If Walmart can't buy it at the price they want, they don't carry it. They are so big it really hurts a company if their products aren't sold at WM.
That's a two-edged sword... :-)
Let me tell you what's going to hurt Walmart. If a consumer can't find their product on the shelf of Walmart, then they are going to go looking for it elsewhere.
Now, someone else here on this thread posted that sometimes Walmart discontinues an item for a couple of months or more (he was hinting, I think, that it was a negotiatig tactic). Now, that may be so -- but I'll tell you that if my product is off the shelf for a couple of months -- I'm going somewhere else... LOL...
That cuts both ways with Walmart.
And if Walmart starts eliminating a whole slew of name-brand stuff and only carries their own "off-label" and I can't get my stuff there -- it will be "audios to Walmart"... :-)
Interesting post...I used to love shopping for my groceries there, it was cheaper by a mile. However they remodeled the store about 6 months ago, and after that the selection changed substantially. Off the top of my head I can think of about a dozen products I like and used to purchase there that they quit carrying. Some of them weren’t even replaced by Walmart brands, they just didnt have enought room on the shelves to squeeze them in. I just quit going, it wasn’t worth having to go there and then to Publix to get the other stuff I like. Oh well its not anything I’ve even complained to my wife about..Walmart is smart, if their crap don’t sell, they will replace it.
This is true....and they usually win because they are so big. Can you imagine the impact on a company if they lose Walmart's account?
I think they move everything around every night at My WM so you find 10 things you don't need while trying to find the thing you were looking for.
I've heard they set the thermostats in their stores from Bentonville.