5 ms·

Your local store vets products?

jfim 7y ago
Depending on the size of the local store, it should be sourcing its goods through a reputable distributor or have its own supply chain that connects directly to manufacturers (eg. for Walmart and other large chain stores). It's not impossible to get counterfeits, but it's a lot more reliable than marketplace sellers with no real brand to protect.
Mountain_Skies 7y ago
Wal-Mart is notorious for their knowledge of the supply chain for their vendors, whether the vendor wanted to give up that information or not. On the other side of things, I've seen some pretty questionable items in dollar stores including food products that weren't labeled for the US market. The gas station near my house buys some of their products from Costco and breaks the packs into individual items, complete with "Not labeled for individual sale" warnings. Hopefully Costco is like Wal-Mart when it comes to supply chain knowledge.
- Frost1x 7y ago
  Large brick and mortar stores get a bad knock because they provide cheap junk options. They also provide a lot of well researched reliable products for just a touch more. Say what you will about Walmart but they don't haphazardly choose what they throw in their stores--there's only so much physical space and they have to make chooses their local market will continue to return and buy more/other products.
- angelbar 7y ago
  "Not labeled for individual sale" has any legality?
  - sethhochberg 7y ago
    Generally thats exactly what it means - the individual products don't have nutrition info or something else which would be required for them to be sold by themselves by law.
  - adolph 7y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner
- jsight 7y ago
  And yet Wal-Mart still sells homeopathic remedies and tons of other low-quality products.
  - californical 7y ago
    But at least you're going to get what you bought -- Walmart may sell snake oil, but at least they don't repackage snail oil and sell it as the former
masonic 7y ago
My local store doesn't buy its inventory from a tweaker out of the back of his 1980s van.

jfim 7y ago

Depending on the size of the local store, it should be sourcing its goods through a reputable distributor or have its own supply chain that connects directly to manufacturers (eg. for Walmart and other large chain stores). It's not impossible to get counterfeits, but it's a lot more reliable than marketplace sellers with no real brand to protect.

Mountain_Skies 7y ago

Wal-Mart is notorious for their knowledge of the supply chain for their vendors, whether the vendor wanted to give up that information or not. On the other side of things, I've seen some pretty questionable items in dollar stores including food products that weren't labeled for the US market. The gas station near my house buys some of their products from Costco and breaks the packs into individual items, complete with "Not labeled for individual sale" warnings. Hopefully Costco is like Wal-Mart when it comes to supply chain knowledge.

Frost1x 7y ago
Large brick and mortar stores get a bad knock because they provide cheap junk options. They also provide a lot of well researched reliable products for just a touch more. Say what you will about Walmart but they don't haphazardly choose what they throw in their stores--there's only so much physical space and they have to make chooses their local market will continue to return and buy more/other products.
angelbar 7y ago
"Not labeled for individual sale" has any legality?
- sethhochberg 7y ago
  Generally thats exactly what it means - the individual products don't have nutrition info or something else which would be required for them to be sold by themselves by law.
- adolph 7y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner
jsight 7y ago
And yet Wal-Mart still sells homeopathic remedies and tons of other low-quality products.
- californical 7y ago
  But at least you're going to get what you bought -- Walmart may sell snake oil, but at least they don't repackage snail oil and sell it as the former

masonic 7y ago

My local store doesn't buy its inventory from a tweaker out of the back of his 1980s van.