“What you get at Wally is not the same product as what you get at the dealers.”
It most certainly is the same. There is not one name brand supplier for Walmart and one for everyone else. They all buy the very same merchandise. Walmart just buys a whole lot more and gets better prices. And yes, some products are duds even at the dealers.
Did you even bother to read the article I linked? I think that man knows what he’s talking about. I mean the man in the article was CEO of Simplicity Mowers. He goes into detail about the difference. With Wally you get Rivets instead of nuts and bolts and machines with no grease fittings, lighter gage metal ETC.