To answer your question... "No." I feel guilty if I buy a soda from Walmart. If I bought a TV or a computer there, I'd lose sleep!

Wal Mart is picking up where Circuit city left off...you mean as a secondrate electronics store with ignorant customer service and faulty products?

Nicely put.

I like to shop were it's cheap, and guess what, Wal-Mart isn't all that cheap in Canada...
I like dedicated shops for electronics anyways for better support.
I bought my current computer from a wholesale shop. They have provided me with all the service I needed at a damned cheap price.

Online owns Wal-mart anyways.

I will never buy a TV from Wal-Mart again...

Man I hope they don't pick up where Circuit City left off. Where they left off is the reason I refused to shop there.

Wal-Mart gets their cheap prices by purchasing the stuff that didn't pass the QA checks by the manufacturers. The stuff usually works, but there's something wrong with it - either it's dinged or scratched, or the molding around the screen on the TV doesn't quite fit right - it could be any of a thousand things wrong that would make any respectable retailer reject the product. If you don't care about the aesthetics or perhaps minor glitches, then maybe buying from Wal-Mart is a good idea. Personally, I wouldn't buy anything from them at all, even if they were the only retailers to carry what I want - I'd rather go without.

I am not sure how a Blackberry Curve bought at Wal-Mart can be "faultier" than what you buy at a regular ATT outlet.

wall mart is a to big stoer the govt doesnt need them

Is that a fact or another myth?
Why would the manufacturers want to get stuck with a 3 yr warranty on something that is faulty by default, according to your conspiracy theory.

The average customer doesnt know anything about what makes good tv picture quality, ease of use, or how to hook things up. The average walmart employee doesnt know or care either. I'll stick with best buy. They price match walmart anyway.

I might buy from them if there was a great sale going on but I prefer online shopping 99.9%.

@asgallant

I know for a fact that they get the same products as the electronic outlets. The distro center I worked at received those supposedly "faulty" products and the truck drivers I spoke to had just left best buy... So I don't see how your theory bears any relevance.

Oh it's so hard to hook up an HDMI cable from the TV to your blu-ray.
If you are getting your technical research done at the store, whatever that store might be, you already lost half the battle.
Do your research online and see if you can get a cheaper deal at the sotre. do not liten to any of the BS you are being serverd at the store .. period.
I have 2 TV's I got from Walmart in the last two years ( during their thanksgiving huge sales, and they work flawlessly, and they don't seem any faultier or "esthetically bad" compared to the one I bought at Magonlia ( the local "high end", extreme liberal approved store).
Oh yea ... and the Xbox I got from Wal-mart lasted longer than the one I got at Best Buy , however it was $75 cheaper

If u want cheap, buy Newegg or tigerdirect.

Don't be a dick, I was a supervisor at one of the best performing CC's & my entire team was polite, knowledgeable & amazing. Just because your few bad encounters made you upset don't label everyone espoecially since a lot of us are unemployed right now.

I normally don't have anything good to say about walmart but I did buy a 27in RCA tube for $199 when i was in high school(2001) and its actually been a great TV worked flawlessly the whole time and the picture quality is prety good for TV of its age.

Cheap TVs aren't all bad if that's all you can afford at the time

And the more 1080p TVs that people buy the faster Blu ray prices will drop.

i buy PC games now and then at walmart and even got my HP printer there. Walmart will give best buy a run for its money in the lower end electronics category....not that best buy is all that great in high end.

While this is true for the most part, I DO know what to look for in HDTV picture quality and electronics in general, and I did manage to find a good TV for a good price at Wal-Mart. Commodity items like DVD players are also not going to trip you up (if you avoid the Insignia badged ones). Not to mention the DVDs to play on them. And all that was true before they started expanding the electronics department.

WalMart is a front for the Chinese government and military. All the products you buy there help support their expanding military. Since there will probably be a nuclear exchange between China and the U.S. sometime in the next ten years, I really do not want to give them any more of an edge than they have now. Hell, they practically own the U.S. economy now.

Never will i shop at Wal-Mart, and even if i somehow had to shop there, say if wal-mart hacks the server's of every other product selling company, which might happen some day anyways, i still wouldnt purchase a computer there, seeing as how they can sell things "cheaper" they can only do this because of the second rate built products. not to mention places like tigerdirect, newegg, and other such online retailers would still have wal-mart beat, in not only price but service and quality too. so in short, no i wouldnt buy computers from wal-mart

Holy crap,
How did a simple article about an electronics section attract such theories? Don't you have something better to spew about? I know my personal favorite because it's so down right rediculous is that Bill Gates is the antichrist.

I don't think Walmart is the worst thing in the world. More competition.

Will I shop at Wal-Mart? No. I try really hard to avoid big box stores and look for local guys (difficult to do in this age of mega-chain stores). I prefer to shop locally and keep more of my money circulating in region.

However, I am glad Wal-Mart will be doing this. After CompUSA's and Circuit City's collapse, there is no real competitor to Best Buy in my area. "Big Blue" needs someone to keep them in check. Who knows, maybe Target will join in on the fun and create multiple competitors.

Walmart Walmart is our store; we shop there because we're poor

In all seriousness, bying electronics at Walmart is only good if there is a huge sale, or you are in a pinch. Their prices are generally 10-20% higher than real electronic stores, and their inventory is normally dated. Heck, a couple of weeks back I saw a P4 system on sale for $600. Talk about old and over priced.

I'm curious what their return policies will be like. Right now it is a 'no questions asked' money back policy. Comp USA and Circuit City (rip) have restocking fees regardless of your reason! Anytime my wife or me are disappointed with their merchandise, she drives to the nearest (10-15 miles away) Wal-Mart and returns it! You can't beat that. I think there is real potential here.

The only electronic products I get there is the "light" stuff: blank DVDs, cords & cables, etc

Sorry, I prefer real local stores with an actual knowledgeable staff.

Exactly. What this will accomplish is making chains such as Best Buy step their game up to retain or regain consumers. So even if you do not shop at Wal-Mart you might still benefit from this.

i buy from them if they can beat newegg service and prices. which i have yet to find.

I've bought consumables there, and HP inkjet printers, and at least one Linksys router. It's like any other place; if you know what you're getting (and not getting, like competent tech services) beforehand, it's fine.

I wont buy from them. Got a netbook that broke 20 days later and wanted to exchange it for a working one. They said they have a 15 day policy and I had to send it in for warranty repair. I could have bought it at target for a buck more and been able to return it up to 90 days later; newegg is also more generous. Why would I take such a risk with an expensive TV?

Alright let's ramp up the censorship!

Maybe they can turn my farts into Steven Wright jokes.

"...are you willing to shop for your electronics at Wal-Mart?"

No.

Local CompUSA has way better prices than what wallyworld would post.