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Walmart Discontinues Auto Part Sales To Prevent Car Accidents
2019-09-05
[Babylon Bee] BENTONVILLE, AR‐In a bold move intended to curb the thousands of deaths from vehicles each and every day, Walmart has decided to stop selling auto parts, sources confirmed Tuesday.

According to shocking reports, people have purchased car parts at Walmart and then those cars have been involved in accidents, proving a direct correlation between selling auto parts and causing deaths.

"We can no longer be complicit in an industry that kills over 3,000 people a day," said a spokesperson for Walmart. "Every time we sell a muffler, steering wheel cover, or flame decal, we are potentially causing the death of a person, and we cannot support that any longer."

"It's clear that bad drivers and poor road conditions don't cause vehicular deaths---cars do."

Walmart executives said they are beating themselves with a stick to atone for the deaths they've already caused.

"Our consciences will only be clean when we've been mercilessly beaten once for each of the millions of deaths that have been caused by automobiles since Walmart began selling auto parts," said one executive before solemnly beginning to beat himself with a baseball bat.
Posted by:Besoeker

#13  If Walmart wants to save lives so bad, start with alcohol. Lets see how much that takes off the bottom line.
Posted by: bbrewer126   2019-09-05 21:46  

#12  Get Woke, go broke can happen to Walmart.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-09-05 17:01  

#11  Chasing away the pro-gun crowd will cut the Walmart customer base in half and the left won't fill the gap (even if they pretend to be pro-Walmart right now).

Increased prices on junk made in China or previously made in China will chase away the other half of their customer base.

Bad times get worse when you think Virtue signalling is a viable plan.
Posted by: ruprecht   2019-09-05 15:15  

#10  Please, add a few more clues in this article for the clueless.

The beauty of playing Bee/Not Bee. You should see the dollar jar of mine, getting the guess wrong.

Reminds me to cash the kitty to 'Burg.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-09-05 10:35  

#9  Not so much as socialists stealing from businesses to pay the 'jhuggiwalas' voting for them.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-09-05 06:47  

#8  Yeah, where you live a lot of the overhead comes from the shrinkage associated with jhuggi wallahs stealing everything they can.
Posted by: Lampedusa Bluetooth6037   2019-09-05 06:34  

#7  Oh. Country to country differences.

Where I live, the overheads of an Airconed superstore with amenities and assistance personnel are often greater than the simple warehouse, stocking car-parts. You take your part to be replaced, or just tell them if it's a common enough item. You wait a few minutes and they bring it to you.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-09-05 06:11  

#6  why?

Most of the cost of sale is overhead, not the part. Walmart runs with lower overheads than a specialist store.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-09-05 05:59  

#5  Car parts have got to be cheaper at parts sellers than at walmarts ?
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-09-05 05:40  

#4  boomerc, it's a babylon bee thingy.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-09-05 05:38  

#3  Nooo! Was just going to Wally World for new tires before setting off on vehicular rampage. Will now have to take the bus.
Posted by: Zenobia Ebbineger7578   2019-09-05 05:33  

#2  Remington had a shotgun made with Sam Walton's picture and signature on it, the Remington 1100 Sam Walton. Companies rarely emulate their original founders. Even Disney is nothing like the founder Walt Disney.
Posted by: Phaick Uneretle6310   2019-09-05 05:20  

#1  Please, I was very disturbed to read this article
since I fix my own car!
I buy from Walmart to save on shipping costs.
I prefer Walmart and their third party sellers to Jeff Bezos.
I was slow to get it, since there was no reference to the recent WM decision to stop selling certain bullets.
Please, add a few more clues in this article for the clueless.
Posted by: boomerc   2019-09-05 04:43  

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