Good for WalMart. Competition for funeral supplies is long overdue.
Damn straight!
Funeral salesmen, uh, funeral directors make used car salesmen look like wee school girls when it comes to hardball sales tactics.
One does not have to pay exhorbatant prices for a casket.
For example, when mother died, there was not a casket in Tampa that qualified as a suitable casket for a Jewish burial. Such caskets are all wood - no nails or metal.
So - I went to Home Depot and purchased sufficient 1x12” plain pine boards, some dowels, and a dowel jig. Add a drill and some bits, and I successfully made her casket that night.
Mother was buried as she wished.
On a slightly different note, for those with a fondness for satire, Google the lyrics to the Chad Mitchel Trio’s “Funeral Director of the Year Award”.