As much as I loathe Wal-Mart...

[Misundaztood]

...they've got some decent deals. I bought The Wraith dvd today for $5.35 before I clocked in.

If you've never heard of it, shame on you!

 

[Defiant]

I do most of my real-world shopping there. But it _is_ a serious problem. Look into the Vlasic Pickle story sometime.

 

[Isotta91]

hell yea, wal*mart has great deals on videos/dvds all the time. i comb the sale bins for a good half hour, u never know what your gonna find in there. last week i picked up Airheads. i'm still on the hunt for CB4 (Cell Block 4). great chris rock movie if any of ya heard of it.

 

[Toshiro]

Originally posted by Defiant
Look into the Vlasic Pickle story sometime.

I did a quick google search, found this:

Vlasic Pickles was roped into a contract with Wal-Mart, in which Wal-Mart sold a 3 gallon jar of whole pickles for $2.97. Wal-Mart sold 240,000 gallons of pickles per week. But the price of the 3 gallon jar was so low, that it vastly undercut Vlasic's sales of 8 ounce and 16 ounce jars of cut pickles; further, Vlasic only made a few pennies per 3 gallon jar. With its profits tumbling, Vlasic asked Wal-Mart for the right to raise the price per 3 gallon jar to $3.49, and according to a Vlasic executive, Wal-Mart threatened that if Vlasic tried to back out of this feature of the contract, Wal-Mart would cease carrying any Vlasic product. Eventually, a Wal-Mart executive said, "Well, we've done to pickles what we did to orange juice. We've killed it"—meaning it had wiped out competitor products. Finally, it allowed Vlasic to raise prices; but in January 2001, Vlasic filed for bankruptcy.

Wal-Mart is kinda scary in the way that it devours so many businesses and takes jobs away from Americans and gives them to sweat shops and such. :thumbdown

 

[-GSX-Falcon]

Vlasic Pickles was roped into a contract with Wal-Mart, in which Wal-Mart sold a 3 gallon jar of whole pickles for $2.97. Wal-Mart sold 240,000 gallons of pickles per week. But the price of the 3 gallon jar was so low, that it vastly undercut Vlasic's sales of 8 ounce and 16 ounce jars of cut pickles; further, Vlasic only made a few pennies per 3 gallon jar. With its profits tumbling, Vlasic asked Wal-Mart for the right to raise the price per 3 gallon jar to $3.49, and according to a Vlasic executive, Wal-Mart threatened that if Vlasic tried to back out of this feature of the contract, Wal-Mart would cease carrying any Vlasic product. Eventually, a Wal-Mart executive said, "Well, we've done to pickles what we did to orange juice. We've killed it"—meaning it had wiped out competitor products. Finally, it allowed Vlasic to raise prices; but in January 2001, Vlasic filed for bankruptcy.

I would consider that Vlasic's own stupid fault. Apparently they agreed upon that price and signed a contract stating they would sell it at that price. Why would you sign something knowing you wont make any money off the deal, especially if you had smaller jars almost the same price?

 

[PsSsShTGSX]

i think the walmart employees take all the good shit before the customers can get to it. check this site. http://www.walmartsucks.com/

 

[wastefuldreamer]

Its funny that there is actually a forum for that with 4000 members

 

[Violater101]

Guess I need to go an see if they have a copy of the Wraith locally. That movie Rules! ...."You lose the race, you lose your car!"