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This is not at all surprising if you know anything about putting a product into retail: Big box retailers have suppliers pretty much literally bent over a barre
by dfsegoat 10y ago
This is not at all surprising if you know anything about putting a product into retail: Big box retailers have suppliers pretty much literally bent over a barrel (unless you are PG, General Mills, etc).
If your product does not sell through (volume in units) to their satisfaction in ea. / every store or region, typically you will be contractually bound to do almost all of the following:
* You will pay them to buy all product back
* You will pay logistics / restocking fees to remove the product
* You will have to figure out how to put all that product back onto your books.
Compound that with a highly perishable, refrigerated product - and of course this happens all the time.
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- xenadu02 10y agoThis is all true and it is even worse in many cases. Wonder what those "don't return this item to the store" notices are about? Most big box retailers have automatic refund percentages and penalties built in so every returned item gets placed in the trash compactor and the manufacurer eats the cost plus a penalty. Too many returns result in escalating penalties.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Compound that with a highly perishable, refrigerated product AFAIK, "Just Mayo" is not a highly perishable, refrigerated product. It is a refrigerate-after-opening product sold off regular, non-refrigerated grocery shelves, just like normal mayonnaise.