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...iPhone will soon be making its first appearance in Wal-Mart, the nation's largest discount chain. But, contrary to some reports, don't expect any big discounts...
...Jose Mercury News broke the story last week, and Bloomberg subsequently confirmed, that Wal-Mart employees were prepping for the iPhone invasion in a number of stores throughout California. The newspaper also quoted a Wal-Mart department manager in Milpitas, California, as saying that her store would be getting a $99, 4-gigabyte model. That's half the cost and capacity of the cheapest model currently in Apple's line-up. (See the Top 10 iPhone applications...
...Folks close to the two companies confirm that the same iPhone models you find at AT&T and Apple stores, as well as at BestBuy, are going to be carried by Wal-Mart, if not by Christmas, then the end of December. But they debunk the $99 rumor. None of my sources would say when exactly Wal-Mart would start offering iPhones. That sounds to me like Apple might be having a hard time producing enough iPhones to satisfy Wal-Mart demand. But that's just a guess...
...Black Friday. "Disney World does this every day," notes Nassau County Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey. "People aren't inherently interested in hurting each other." But managing crowds is not something people do well without knowledge and training. Mulvey says that his department met with local retailers, including Wal-Mart, two weeks before Black Friday to remind them that they needed to provide their own security. "We patrol the parking lot, the exteriors, but each individual store is responsible for their own security," says Det. Sgt. Anthony Repalone. "We can't be at every retail store, especially on Black Friday...
...department is planning another meeting with stores for mid-December to share crowd-management strategies and try to prevent future fiascos. So far, Mulvey says, Wal-Mart has been very cooperative in the investigation into Damour's death. "We will continue to work with local law enforcement officials so that together we can implement even stronger safety measures going forward," Mullany, the Wal-Mart executive, said in a statement...