WALMART: The HIGH Cost Of low Prices

TroyD

Oh, make no mistake, I LOATHE Walmart simply because the mouthbreather factor is off the freakin' charts. I feel cleaner after taking in a double feature at the Peek-a-boob theater with Pee Wee Herman......but, I can't pass up cheap Haynes underwear.

BDT

F1nut

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

aaharvel

best of the thread Troy.

danger boy

Ok, pretend here for just a minute.. i know this would never happen. but, what if Polk decided to boost sales and they were to strike a deal with Wal Mart to sell their entry line of speakers at a good price?

would that change your mind about the evil Wal Mart empire?

What if SVS decided we need a brick and morter store to sell shitload of sub's.. and Wal Mart is just the company to make us super rich.. would that change your mind about Wally Mart?

F1nut

No and no, but you knew that already.

madmax

If I didn't shop at walmart I couldn't support my starbucks habit.
madmax

cfrizz

Troy, WAAAAAAAAAA!!!!:D

As for the rest of you, Quit your whining!:rolleyes:

Sooner or later there will be someone new on the horizon to knock Walmart off of its high horse.

HiPerf360

.....nevermind

Kris Siegel

I never liked Wal-Mart much. Every Wal-Mart I've walked in looks trashy (kind of how K-Mart was) and the employees are never helpful. I also never liked the fact that they feel they know better than their customers by censoring their CDs; I don't need to be protected by Wal-Mart from buying "inappropriate" CDs.

I like Target though. It's never as crowded, it looks nicer, they generally pay their employees more and they're usually helpful. Plus it has almost the samethings.

unc2701 wrote:

Them: "we want 100,000 packs of tshirts at $3 each"
Dad: "Ok"
[they make tshirts, put them on truck as truck is pulling into walmart warehouse, he gets a call]
Them: "We're gonna pay you $2.75 each"
Dad: "uhh.... you said $3"
Them: "Well, we don't want them anyway... and cancel all our other orders"

Fruit of the loom (not my dad's company) went bankrupt due, in part, to this ****.

This isn't real. If it is, then that company deserved to go out of business.

If you have a contract in place for $3 each, Wal-Mart has to pay that or the company would sue and win (plus lawyer fees I'm sure). If the company really didn't get a writen contract... well they were doomed from the beginning.

Frank Z

I won't set foot in a Wal-mart. I've seen first hand the damage they do.

whitetruk

Frank Z wrote:

I won't set foot in a Wal-mart. I've seen first hand the damage they do.

AMEN

unc2701

Kris Siegel wrote:

This isn't real. If it is, then that company deserved to go out of business.

If you have a contract in place for $3 each, Wal-Mart has to pay that or the company would sue and win (plus lawyer fees I'm sure). If the company really didn't get a writen contract... well they were doomed from the beginning.

Nope, totally real. Written contract and everything. And sure they could have sued walmart and gotten the money for those t-shirts, but Walmart sells over half their production, so the written contract didn't matter much when they had to contemplate losing everything. I've over-simplified how it went down (they went into months of negotiations, etc), but that's a pretty standard MO for walmart.

ND13

It's really not that much different than Microsoft's stranglehold on the computer industry.

brettw22

unc2701 wrote:

Nope, totally real. Written contract and everything. And sure they could have sued walmart and gotten the money for those t-shirts, but Walmart sells over half their production, so the written contract didn't matter much when they had to contemplate losing everything. I've over-simplified how it went down (they went into months of negotiations, etc), but that's a pretty standard MO for walmart.

While Wal-Mart definitely acted unethically, any company that repies on a mostly singular outlet (walmart) is putting themselves into a corner.

bobman1235

brettw22 wrote:

While Wal-Mart definitely acted unethically, any company that repies on a mostly singular outlet (walmart) is putting themselves into a corner.

... and nobody puts baby in a corner.

aaharvel

bobman1235 wrote:

... and nobody puts baby in a corner.

Swayze?

madmax

bobman1235 wrote:

... and nobody puts baby in a corner.

What a great quote! Just watched the movie last week, awesome!
madmax

MacLeod

unc2701 wrote:

Nope, totally real. Written contract and everything. And sure they could have sued walmart and gotten the money for those t-shirts, but Walmart sells over half their production, so the written contract didn't matter much when they had to contemplate losing everything. I've over-simplified how it went down (they went into months of negotiations, etc), but that's a pretty standard MO for walmart.

