Just bought some Watkins vanilla at Walmart and btw they also have McCormicks. Also, have tried the Great Value low fat milk and have no problem with the flavor.
America still practices free enterprise (despite Obama and govt regulations up the ying yang) and to those that do not want to shop or work at Walmart...go elsewhere. Walmart is union free and provides alot of jobs, taxes, charitable contributions to this country and NO! I am not a Walmart greeter.
Just bought some Watkins vanilla at Walmart and btw they also have McCormicks.
Note that this particular article was over two months ago. And as another FReeper said here on this thread, Walmart will discontinue something for a while and then maybe later bring it back again in a couple of months or longer. He said it was a negotiating practice.
However, my response to that, basically (in so many words) that they can't expect the consumer to "stick around" with the product that they want -- not being on Walmart's shelves. All that does is drive the Walmart customer to a competitor of Walmart to get the product that they want.
And..., I've seen that myself and I've gone to Walmart's competitors, sometimes never having been in some of the other places before, and finding out that they've got some good products there, that I want to come back and get from them, too. That ends up being lost business for Walmart (at least it has from my own experience...).
The fact that Walmart is dropping name-brand products and keeping their own "off-label" product is beyond disputing, as it's been reported on the news, is in the Ad Age publication (and other sources that I haven't brought here, but that I've read).
It is happening. And what that means is that for those customers who want the name-brand product and not the "off-label" brand of Walmart's -- they are going to be driven to the competitor of Walmart -- which is an extremely stupid move on behalf of Walmart... :-)