Walmart Stores in USA, Still Avaya?

[TheMitelGuy]

Happy Sunday to everyone...

Just a question - is WalMart still installing Avaya systems in the USA stores? I think they were installing Avaya here in Canada, but I think they actually changed to a different switch manufacture (I think it may have been Toshiba, I will have to look into further detail). I was just wondering what is being seen down in the U.S.A.?

 

[intrigrant]

Does not sounds like a technical question does it?
And it does not interest me a bit to be honest.

 

[pmcook]

Dunno what the back end is. I don't like Walmart stores but when I do shop there I see Coretelco analog phones. I do know they never paid a bill for installing wiereless at one of their stores. F them.

 

[biv343]

I try to avoid Walmart if at all possible, but the few times I've been into stores around here they have Cisco phones.

 

[RLSbutton]

You should check out my phone blog, lol, I feature phones from all stores I visit and take a photo and write a blurb about it.

Wal Mart in the USA is exclusively Cisco. Walmart used to install Merlin Magix Legend systems in their stores in the late 1990s and in the early 1990s they used Comdial Executech systems.

Before that I think it was 1a2 with aiphone intercoms, but that goes way back.

Sometime around 2010, Wal Mart made the switch from Avaya to Cisco. Most phones on the sales floor have been removed and floor team members use Cisco wireless handsets and third party non telephone system walkie talkies in lieu of overhead paging. Wal Mart is afraid of overhead paging since some knucklehead customer got on the PA and said something racially wrong on the speakers. The only stores I see phones mounted on columns are busy supercenters and they are usually the Cortelco analog sets.

Some of the super busy supercenters still do overhead pages though, including one I was in recently that tied the Cisco paging into the Evac fire alarm system. The overhead pages come out of the fire alarm strobes.





Joseph Sus Jr. Nortel Emetrotel Consultant

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