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“EDIT: After reading your other comments, it's pretty clear that you think that a product maker, i.e., Alpha Cola, sells to a Walmart shopper and pays Walmart f

“EDIT: After reading your other comments, it's pretty clear that you think that a product maker, i.e., Alpha Cola, sells to a Walmart shopper and pays Walmart for this opportunity. That's not how retail works. Walmart pays Alpha for a bunch of soda, and as part of this Alpha may negotiate an offset (what you've been calling an entitlement) for marketing support like in-store displays and premium shelf space alongside Code.” It depends. With Walmart specifically It depends if it’s owned, dsv, or platform. Sometimes a manufacturer (that’s what we call them, not “product makers”) does sell to a Walmart shopper and pay Walmart for the opportunity. That’s what the Walmart Marketplace is. Same as the Amazon Marketplace. Even DSV contracts are now changing, as e-commerce retailers will have you ship items from your warehouse in their box with their tape. Walmart literally calls these either entitlements or allowances, it depends where (and when) you signed a contract with them.

gamblor956 7y ago
Ah, the cringe. I just realized that you are conflating Walmart's retail operations with its online operations. They are two separate things, and are governed by different sets of practices and contracts. Walmart's physical/retail contracts don't have anything similar to what you've been calling entitlements except in the rare case. Everything else you've called an entitlement is simply decades of standard legal terms, generally straight of the Uniform Commercial Code, none of which are called entitlements. Bigger retailers like Walmart and Target do have "allowances" which are negotiated on a per-contract basis and thus their terms and scope vary by contract. Note: from what I've been able to determine, "entitlements" in the way you've been using them is a CRM term, it's not a term of general use in the law or retail industries.
- themagician 7y ago
  Really mate, you should take care to read more carefully. What you realize, what you are able to determine, whatever ideas you have of what’s normal and what’s not. I hope you at least learned something.

gamblor956 7y ago

Ah, the cringe. I just realized that you are conflating Walmart's retail operations with its online operations. They are two separate things, and are governed by different sets of practices and contracts. Walmart's physical/retail contracts don't have anything similar to what you've been calling entitlements except in the rare case. Everything else you've called an entitlement is simply decades of standard legal terms, generally straight of the Uniform Commercial Code, none of which are called entitlements. Bigger retailers like Walmart and Target do have "allowances" which are negotiated on a per-contract basis and thus their terms and scope vary by contract. Note: from what I've been able to determine, "entitlements" in the way you've been using them is a CRM term, it's not a term of general use in the law or retail industries.

themagician 7y ago
Really mate, you should take care to read more carefully. What you realize, what you are able to determine, whatever ideas you have of what’s normal and what’s not. I hope you at least learned something.