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Walmart forces manufacturers to sell them items at fixed priced points. To the point they extort manufacturers to hand over bill of materials and demand certain
by delfinom 6y ago
Walmart forces manufacturers to sell them items at fixed priced points. To the point they extort manufacturers to hand over bill of materials and demand certain prices or face repercussions, they are in very much worse than Amazon and literally run like a mafia.
The end result is manufacturers make separate SKUs of the same product especially corner-cut just for Walmart.
- gruez 6y ago>they are in very much worse than Amazon and literally run like a mafia ...except that you can refuse to do business with them and they're not going to kneecap you or burn down your business
- CamperBob2 6y agoArguably they do 'burn down' small local businesses through aggressive price-cutting competition and supplier relationships, which a lot of people object to. I'm not among those complainers, having grown up in a small town where you couldn't get anything without mail-ordering it until Wal-Mart came in. But I could certainly be swayed to their point of view if Wal-Mart starts selling counterfeit or extremely low-grade crap like the rope ericbarrett purchased.