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<blockquote data-quote="MadDogs" data-source="post: 1345400" data-attributes="member: 11175">Lot of people bad mouth Walmart.&nbsp; Give me a business reason to not like Walmart and I will but so far (and I don&#039;t work for them) I can&#039;t come up with one.&nbsp; You go to Walmart to make a presentation to sell your product; they ask you what you are doing to make the planet better and what you can do through product, price and promotion to make their customers happier.&nbsp; If they take your product, they will tell you up front that they do not want to represent more than 35% of your total business BECAUSE if something goes wrong, they don&#039;t want you to have all your eggs in their proverbial basket.&nbsp; When they take your product on, they will take a markup that is usually somewhere between 14%-25%.&nbsp; Other retailers?&nbsp; They charge you to put product on their shelves (Safeway charges up to $1m per item) AND then they mark it upwards of 40%-50%.&nbsp; If that wasnt bad enough, to keep your product on the shelf you need to promote it and to do that, they will charge you ten grand for a two inch by two inch add in their weekly store ad.&nbsp; &nbsp; Does Walmart put people out of business that competes with them?&nbsp; ONLY if the competition is not smart enough to compete with them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MadDogs, post: 1345400, member: 11175"] Lot of people bad mouth Walmart. Give me a business reason to not like Walmart and I will but so far (and I don't work for them) I can't come up with one. You go to Walmart to make a presentation to sell your product; they ask you what you are doing to make the planet better and what you can do through product, price and promotion to make their customers happier. If they take your product, they will tell you up front that they do not want to represent more than 35% of your total business BECAUSE if something goes wrong, they don't want you to have all your eggs in their proverbial basket. When they take your product on, they will take a markup that is usually somewhere between 14%-25%. Other retailers? They charge you to put product on their shelves (Safeway charges up to $1m per item) AND then they mark it upwards of 40%-50%. If that wasnt bad enough, to keep your product on the shelf you need to promote it and to do that, they will charge you ten grand for a two inch by two inch add in their weekly store ad. Does Walmart put people out of business that competes with them? ONLY if the competition is not smart enough to compete with them. [/QUOTE]

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