I have used an insulin pump for the last 4-5 years, but ordered pens and syringes from an online pharmacy (OptumRX) for years before that? I ordered some pen needles I think from them just a couple of years ago as a backup, if the pump goes down for a day or two.... what I always thought was weird in a way (although I kind of understand it) is that unless it's changed, you can buy all the insulin you want without a prescription, but need a prescription for the syringes.
Or staying home and drawing more unemployment than they can earn.
Not really. Each Walmart has a certain amount of money set aside for local "store manager's" clearance items. I remember hearing about the negotiations over who gets the money for the month. The store you were at probably had too many of the Buckmasters or that one had sat in the case too long and they wanted to get rid of it. The store I used to work at had a collection of orphaned boxes of ammo that we just couldn't get rid of--the one that sticks out in my mind was a box of Speer Gold Dot in .40 S&W that was $29.97. My department manager tried to get those boxes clearanced every so often but the store manager refused to give us any of his clearance money for ammo. Needless to say, those boxes of ammo are long gone now--either clearanced as part of the great Walmart wokeness purge or bought up during the pandemic ammo panic of 2020.
Walmart guns are displayed all the time. The gun displays (either the ones behind the counter or the gun towers at some stores) have thick shatterproof glass and are alarmed during the non-operating hours of sporting goods. I remember that on Christmas Eve, there was a time after which we could not go behind the sporting good counter as a proximity alarm was activated and any movement within that area would set it off.
