WalMart Gray Primer Availability?

jcd132 · Post by **jcd132** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 2:56 pm

I've hit most all of the Walmarts in my town recently, and they've all been out of their low cost gray primer spray paint (the one brand-labeled "ColorPlace"). They do have a number of other colors of this brand still on the shelves, just not the primer. Their website also doesn't list it.

I've used this stuff for years for all my priming and I really like it (and it's also about 3-4 times cheaper than the other name brands).

Does anyone know if they've discontinued it or something?

kenlilly106 · Post by **kenlilly106** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 3:51 pm

Not sure, I asked a similar question to one of the clerks at the local store about a week ago. For a good while the store was out of both the gloss and flat versions of their white and black paint, I like their flat white as an undercoat for a lot of colors.

He said that the supply on the store brand slowed to a a trickle then disappeared and only recently came back with the colors noted above, the store wasn't sure what was going on or if more colors were due to be restocked. He also told me that he'd had a lot of requests for the primer and the store manager was regularly pestering corporate about it.

I'm inclined to think it was some sort of supply issue barring other evidence.

Ken

Rogviler · Post by **Rogviler** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 5:26 pm

I've worked at a couple different retail stores (never Walmart though), and a lot of times the store brand stuff would either stop coming for awhile or we would get 500-1000% more than what our inventory normally requested. Turns out it was usually due to the warehouses doing their inventory counts, so either they would stop ordering new product or they would send everything out to the stores that they could, both so that they wouldn't have to count as much.

So, it could be that, or it could be a manufacturing problem, which is another thing we would run into, especially when the company switched to a different manufacturer.

-Rog

southwestforests · Post by **southwestforests** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:33 pm

Neither grey nor oxide Color Place primers stocked in Boonville. Color selection that brand is about 2/5 what it was a year or so ago.

kenlilly106 · Post by **kenlilly106** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 12:52 pm

Somewhat of an update, the local store restocked their gloss dark blue and green and gloss red sprays recently, no signs of the primer though but this is more paint than they've had all summer.

Ken

jcd132 · Post by **jcd132** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:14 pm

Thanks for the update. I'll have to check again.

kenlilly106 · Post by **kenlilly106** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:49 pm

Saw some primer in a Walmart today in SW VA, they had all the colors noted above plus the primer, the primer was about half gone though.

Ken

Edit - stopped at my local WM store today (9/22), they had a couple of cases of the gray primer on the shelf. Looks like the restock is making its way through the system.

Stu Pidasso · Post by **Stu Pidasso** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:55 pm

I was just at my local WalMart today, and they had plenty of white and grey flat primer. The Colorplace brand.

jcd132 · Post by **jcd132** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:53 pm

Stu Pidasso wrote:I was just at my local WalMart today, and they had plenty of white and grey flat primer. The Colorplace brand.

Yep. Found some primer myself today, finally.