I have little shopping choice as there is only one other grocery store in my town and WM is the one most convenient to me.
I buy meat at a meat market.
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"... :-)