By Marcus Kabel
AP Business Writer
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has decided to stop selling guns in about a third of its U.S. stores in what it calls a marketing decision based on lack of demand in some places, a company spokeswoman said Friday.
The world's largest retailer decided last month to remove firearms from about 1,000 stores in favor of stocking other sporting goods, in line with a "Store of the Community" strategy for boosting sales by paying closer attention to local differences in demand.
"This decision is based on diminished customer relevancy and demand in these markets," said Wal-Mart spokeswoman Jolanda Stewart.
Don Lipsey, manager of the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Quincy, declined to comment Friday. He said he might have more information next week.
A spokesman for the Wal-Mart SuperCenter in Hannibal, Mo., referred all questions to the company's corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Ark.
A spokesman for Wal-Mart in Bentonville told The Herald-Whig neither the Quincy nor Hannibal store would be affected, although a complete nationwide list of the stores to have guns removed would not be completed until sometime in the next few months.
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Old Bill at Wal-Mart doesn't sell that many guns, anyway. K-Mart said they can't remember the last time they sold a gun. Decent guns are too expensive to get wholesale to sell retail, so box-marts can't buy and sell them by the millions to make profits, as they do other merchandise. They'd sell mass produced Chinese AK's & SKS's, but that wouldn't portray a good image, would it?
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