Just when you think Wal-Mart has cornered every market they start selling these:



If I hadn't seen this for myself I would not have believed it. Apparently Walmart is selling Caskets and urns for people and pets on its Wal-Mart.com website. Here's a video about this new service.




Here is some ordering info from Wal-Mart.com on how to order one properly:

You must confirm the shipping address for casket delivery with your funeral home director. Often this address is different from the funeral home itself. Enter the following information for the shipping address at checkout:

* First and last name: name of the deceased
* Company name: name of funeral home or mortuary
* Address: shipping address given to you by the funeral home director
* Phone number: phone number of the mortuary

Please see our Funeral Products Buying Guide and FAQs for more information

Seriously this is an 11 page manual. Here are a few points from it.

Casket Sizes
Our standard size caskets are 6' 7" x 2' x 2', and accommodate most adults.

Oversize and custom size caskets are also available. Oversize caskets include Star Legacy’s "Generous Dimensions," "Royal Star – Wide Body" and "Royal Star White – Wide Body".

Also, you and your family can purchase:

Keepsakes
Keepsakes are miniature urns. They allow family members and friends to share a loved one's remains as personal heirlooms. If internment, burial or scattering is chosen for the deceased, a keepsake is a personal way to remember the individual.


Is it just me or is anyone else creeped out. It made me extremely uncomfortable to be sitting behind a computer screen viewing caskets from Wal-Mart. Also, what is even more eerie is how meticulously Wal-Mart planned the purchasing options out. So that means that it's probably not just some seasonal joke. Some individual at the Wal-Mart corporate office said:

"I have an idea...let's start selling caskets and urns."

And no one said, "You must be joking. Get out! You fired!"

Has it really come to this? Are we really consumers in death? While I know that all of us will eventually one day make our final checkout (pun completely intended) is this really the way we want to go out? One day will "casket" be next to the eggs and milk on our shopping lists? Will we one day go in Wal-Mart and see some teenager named Bobby Jr. lying in a casket to help Grandma figure out which size his Grandpa Jim will need? I don't know about ya'll but this has me seriously worried.

If the day comes that I see Wal-Mart advertising it's new human and livestock birthing sections or one stop adoption agencies (naturally babies and toddlers will be half off) I'm going somewhere to hide.

What do you think about this? And what do you think Wal-Mart will sell next?



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Photo Credit: Walmart.com