I don’t think buying huge numbers of cell phones at Wal Mart has been going on that long, and definitely not going on legitimately or unquestioningly. Didn’t they change the policy a few years back to a limit of 2 in one purchase ? Before that it was 3 or 4.
You could count the number of middle eastern men in Douglas County, Missouri on NO fingers. You have to be going to Ava, Missouri to get there. It is hardly on the way to anywhere that would cause you to just “pop in” at Walmart at 0630.
I think some of our cohort here on FR are being pretty naive.