Wal-Mart Now Selling Caskets & Urns Online
Last Update: 10/28/2009 4:49 pm
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BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- The world's largest retailer wants to keep its customers even after they die. Wal-Mart has started selling caskets on its Web site at prices that undercut most funeral homes, long the major seller of caskets. The move follows a similar one by discount rival Costco, which also sells caskets on its site. Wal-Mart quietly put up about 15 caskets and dozens of urns on its Web site last week. Prices range from $999 for models like "Dad Remembered" and "Mom Remembered" steel caskets to the mid-level $1,699 "Executive Privilege." All are less than $2,000, except for the Sienna Bronze Casket, which sells for $3,199. Caskets ship within 48 hours. Federal law requires funeral homes to accept third-party caskets. Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
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