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Well, I guess I was wrong, it is week 41 for Walmart!  Because today that leaked deal, the Xbox 360 Arcade console with $100 Gift Card for $199, it’s now live.  Unfortunately, it looks like it’s available in stores only, but they’ve got it listed on their website, so it doesn’t get more official than that!

Update: I’m hearing the sale start this Saturday, 11/7, despite Walmart already listing it on their site.

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As we draw closer to holiday shopping time we are seeing more and more Black Friday deals revealed.  And while many of those have been issued from the retailer themselves, Walmart looks to be holding out a bit longer, that it until today when an ‘off the chain’ Xbox 360 deal was leaked out.

According to the above screen shot the ‘Rollback’ retailer will be selling an Xbox 360 Arcade console for $199 with a $100 gift card, which essentially brings the total price to $99 (plus tax).  The only thing that doesn’t make sense is that it says ‘weekly events – week 41′.  The problem with that is that we’re already in week 42 of the year, but let’s hope they’re working off a fiscal calendar.

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The Walmart iPhone officially went on sale yesterday.  As expected the 8GB will cost $197 and the 16GB $297. Anything else special about the Walmart phone?  Nope, you’ll just save $3.

[Engadget]

Starting as soon as 12/17 Walmart will begin to sell the Apple iPhone..to its employees only.  It’s actually a ‘pilot program’, where a total of 488 of the Sam Walton retailers will each receive 5 iPhones to sell.  Corporate makes it sound like if they don’t sell all 5 then they don’t get the iPhone for full retail sales, which will start as soon as 12/28.  And no, you won’t pay $99 unlike the rumor we mentioned a few weeks ago.  Nope, instead you’ll drop $197 on an 8GB and $297 on a 16GB plus you’ll need to sign a 2 year AT&T contract.

[Engadget]

Rumor has is that Walmart is set to get a 4GB iPhone.  Yes, the same one, well, not exactly the same one Apple discontinued, but a 3G version.  Since the Walmart shoppers are bargain hunters, or just down right poor, it’s a little more likely and at a price tag of just $99, half the price of the 8GB, it’s not that far fetched, especially since Best Buy sells the iPhone.

Walmart or Costco, someones getting a cheaper iPhone if Apple wants to become the number one provider of smartphones in the US, or perhaps even China (this would only apply to a Walmart scenario).

[BGR]