But as far as food goes not unusal for a store to have their own brands.
I am not a wal mart shopper as do not need to buy in bulk and hate "warehouse" size stores. I buy local from farmers, I spend locally when I can outside of my addiction to a Starbucks product I can't get anywhere else or a in frequent visits to Barnes & Noble (do not like Borders) or the local bookstore/coffee shop filled with "Don't Shop at Wal Mart" liberals (yes they had a sign related to such in front of their store a couple summers ago). The same owner runs the library but could not put that sign in front of the public library but could her bookstore. Enough said.
Wal*mart made it easy to order on line and pick up at the store, families with children appreciate the bargains. The grocery store itself is ranked in the 50's in popularity/quality etc with Whole Foods, Hannafords in the top 15.
It's a free country, so shop where you want. If people were not treated fairly and with friendly service, they would not be shopping there and as a result; keeping the stock at an ongoing high (mol).
If people were not treated fairly and with friendly service, they would not be shopping there...
That may not have a thing to do with driving off some Walmart customers... I think it's going to have to do with finding the exact product that you want. At least it seems that way for me in some cases. And, according to the article writer, that way for her, too.
And that's the biggest problem that Walmart will have created for itself, in that they will end up driving some customers to other retail outlets that they may end up losing to those other retail locatoins.
If they hadn't made this kind of move, they may have never caused these people to "go looking" in the first place... :-)