WalMart said it was sales related which sounds bogus to me since MSRs are the most popular rifle, or at least one of them, being sold in the country today. It was PR related and they wanted to avoid any negative publicity at the time of the next mass shooting. That's just my opinion, but I don't see how it made sense from a business/economic perspective.
Normally I would say their sandbox, their rules. It's the way Dicks did it cancelling existing orders, even preventing people from picking up their orders after the were informed their orders had arrived.
Just want to make sure I'm reading that correctly- so Walmart stopped AR sales because they weren't able to turn a profit on them? This despite numerous other retailers being able to do precisely that? No, no, no. It was that they didn't want to be associated with selling evil black rifles. Their own public statement on the matter said it was because their typical firearms customers were hunters and they were going to cater solely to them. It's laughable any retail giant would permanently stop sales of any product based on a brief sales trend. Walmart can make a profit on ARs. Walmart can make a profit selling ice to Eskimos. They choose not to because of the negative image the media has created of ARs. They don't want to be associated with it every time there's a mass shooting. That aversion may be smart business-wise, but it further jeopardizes the future status of MSRs.
