On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 12:14:59 -0500, Jack wrote:



No one is forced to supply Walmart and I am not forced to buy from
Walmart. Walmart MUST pay what the suppler demands and the supplier
must charge what Walmart is willing to pay. Otherwise, no deal is made.

I buy mostly at Sams club, it's generally cheaper than Walmart.

The cheapest I could find my Sony earphones was thru Walmart on line,
so, that's where I bought them. I was a happy camper, and bought 2 of
them. I don't know if Walmart, their supplier, or the manufacturer was
happy, I know I was OK with it. I'll let you lose sleep over the rest
of it.

(Posted at end of a zillion lines of extraneous un-snipped text to
conform to ignorance level of previous poster[s])
Not true. A supplier works hard to get on WalMart's supplier list
because it means VOLUME - so after they get on, Walmart whores there
product out at cost or below as a loss leader (think Vladic Pickles)
and they only want the large size - so the supplier switches their
production over to the big bottles and produces at full capacity to
supply WalMart - and is unable to keep up with some of their smaller
accounts who traditionally sold the smaller bottles. After a year or
two, Walmart decides they need a lower price and tells the supplier,
drop the price to $x or no deal. By this point, the supplier needs
walmart more than walmart needs the supplier, because they have lost
their other sales - partly through lack of capacity, but moreso from
people seeing the brand as a "discouint " brand and being unwilling to
buy from the other dealers at the price they need to get to stay alive
- so the supplier drops the price - and eventually almost goes
bankrupt.

see: https://www.fastcompany.com/47593/wa...-you-dont-know

They almost took down a major shoe company as well - strikes me it was
RedWing, but I'm not sure.