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Posted in music on August 4, 2011

now Walmart will sell tickets too

Walmart

Walmart announced yesterday that it has teamed up with Ticketmaster to sell event tickets in 45 of its stores.

The touch screen kiosks will be available at 26 New Jersey stores, 18 New York stores and one store in Pennsylvania.

Ticketmaster, a division of Live Nation Entertainment, sells tickets for family entertainment, concerts and sporting events.

"By integrating ticketing into Walmart stores, we are able to offer fans this very convenient way to learn about upcoming events, purchase and take home tickets without leaving their neighborhood," said Nathan Hubbard, CEO of Ticketmaster. -[NJ.com]

Hopefully the stores add extra security the next time Justin Bieber tickets go on sale.

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posted at 1:02 PM on August 4, 2011 in music | Comments (38)

Comments (38)

Cool! Will they be selling tickets for the Youth Lagoon show at Glasslands?

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 1:05 PM

reminds me of the days when you could buy tickets at Tower Records.

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 1:05 PM

perfect timing...

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 1:06 PM

and you guys are mad about House of Vans.

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 1:21 PM

great, so now i can go get my Bruce tickets at the same time as a 40 lb box of frozen chicken fried steak and 50 gal drum of grape drink. oh, and i'll need some new pants and belts soon.

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 1:23 PM

BLASPHEMY!!! What has this industry come to?!

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 1:23 PM

Thank god! It is so hard to use computers!

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 1:27 PM

James Murphy is at Frohawks house with Nancy Whang. They're all pissed that so many show's tickets will now "go to scalpers".

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 1:34 PM

cults are doing a 45 date in-store tour to celebrate.

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 1:37 PM

now if only we could get a walmart in NYC. i'd have a place to buy all my paper towels and event tickets.

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 1:37 PM


Is this how they sold New York City on allowing Wal Mart here. Fuck U Bloomberg you fuckin suck man

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 1:42 PM

hahahaha this is hilarious!

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 1:43 PM

Ha I did buy a ticket for Band of Horses when they played Williamsbur Waterfront at the Walmart in Watchung a year ago...ticket was on a receipt not ticket stock! A receipt with a barcode!

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 1:48 PM

What kind of convenience charge will they have for charging enabling dumb hicks to conveniently buy tickets where they do all of their shopping?

PS - If you shop at Wal-Mart you are helping destroy our country.

Posted by The Mighty KC | August 4, 2011 1:56 PM

I shop at Walmart and K-mart because my parents cut me off on my monthly allowance.

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 1:58 PM

will they sell tickets to shows with bands that have the word fuck in them.

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 1:59 PM

^^^ 1:56 = dumb hicks that conveniently buys tickets where he does all of (of) his shopping

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 2:00 PM

what is this Podunk, Iowa? Fuck this...

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 2:16 PM

will they still charge convenience fees?

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 2:16 PM

So the typical Walmart shopper doesn't have a computer?

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 2:19 PM

1:48 here...when I bought my ticket at walmart it was because the show was the same day and I didn't want to go without a ticket in my hand, nor pay the processing charge or wait for a will call ticket...I refuse to do the ticketfast bs!

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 2:38 PM

and the service charge was still significant but slightly less than online

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 2:39 PM

Still less evil than Bowery Presents fast growing east coast monopoly.

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 2:54 PM

can't wait to see the fucking retards that shop at wal-mart try to use these kiosks.

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 3:21 PM

I dunno 3:21, I don't think that you'll need to go very far to see the biggest retard in this city

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 3:24 PM

This is truly the first harbinger of the apocalypse

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 4:08 PM

HOW ARE THEY NOT A MONOPOLY!?!

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 4:25 PM

I wish they sold tickets at Target or Whole Foods.

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 4:29 PM

If this was at Trader Joe's you yuppies would eat this up!

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 4:31 PM

Consequences will never be the same...

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 5:48 PM

who cares.. this affects no one who reads BV.. its like KFC and Pizza Hut merging..


Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 6:11 PM

Seems like this'll be about as useful inside a Walmart as masculinity is in Williamsburg.

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 9:40 PM

next they'll be selling weed in the parking lot.

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2011 10:10 PM

Walmart doesn't sell hummus. So why would I even go there?

Posted by Anonymous | August 5, 2011 4:19 AM

next they will be selling tickets at mcdonalds and kfc

Posted by Anonymous | August 5, 2011 5:57 AM

WalMart has a wide array of hummus for all your chickpea needs. True fact.

Posted by Anonymous | August 5, 2011 6:22 AM

"great, so now i can go get my Bruce tickets at the same time as a 40 lb box of frozen chicken fried steak and 50 gal drum of grape drink. oh, and i'll need some new pants and belts soon."

Ah, the Walmart diet.

Posted by Anonymous | August 5, 2011 10:16 AM

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