Well, more power to them! Where you shop is a choice. Don’t like great value? Don’t shop there.
Cindie
I shop Walmart and find everything I have tried of Great Value no different then name brand but for less. In fact I like the Great Value provolone sliced cheese better then Sargento which adds smoke to theirs.
Walmart is closer to me plus their prices are quite a bit cheaper then the local chain who bought out Albertson’s here. They are a little cheaper then the Target Super Store which is across town.
Use a local meat market for most meats. What Walmart has done is try to buy from local suppliers near their stores to cut costs. Walmart has improved here dramatically over the years and our stores are always very clean which is not the case when I have visited some of their stores in CA. But then here in OK, Walmart is not used as a babysitter.
Well, more power to them! Where you shop is a choice. Don’t like great value? Don’t shop there.
And there is the marketing problem that Walmart has created for itself -- just what you said... :-)
You see..., other major chains and big stores (like Walmart) will carry their "off-brand label" product along with the name brand product. That keeps their customers "in the store" -- with either choice... the off-brand or the name-brand.
BUT..., here we see that Walmart has decided to eliminate some name-brand products on their shelves for the off-brand -- only. Now... what that does is that it no longer keeps the customer in their own store with a "choice" -- but that drives their customer "out of the store" to Walmart's competitor -- in order to exercise their "choice".
So, yes, the customer does have a choice, but Walmart just ended up driving a lot of their customers to Walmart's competitors in order to "exercise that choice" that you're talking about.
Now, that's what I call a "dumb marketing decision" by Walmart... LOL...