Walmart Caskets For Sale Online, Starting At $999 (PHOTOS)

Never mind its typical merchandise, the world's largest retailer has a new item on the shelf.

You can now purchase Walmart caskets, a development that could threaten funeral homes. Beginning at $999 for lower-end models, all 27 caskets in the Walmart online inventory cost less than $2,000, except the "Sienna Bronze Casket," which sells for $3,199. The caskets come from Star Legacy Funeral Network, Inc., of McHenry, Ill., and ship within 48 hours.

Blogs are having fun with this one. Several noted it's just in time for Halloween. One pointed out that this gives people a chance to live eternally with low prices. The topic is popping up on forums too.

Would you rest the soul of a loved one with a product purchased from Walmart?

PHOTOS:

27 Walmart Caskets Are Up For Sale

The Most Expensive Walmart Casket Is The Sienna Bronze Casket

Walmart Caskets Can Be Purchased For As Low As $999

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/28/wal-mart-caskets-urns-off_n_337366.html

Comments

[MsLiz]

02:36 AM on 11/26/2009

Don't waste money on the deceased.

[Siebenstein]

03:26 AM on 11/15/2009

Walmart's contribution to the healthcare crisis---d/i/.e fast !

[Siebenstein]

03:26 AM on 11/15/2009

Walmart's contribution to the healthcare crisis---die fast !

[jessicajuliette]

02:04 AM on 10/31/2009

BLUE LIGHT SPECIAL TO DIE FOR...

[jessicajuliette]

01:57 AM on 10/31/2009

BLUE LIGHT SPECIAL TO DIE FOR....

[jessicajuliette]

01:56 AM on 10/31/2009

BLUE LIGHT SPECIAL I CAN LIVE WITH...

[jessicajuliette]

01:33 AM on 10/31/2009

now HERE'S a blue light special i can live with..to die for???

[DixieMelody]

12:57 AM on 10/31/2009

Hasn't CostCo been selling coffins for awhile now?

[DFL]

06:17 PM on 10/30/2009

I could buy a hearse and start a bargain funeral service, pick up the casket at WM and then pick up the stiff at the hospital then take him or her to the cemetary for a service there then they would be buried, no funeral home needed.

[DFL]

06:14 PM on 10/30/2009

If my name was Ken I could buy a used hearse and start Kens bargain funeral service, pick up the casket at wal mart then pick up the stiff at the hospital and take him or her to the cemetary for a small service with a pastor then it would be buried, no funeral home needed!

[iwasblindtoletyougo]

05:55 PM on 10/30/2009

REAL unemployment is DOUBLE the 'official' statistics. Government has been playing major games with all stats for a while now - both parties are to blame.

good articles to http://financeopinionss.blogspot.com

Also Barney Frank sucks.

[ResidualSelfImage]

02:56 PM on 10/30/2009

You could bang together a box for $100 in a couple of hours.

[Lyndependent]

02:56 PM on 10/30/2009

The best you can get from a funeral home for $999 is a fiberboard box, covered with material. It's pitiful... These look like cadillacs by comparison...

We recently spent $4,000 for one that was lower quality than any pictured here... And then they charged another $3,000 for preparation, transportation and incidentals... And that was being as conservative as possible...

It's about time the funeral homes had some competition.

[sandiegoconservative]

02:45 AM on 10/31/2009

Absolutely correct. I actually sold cemetery property for awhile after college and I made 10% on the sale price of the space, the memorial marker, the outer burial container and 25% on merchandise, and funeral packages. I could eat at a nice steak restaurant almost every night out while working there. It is amazing the cost of even a "budget" funeral.

Not to mention the costs of "placement" of the memorial marker, the burial container and the fees for actually digging the grave! All earned me income.

The least expensive package was for people of the Jewish faith because the spaces were smaller, the caskets were all wood for natural decomposition and the burial container did not have a bottom to speed up the decomposition process. Even that ran about 6.5k out the door.

[JFD8]

02:08 PM on 10/30/2009

When you're going under six feet,
Our coffin deals cannot be beat;
From cradle to grave
At Wal-Mart you save
When we mark your checkout receipt.

News Short n' Sweet by JFD8
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[tuberider]

11:39 AM on 10/30/2009

Attention shoppers! : Fresh human livers and kidneys on aisle 6 !

[yemaya]

01:03 PM on 10/30/2009

Jeez, no kidding! Does Walmart know something we don't?