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- rawM3TAL, on 10/11/2007, -3/+29Cheap socks and end tables?!
I GO FO' DA WIFE BEATERS. - torched, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21Yea Walmart is so ***** evil, kidnapping crippled teens and senior citizens with alzheimers and forcing them to work there for $10 an hour.
- goodness0001, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16Nobody forces anybody to work at walmart. It is the employee's choice to work there. If they don't like it, they can find a job elsewhere. Perhaps you own a business and are willing to offer an unskilled worker 15 dollars or whatever you deem a "fair wage".
- socalrob, on 10/11/2007, -3/+15It will be interesting to see if this works. Bringing in more and more technology into Walmart for people who would have otherwise never known about it.
a comment FTA: Perhaps a more accurate headline would be "Wal-Mart to Attempt to Explain Skype to Uncomprehending Customers, Most of Whom Will Pronounce it 'Sky-Pee'"
Makes me think of Family Guy.. "It's my sex box and her name is Sony" - penneyisok, on 10/11/2007, -4/+13Well one things for sure, Wal-marts great for wife beaters.
- EBFoxbat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Hi, I'm Comcastic. I'm new to your pipes, but I'm in them and I'm slowing a specific type of packet down. Sorry about that.
- torched, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Yea for real, usually I have to pay $9.95 a minute for that :(
- DavidOv0216, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8lol skype....its always nice to get those random exotic chicks asking you if you'll talk "inglish" with them lol
- Flummoxer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10Wal-Mart is bigger.
- torched, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9@moogle516
Actually I did work there when I was 19, they started me off at 8.84 an hour and then about 5 months later bumped me up to 9.07 an hour which isn't bad considering it was my first job ever and I had no experiance. Sure my boss was a dick but who really likes thier boss anyways? - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7I think its a great thing, get the word out about skype. Maybe people will realize how useful it is.
- superpixel, on 10/11/2007, -6/+12This is about mindshare, nothing less. Ask any game publisher what being stocked in Mega-lo-mart means. It means getting in the head of your Lowest Common Denominator consumer. Will those consumers love the crackly, echotastic stutter-stop speech of Skype? Well, maybe. For Skype this gets the word out in a way only direct mail could before.
- Chupathingy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8maybe cause a lot of us have never heard of Tesco..
Edit:
ah a quick google search show me why... I'm not in the UK. :) - HappyScrappy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Yeah, and $200 HD-DVd players too. And we know how that came out.
I'll believe this when Wal-Mart announces it. - spyrochaete, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5This is a huge deal in general! This will scare the hell out of greedy telcos which will mean huge benefits for the public. I'm really proud of Skype. They've earned this.
- aristoworks, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Wal-Mart has been selling Skype since December.
- my10cent, on 10/11/2007, -2/+55-6 dollars an hour? *roflmao* I worked at Walmart and I DID get $10 from my first hour there. I NEVER met anyone working at Walmart for 5-6 dollars an hour, and if they did they must have very poor negotiation skills. of course you are only getting that if you write you want it on the application, and then it is their OWN fault.
- nikitam, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3While I can't speak for every employee of the company, I've worked for Wal-Mart for a number of years, and my pay is, quite frankly, substantially higher than $10 an hour. Don't get me wrong, I don't make zillions of dollars, but my pay is hardly horrific.
Just my $.02 - airiox, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3umm the starting pay at walmart is 7.50... not 5-6 bucks, Much hate I see in this one. Clouded your future is
- moogle516, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Wait what ?! I purchased a year of skype back in Jan. , how do I do this?? This is very relevant to my interests.
- adinb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2anyone know what "nine devices" are going to be stocked at wally world?
- ThisIsBob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"Phone companies" are history. Cell phone companies too, soon, and very, very good riddance.
- qwertydvorak, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"Now, admittedly, most people are going to Wal-Mart looking for cheap socks and end tables, not state of the art phone technology, but it can't hurt."
actually walmart is the perfect place for skype to be sold. LOTS of new/illegal immigrants to this country shop there, and they are the ones making the most calls that are still not free. i have free in country long distance, but if you want to call mexico or senegal you skype it. just about every africans' and every mexicans' computer i see has skype on it. alot cheaper than paying the phone co for those calls.
walmart arrived at the top by knowing their customers well. they know exactly what they are doing with skype.
while i think about it, it is also a great place to get hard drives cheap. been hard to find them at best buy, but walmart always has 80gb wd hdds for $50 - diggdeep, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Tesco is coming to the US this year in California, Arizona, and Nevada. They're investing heavily in the US...in the places where Wal-Mart has the fewest stores. You'll hear of them soon.
http://www.freshandeasy.com/ - jedi851508, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2When I was in college, the Wal-Mart store nearby was hiring cashiers with a base pay of $9.50. I work for Wal-mart in their logistics division, and the base pay at our DC is $13.50. When our DC opened, it offered some of the highest paying entry-level jobs in the county. Add in all the $0.50/6mo raises and the Annual Wage Survey (Cost of Living) increases and we're doing alright. Wal-Mart also offers us decent insurance and lots of benefits, enough that they have a pretty hefty book full of them. Please check your facts before blindly spewing hate, thanks.
