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Originally posted by: Bossk
Plus they bully their suppliers into submission by offering them such immense distribution deals that would help get their name out, but they are then forced to drop their prices to whatever Wal Mart dictates. They get more exposure but lose money. It's a "damned if you do; damned if you don't" situation. For example, Vlassic pickles was about to go under recently. So they sought out Wal Mart to help them out. Wal Mart forced them to start packaging their pickles in big gallon jugs instead of the traditional smaller jars that Vlassic always sold them in. Wal Mart would then sell these jugs for $2.99 each. When all was said and done, Vlassic made only 3 cents per jar of pickles sold. Some deal, eh?
There's this huge supermarket chain here, like Walmart but more diverse (they own like, 4 different supermarket chains), they do the same thing to their suppliers, they practically extort them the same way wallmart does. I know because I used to work for them, I worked at their B2C department for 2 and a half years, and they also treated they employees like garbage. They had all those "life quality" programs, but they underpayed, made the employees work like mules and if any of them complained, they said "well there's someone unemploied who wants your job for half what you get, so shut up", and the management was so freaking dumb! Like the boss in "Dilbert", only dumber...