Dichlor - where to buy?

[dewdrop519]

Where the heck do you buy Dichlor?
We put up our pool a couple days ago, filled it with water, and have been adding bleach. Went to Walmart and they have a whole aisle of pool chemicals but everything that says 'shock' is cal-hypo(or something like that). I'm looking for the main ingredient of "dichloro-s-triazinetrione" mentioned in pool school that we should use for the first 4 days. I think we had this same problem last year and my husband ended up going to the pool store, came home with something, dumped it all in per their instructions - end result: we ended up draining the pool.
Is there a big box store we can buy this at, or do we have to venture back in to the evil pool store, or order online? We don't need a lot, and we may not get to swim for a week or so.

 

[257WbyMag]

You may have to go to a pool store to get it. I know that where I am located in Texas, there is only one place to buy it other than a pool store and that is at Kroger. I'm not sure what your store situation is there though. Wal-Mart has the same selection here as you describe. Tablets and the rest is all cal-hypo.

 

[NWMNMom]

Sams Club, Walmart, Homr Depot. Shock is not really a product but a process, most of the items thst say that in the nane have what you need. I would just use bleach and skip dichlor. Buy some stabilizer.

 

[Isaac-1]

Here in Louisiana it is sold at Lowes. Just be careful they have it in regular and super strength, but the super strength also contains copper.

Ike