something. STOP THE INSANITY Did you just really say NICE , Compuserve, and AOL all in the same sentence?? ACK.. neither of those are nice, AOL BLOWS, and AOL BLOWS again.. EOS > ...and Wal-Mart is a nice cheap ISP. At $10 per mo. they are re-selling > Compuserve, which is warmed-over AOL. No reason why the can't re-brand any [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > I would never subscribe to WalMart Cellular. It would getting Big > > K-mart DSL or something. >Did you just really say NICE , Compuserve, and AOL all in the same >sentence?? ACK.. neither of those are nice, AOL BLOWS, and AOL BLOWS again.. Is Prodigy still around? > >Did you just really say NICE , Compuserve, and AOL all in the same > >sentence?? ACK.. neither of those are nice, AOL BLOWS, and AOL BLOWS again.. > > Is Prodigy still around? SBC bought it and Prodigy did such a bad job of being an ISP, that SBC turned it over to Yahoo. >SBC bought it and Prodigy did such a bad job of being an ISP, that SBC >turned it over to Yahoo. I remember when Prodigy was THE ISP everybody had. |
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