Walmart Is Now Selling Caskets Online, EKK!!!!!

[Craftsman]

http://www.walmart.com/search/search-ng.do?search_constraint=0&ic=48_0&search_query=casket&Find.x=34&Find.y=15

[Blue-Jay]

1. Can I get one with the WalMart smiley face on it?

[Craftsman]

2. Always Low Prices, about 6 feet under

[derby378]

3. There's a discount casket store just down the street from our home

So I guess I'm used to the concept already.

[tammywammy]

4. Costco has sold caskets for years. n/t

[Kalyke]

14. Are they branded as "Caskco?"

:hi:

[chatnoir]

35. lol

:D

[Laf.La.Dem.]

5. I assume made out of the country

China??

[Blue-Jay]

7. It's not like the lead-based paint is going to kill anyone.

[tammywammy]

8. 1 is made in Canada, the rest the United States

It's listed, and I looked since you asked.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

6. Some funeral homes will not assume the risk of "cheap caskets"

So they will not handle them. I think it's a load of crap.
What are the odds a casket will fall apart in under a week?
I think it's just a cover to get distressed peopl eto buy their overpriced death boxes.

[woodsprite]

16. In my mom's end-of-life planning, she printed out a casket that

she found in perusing the web. I had a printout of it when we went to the funeral home to show him the type/style. The last thing on my mind was price. We were there to make arrangements after she died and I showed him the casket she wanted. He said "Well, we don't have that particular one. We use this manufacturer, but since you have the price listed, I'll discount the casket to meet that printed cost."

Who have ever thought of 'shopping' casket prices? I hadn't. I was taken off guard that they discounted it by $750. My SIL had gotten rid of the gown my Mom had chosen to wear, so I had to go find something. The funeral home didn't have any 'funeral dress/negligee' that fit my Mom's color/design wish - we would have had to settle for something. I ended up finding one that she would have loved at Macy's that was marked down at the register from $159 to $17. She was always so worried we'd spend too much on her funeral. The family joked that she may have had a hand in guiding the process. ;)

[Spinzonner]

17. Well, it's not like they can sell them with a lifetime gurarantee

[Contrary1]

9. Save money...

Live Die better.

[SacredCow]

10. I can't buy one where I live....

It's illegal for anyone other than a licensed mortuary to sell caskets in Louisiana.

[Skidmore]

11. They're just looking forward, anticipating

market share. You know, we Boomer are going to start to keel over soon, perhaps with a little help from the insurance industry and its bought and paid for legislators.

[DURHAM D]

12. Sorry but I don't have a problem with this.

I can not imagine being able to come up with a defense for the ridiculously high cost of a burial in this country. They make survivors feel guilty and empty your checkbook. I would rather swim with hungry sharks.

I don't like Walmart but I prefer them over the funeral homes.

[Myrina]

13. Pretty soon, they will have every dime we make ...

... from cribs and diapers, through to caskets. Our entire lives, all of our income. To Wal Mart.

Ain't unfettered capitalism grand? :(

[MindPilot]

15. So how does Wal-Mart's law school compare to

Costco?

[Nye Bevan]

18. Good for them.

Bad news for funeral homes that make huge profit margins from ridiculously overpriced caskets by guilt-tripping the family of the deceased when they are grieving and vulnerable.

[Dreamer Tatum]

21. But you're putting mom & pop leeches out of business nt

[aikoaiko]

19. I already told my wife -- no coffin -- just lay me out on a table and then turn me into ashes.

If my funeral costs more than 1k, I will be an unhappy ghost.

[nykym]

20. Now that's what I call

Cradle to Grave marketing!

[Vinca]

22. What the heck is a "memory tube?"

[eShirl]

23. I'm surprised they don't carry a casket for NASCAR fans

http://www.casketxpress.com/item/RaceCarArtCaskets.html

"Casket Xpress - Highest Quality - Lowest Prices - Quickest Service!"
It better be quick, dammit.

[callous taoboy]

24. Just put me in a burlap sack and plant me under banyan tree.

[Hubert Flottz]

25. I looked for those in the pots and pans department and

didn't see them.

[eShirl]

26. try the Tupperware aisle

[slackmaster]

33. Try aisle 3 in the Grocery Department - Coffee, Tea and Spices

[Hubert Flottz]

36. The first place I looked was the tire and battery department

I had my heart set on a nice six handled take-out box with a hood-scoop on the lid, in case I OD on those blue pills and can't make it to the doctor in six hours!

[The Straight Story]

27. Can I return later if it is not comfortable enough?

:)

[cayanne]

28. So does Costco

n/t

[woo me with science]

29. They'll probably decompose before the body and leach mercury & melamine into the ground. nt

[fascisthunter]

30. profiting from the dead

a niche that never goes away. I guess due to all the poverty here in the US, Walmart believes regular folks will need a discount to purchase caskets for themselves. How touching of Walmart, always thinking of the consumer.

[tammywammy]

31. Do you feel the same about Costco? They sell caskets as well. n/t

[rucky]

32. Those were supposed to be saved for the employees...

they took life insurance policies out on.

[question everything]

34. Why not? Mourners often shell thousands of dollars

because, in their grief, they are in no position to search for something that will naturally decompose in the soil.

Does one really need those fancy metal caskets to be buried for eternity?