The iPad is Coming to Walmart This Friday
If you've been lusting after an iPad at your local Best Buy, you'll be pleased to know that the device will now be calling out to you from the shelves of your local Walmart.
Retailer Walmart last night confirmed that it will be selling the iPad, and very soon, too. The company has said that the Apple tablet will be hitting stores on October 15. That’s this coming Friday for those of you who have misplaced your calendars.
Fortune reports that the addition of Walmart stores to the 221 Apple stores, 1,093 Best Buys and 1,743 Target branches already selling the device will bring the number of places Americans can purchase an iPad to more than 5,300. The site also notes that this is the fastest Apple has every pushed a product out to the big-name retailers. The iPhone, for example, took a year and a half to reach Walmart.
It's not exactly surprising that Apple has decided to up the ante regarding retail locations. After all, the holiday season is approaching. Indeed, the Wall Street Journal reports that, though the iPad will only be in a few hundred Walmarts at first, it will be in 2,300 stores by mid-November. What would Black Friday be without iPad stampedes?
Source: Fortune, Wall Street Journal

Just imagine :
-person enters wal-mart
-door greeter says script "Welcome to Wal-mart. May I freaking help you?" which has now been updated to "Welcome to Wal-mart. May I freaking show you this wonderful angry F$#@$$# bird application?"
-door greeter's crack-like addiction to angry bird on ipad kicks in as he demonstrates the ipad upon entering patrons and forgets to do his job
-person that previously entered either becomes zombified by the ipaddedness or becomes smart and either walks away or pull a quick u-turn and gets the heck outta there
Apple can't possibly lose with this idea now can they?
Man you've really been thinking about this a lot.
I also question the meaning of this article. iPad going to one more retailer is not worthy of news.
Will Wal-Mart be offering a discount? I'm waiting for that.
If so, I'll get an ipad from Wal-Mart. That means I can enjoy my favourite movies and videos on iPad on the go, even sometime maybe need in the help of iFunia iPad Video Converter, u know to steaming videos are too slow!
- Steve
How does it not?
The Mactards are finally stepping down to the level of Wintards
Apple chooses the epicenter for the poor and uneducated to sell an overpriced high tech gadget that cant afford it and dont need it.
"Buy now, pay never" its the American way.
and - Dell
and - HP
and - Nokia
and countless others.
So, you're suggesting that Apple, as a business, should not try and put their product in one of the world's largest retail outlets? You have fantastic business sense. Like every business, they're out there to turn profits. If they were into the morality business they'd be out there arm in arm with Greenpeace getting their boats smashed and boarding whaling ships.