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If you don’t put your product in Walmart is your product guaranteed to be a failure? Have you ever heard of anybody releasing a wildly successful app and it no

If you don’t put your product in Walmart is your product guaranteed to be a failure? Have you ever heard of anybody releasing a wildly successful app and it not being in the Apple app store? Are you aware that there are many many many more stores like Walmart than there are stores like the Apple app store?

scarface74 6y ago
If you don’t put your product in Walmart is your product guaranteed to be a failure? Tell that to all of the low end TV manufacturers, game systems (see Sega), toy manufacturers, and back in the day musicians who went out of their way to create an edited version just for Walmart.
- wayneftw 6y ago
  That proves nothing. Those products would not have failed if they were not in Walmart because there are plenty of other outlets instead of just two.
  - scarface74 6y ago
    So where else can toy manufacturers go in 2020 to sell their toys in retail? The music labels and movie studios knew they couldn’t be successful before digital without Walmart
    - wayneftw 6y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_superstores https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_superstores
      - scarface74 6y ago
        None of those other stores sell toys and a few are bankrupt in the US.
        wayneftw 6y ago
        You couldn't me more wrong. Target? Best Buy? Costco? Amazon??? And the list doesn't end there - even Khol's sells toys - https://www.kohls.com/catalog/toys.jsp?CN=Department:Toys&searchTerm=toys&submit-search=web-regular https://www.kohls.com/catalog/toys.jsp?CN=Department:Toys&se... Try harder.
        scarface74 6y ago
        You can’t walk into an Amazon store and buy toys. Retail is still a lot larger than e-commerce especially for kids who like to browse. Kohl’s is tiny compared to Walmart and doing distribution only in Kohl’s is a non starter. Not to mention the catalog is online - not physical stores. Best Buy sells electronic games but there is far more to toys than that.
        dragonwriter 6y ago
        > None of those other stores sell toys B&N, Target, Costco, IKEA, and a number of others on the list do, in fact, sell toys in their brick and mortar stores.

scarface74 6y ago

If you don’t put your product in Walmart is your product guaranteed to be a failure? Tell that to all of the low end TV manufacturers, game systems (see Sega), toy manufacturers, and back in the day musicians who went out of their way to create an edited version just for Walmart.

wayneftw 6y ago
That proves nothing. Those products would not have failed if they were not in Walmart because there are plenty of other outlets instead of just two.
- scarface74 6y ago
  So where else can toy manufacturers go in 2020 to sell their toys in retail? The music labels and movie studios knew they couldn’t be successful before digital without Walmart
  - wayneftw 6y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_superstores https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_superstores
    - scarface74 6y ago
      None of those other stores sell toys and a few are bankrupt in the US.
      - wayneftw 6y ago
        You couldn't me more wrong. Target? Best Buy? Costco? Amazon??? And the list doesn't end there - even Khol's sells toys - https://www.kohls.com/catalog/toys.jsp?CN=Department:Toys&searchTerm=toys&submit-search=web-regular https://www.kohls.com/catalog/toys.jsp?CN=Department:Toys&se... Try harder.
        scarface74 6y ago
        You can’t walk into an Amazon store and buy toys. Retail is still a lot larger than e-commerce especially for kids who like to browse. Kohl’s is tiny compared to Walmart and doing distribution only in Kohl’s is a non starter. Not to mention the catalog is online - not physical stores. Best Buy sells electronic games but there is far more to toys than that.
      - dragonwriter 6y ago
        > None of those other stores sell toys B&N, Target, Costco, IKEA, and a number of others on the list do, in fact, sell toys in their brick and mortar stores.