Ive heard of them doing this before. Rubermaid went round and round with them about this crap too.

Ive heard of several people agreeing to sell Walmart something for X dollars and then Walmart all of a sudden telling them to forget it because they can get it cheaper thru another manufacturer.

I am a vendor for Walmart and I know how horrible they treat vendors. The term "red headed step child" doesnt even begin to cover it.

Some vendors like Coke and Pepsi are in their stores for 5-7 hours at a time and when they would take their lunch they would, naturally, go into the huge Walmart lunchroom and eat their lunch there. Well Walmart didnt like this so several of them, not all, banned vendors from the company lunchrooms. For no other reason than to be ****.

And there is no compromising with them either. You either do what they demand, no matter how stupid or hard it is on you, or they kick all your product out of their stores.

Its no coincidence they have such a bad reputation and are having to take out full page ads in major newspapers saying how great a company they are.

Demiurge

Speak of the freakin' devil! NAACP says to boycott (but not really) Target. lol (trust me, I'm no fan of the NAACP)

Of the 50 companies contacted by the NAACP, five ignored the survey, including four retailers: Dillard's Inc.; Kohl's Corp.; Sears, Roebuck and Co.; and Target Corp. All were given Fs for not answering. The other company that failed to answer was Excel, a telecommunications company; it also received an F.

Gordon called on blacks to stop shopping at Target, in particular, until they answer the NAACP's questions - though he stopped short of calling the action a boycott.

"They didn't even care to respond to our survey," he said. "Stay out of their stores."

The NAACP focused on Target because they're one of the nation's most prominent national retailers, said John C. White, NAACP spokesman. However, the group does not plan to picket or leaflet Target, but will rely on word of mouth, he said.

A Target spokeswoman said via e-mail that the company opted out of the survey "because Target views diversity as being inclusive of all people from all different backgrounds, not just one group." The NAACP survey asks only about blacks.

Someone making a video about Target could include half of the story and call them racist if they wanted to. Videos on the internet don't always reflect the whole truth, hell videos on the nightly news don't always do that. That's the point.

MacLeod

Target wrote:

Target views diversity as being inclusive of all people from all different backgrounds, not just one group

Effing brilliant!

Ill be shopping at Target more from now on.

Glad to see more people standing up to the NAALCP

aaharvel

Target owes the NAACP nothing. Let them ****. There's bigger fish to fry than Target in this world, and all because of a survey that is mutually exclusive at best?!? :rolleyes:

Mike682

A Target spokeswoman said via e-mail that the company opted out of the survey "because Target views diversity as being inclusive of all people from all different backgrounds, not just one group." The NAACP survey asks only about blacks.

Excellent!!!!! That Target spokesman is 100% correct.

The survey will probably lead to a boycott anyway if the naacp doesn't like the participant's responses

Demiurge

Indeed!

MacLeod

Ive never heard of them before.

Demiurge

Go go Mr. 9000.

bobman1235

Demiurge wrote:

Speak of the freakin' devil! NAACP says to boycott (but not really) Target. lol (trust me, I'm no fan of the NAACP)

<snip>The NAACP focused on Target because they're one of the nation's most prominent national retailers, said John C. White, NAACP spokesman.<snip>

Is anyone else amused that the spokesperson for the NAACP is named John WHITE

brettw22

Sadly, there's nothing ha ha funny about fanatics.

TroyD

The NAACP has been boycotting the entire state of SC for about a decade now.

We are virtually on the brink of collapse.

BDT

heiney9

Zero wrote:

I'd love to hear what you all feel about Audio Advisor.

This company has screwed over lots of people in the industry. A contract is established and overwhelming amounts of orders are placed from audio advisor to company "X". Company "X" is over-joyed, invests in expanding their facilities to keep up with this demand. Audio Advisor than under-cuts the price drastically dragging company "X" right into the dirt.

You are comparing Audio Advisor to Walmart . I don't think AA has anywhere near the clout Walmart has. I'd guess if AA had 0.05% the clout Wlamart has I'd be very suprised. Perhaps you are talking about a situation with a small company with limited outlets and options.

Please expand on how a situation with AA can be on the same scale as Walmart.

H9

PolkThug

heiney9 wrote:

Please expand on how a situation with AA can be on the same scale as Walmart.

H9

He doesn't say its on the same scale. Bottom line is that company "X" got screwed.