Walmart out of filters?

Lawnman23 said:
Step 1 - head to Walmart and buy usual oil of choice.

Step 2 - on the way home, stop by an Advance Auto Parts for a Carquest Premium filter. Alternatively, O’Reilly Auto has the MicroGuard Select filter, same manufacturer.

Step 3 - enjoy having a far superior quality filter than any of the Fram garbage.

Step 4 - perform oil change and keep on keeping on.
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Buy the oil at Advance in the bundle online and your filter comes down in price quite a bit... The Carquest EP Synthetic comes down to around $8 instead of $17 and the Premium comes down just a couple bucks fwir but still better than wasting a trip to Walmart for oil. https://shop.advanceautoparts.com/projects/oil-change
 
Hootbro said:
It is moot now but supposedly the Endurance filters were pulled from Walmarts that had shrinkage issues and replaced with the Purolator Golds and left the Endurance filters in the stores that had less shrinkage.
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I've never seen a Purolator Gold at any of my nearby Walmarts.
 
ATex7239 said:
With this filter situation oil bundles at auto parts store may make pretty good sense for those with undemanding needs/applications. If you were a Supertech oil and filter combo type why make two stops/purchases for about the same things around the same price. Just grab a store bundle for around $30 and carry onI would buy
ATex7239 said:
With this filter situation oil bundles at auto parts store may make pretty good sense for those with undemanding needs/applications. If you were a Supertech oil and filter combo type why make two stops/purchases for about the same things around the same price. Just grab a store bundle for around $30 and carry on.
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I would buy Super Tech oil filters and a name brand oil when I shop at Walmart, Now I buy motor oil bundles at Advance Auto Parts,
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Hootbro said:
I think you are putting a seriousness to something that really is not there to any significant degree with a majority or sizeable portion of Walmart oil filter buyers.

Obviously we see it different.
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How so?

I go to walmart, they have no 7317. On the way home I buy a filter from AAP or wherever. That sale is now gone. Whatever margin they may have made on that sale is gone. They will never get that sale back, its over. This is why Walmart wants there shelves full, and shelf space is coveted by retail good manufacturers?

Oil filter is also in the back of the store to make sure I walk past everything else. Maybe next time some small percentage of people just decide to go to AAP in the first place. This is retailing 101. Walmart knows it.
 
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When filter supplies are put back on the shelves people will start buying them again. It's not like they will never step foot in the store again because they couldn't get the filter they wanted due to a major supply shortage.
 
I'm not a big fan of Walmart. Their produce is constantly low or no stock. Examples are bagged salad and roma tomatoes. Three stores near me do not have the first pair of Wrangler jeans shorts. The have pretty much cornered the market and couldn't care less if you shop there. I try to avoid them as often as possible.
 
MParr said:
I'm not a big fan of Walmart. Their produce is constantly low or no stock. Examples are bagged salad and roma tomatoes. Three stores near me do not have the first pair of Wrangler jeans shorts. The have pretty much cornered the market and couldn't care less if you shop there. I try to avoid them as often as possible.
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W+ has been very good. Since I was paying $60 for Paramount for a year and now I get it included it’s not a hard decision. I get bagged salad and romas and lately the romas are not always in stock.
It isn’t because Walmart doesn’t care it’s people buy it out because it’s cheaper. If anyone cares about competing, it’s Walmart. The only reason they can offer W+ so cheap is to compete with Amazon.
They probably have the jeans ready for shipping.
 
Fair enough said:
W+ has been very good. Since I was paying $60 for Paramount for a year and now I get it included it’s not a hard decision. I get bagged salad and romas and lately the romas are not always in stock.
It isn’t because Walmart doesn’t care it’s people buy it out because it’s cheaper. If anyone cares about competing, it’s Walmart. The only reason they can offer W+ so cheap is to compete with Amazon.
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Explain this.
 
Durdude said:
My local Walmart has been out of many filters for the past 2 months. The auto center guy its been a problem. This is in Chico California. Anybody else have this problem.

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Not really. Our Walmart restocked quickly to replace what they lost with Purolator filters which I used to use a lot many years ago with my big v8 engines etc.... Then Purolator kind of went away for years only to resurface around here on store shelves just recently.
 
The Walmart service uses their own grade of filters not on the shelves, unless you ask them specifically for something else. So if they were using first brands they will be finding someone else. I think they were. Not something Walmart controls or is at fault for.
 
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