Thanks Wal-Mart ... I guess

I hate Wal-Mart. As a retail wife, I have learned that Wal-Mart is evil. Yes, they may be less expensive and have everything anyone could ever possibly need and yes, this may be really convenient. HOWEVER ... they are a giant evil retailer that is in the business of putting the little man out of business. Pair that with the fact that almost all of the Wal-Marts I have had the pleasure of shopping have been dirty and/or stinky and/or WAY too crowded and it's just not my favorite place to go. Tonight, however, I had a problem that only Wal-Mart could solve and it made me so happy I had to share. I may hate the place but I do enjoy saving a buck or two and in this case, I saved $41.65 without stepping foot in their store. Megan is almost crawling and we don't have baby gates yet. We want black ones to match our staircase spindles and the stores don't carry them in stock (jerks) so I have to order them online. I've been shopping around on the internet all week and reading installation instructions etc. trying to figure out what gates will work and how much we're going to have to spend. I finally found some gates I think will work for us at Babies R Us but they wanted $38 to ship them! WTF?!?! I did a search for those gates and Wal-Mart had them for a few bucks cheaper. The kicker is I might have actually spent a couple extra bucks to buy them from Babies R Us (yes, I am stupid and I probably would have ordered other stuff while I was shopping online there too) but the shipping was just outrageous!! Wal-Mart only wanted $2.91. WOW! HUGE difference! Seriously!! I found some other helpful websites with reasonably priced gates but I don't know what they charged for shipping because after I found the gates I needed at WM for a whopping $2.91 s&h price, why continue to look? I don't know how they do it, especially since they're paying $4/gallon in gas to deliver them to me, but I'm not complaining. Not about this right now anyways. ;-)