- charmaniac, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2It can't hurt? Um, yeah. Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the world with $350 billion (yes billion) in revenues. Your damned right it can't hurt, and I guarantee the people at Skype just popped open a bottle of Cristal/Dom Perignom after negotiating this deal.
Anyone who sells ANYTHING at retail wants Wal-Mart to sell their goods. - niradg, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3this is hugely important for skype, imho. the tech-savvy people who know about skype already don't think saving $10 a month is a big deal, but for many people who shop at WalMart this could make a difference in their quality of life- it may also drive an increased adoption of broadband which seems to have slowed, and that will have other positive effects in the long run.
- mykos, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Good stuff! Skype saved me a lot of money when I was in Korea for a year. I kept using calling cards until I heard about it. 1.5 cents a minute beats the heck out of six cents a minute, plus they don't round to six minutes and charge you ten for the connection alone like calling cards do.
- ozydingo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I just wish PC-to-PC free calls weren't limited to Skype networks only. That's why I've started using Gizmo (www.gizmoproject.com) (which fyi has mostly cheaper per-minute call-out rates than Skype to most countries including US, though i don't know about the other services or monthly rates), which can communicate with Google Talk, Jabber, any other SIP / Jabber client.
- mrkris, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2This is huge, not just for Skype but for VoIP in general. This is an area where Vonage is now in jeopardy and now that a name like Wal-Mart is willing to sell a great but affordable VoIP service may work very much in Skype's favor. If this really does take place, look for VoIP to gain a ton of momentum. Creating competition and lower prices as well as innovation for the consumer.
- Dankoozy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2You can't call Iridium satellite phones from Skype (without calling some number in arizona first)
Curse tehm! gahhh! - joerod, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1i use skype every day, it works great! i'm glad its becoming more mainstream.
- DigitalN, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1personally this is good for me, I do not have a credit card / paypal so I am unable to buy it online.
- th3wiz4rd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1You dugg me down for going to walmart, and now you can digg me down for going to walmart.com
Skype Phones at Walmart:
http://www.walmart.com/search/search-ng.do?search_constraint=0&search_query=skype&Continue.x=0&Continue.y=0&Continue=Find&ic=24_0 - pjisback, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1They already are, I saw a skype product at Wal-Mart over 2 weeks ago.
- GlenLeafJr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Wally World has had VoIP gear for well over a year, maybe longer. Maybe it's the prepaid cards that are new.
- Ardiea, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I use the Cisco iPhone (a skype phone) as my only phone since there is wireless everywhere I spend my time, and I don't want to be reached when I am in between. I have to say it is pretty damn good deal. $150 for the phone and $78 a YEAR for unlimited incoming calls and unlimited outgoing calls to US and Canada. The phone is a first generation product so it has its quirks, but it is worth rebooting it once in a while considering the money I am saving vs. a cellphone.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Are the people that shop at Wal-Mart going to be smart enough to:
a) Know what skype is
b) Know how to use it
c) Not come back to the store angry that their Skype phone wasn't picking up their phone calls from their landline phone - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3One of the world's other retail giants, Tesco has been doing this for a long time although it sells own-branded devices under the banner "Tesco Internet Phone". I didn't see a news article then, why does it matter if Wal-Mart sell them?
- PatrickBrown, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1The trouble with Wal-Mart, aside from their enabling of overseas human rights abuses, is that they make it impossible to form any type of national union while at the same time maintaining a significant part-time staff in order to avoid full benefits that many older employees require (that store discount doesn't mean much when your kid needs an appendectomy).
Many would argue that going after Wal-Mart for such problems is unfair as other companies commit the same problems. That is fine, but I expect you to be on the front lines promoting national healthcare and public housing then. - johanm, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Skype products are everywhere! This it not news!
- Misaiato, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1People need to catch on about VoIP - there are a number of great companies doing VoIP in ways that will very soon influence all land-lines. You're big players like Qwest and Time Warner are giving people "digital phone" that isn't truly VoIP in the most pure sense, and then other players like Fonality, Broadsoft (which licenses to companies offering SIP trunks) and of course the enterprise Cisco CallManager. It's going to dominate ALL THIS SH!T
- twodayslate, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1"Wal-mart is for wife beaters..."
-Kevin Rose - moogle516, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2$10 dollars an hour ?!, apprently you've never have worked there or know anyone that works there, most people are paid like 5-6 dollars at wal-mart.
- allahuakbar, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1Skype is a Piece of *****!!! Who cares, it's not wonderful new technology, is it possible to have voip fanboys, because they must be all over here!
- allahuakbar, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1who cares. who cares about skype, some pos that doesn't matter.
- th3wiz4rd, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1Old news - I was in a Walmart about a month ago (unfortunately) and saw that they were selling Skype phones.
- bamiller3, on 10/11/2007, -8/+2Funny, I thought Ebay owned Skype.
- kLoWn420, on 10/11/2007, -8/+0state of the art? It's not that tech-y. Even for Wal-Satan shoppers.
- Mordakaida, on 10/11/2007, -24/+1Wal-mart is loosing out big because people are disgusted at how they treat their employees and customers. They have to do something to keep both and apparently doing better is not getting it done so my first bet would be .. sell more crap.
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