One more reason out of the huge laundry list of reasons on why you shouldn’t support Walmart
wastingtoomuchthyme on
I’ll add that to the growing list of why I don’t go to Walmart..
SnooBunnies4649 on
Lawsuit needs to be made
No-Ad-4142 on
The digital tags are hard to read and I am not a senior citizen….
MDWST-RBLL on
That’s so they can lower the prices faster, right? RIGHT?
ScooterWorm on
Stopped shopping there years ago. This is just one more reason to never return.
Q-ArtsMedia on
Aaaaand the end of my shopping at wally world.
soyouwantausername on
I can see how this decision was made corporately. The amount of cost for labor to have shelves stickered and reset correctly is both high, and unreliable when executed. Likewise, there’s likely a lesser but still material cost tied to incorrect price matches at the register or unproductive store footprints due to poor merchandising (physically setting the price on a shelf). This also likely enables faster resets and ease to promote if a supplier feels like extending a discount on their products to incent the consumer – think like a coupon that can get flipped on instantly like on Amazon – brands will want to pay for that (and let’s be real, Walmart will make them pay for it).
Fear mongering about price gauging aside, this is a real operational efficiency that when multiplied across their footprint is material savings to their operations. Will this replace some people’s jobs? Maybe. Will this check one critical but menial task off a growing list of shit that underpaid employees that have very little market competition for their jobs don’t want to do/dont don’t do well? 1,000%.
It’s good to be cautious and critical of large multinational corporations like Walmart, but having called on Walmart as a brand before, they take seriously everyday low prices to consumers, and are very very very very very good at making their margins up on the vendor side (product cost/vendor investments) and not on the consumer margin side.
I should also add that this is basically the norm for most retailers outside the US in places like the UK and EU.
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One more reason out of the huge laundry list of reasons on why you shouldn’t support Walmart
I’ll add that to the growing list of why I don’t go to Walmart..
Lawsuit needs to be made
The digital tags are hard to read and I am not a senior citizen….
That’s so they can lower the prices faster, right? RIGHT?
Stopped shopping there years ago. This is just one more reason to never return.
Aaaaand the end of my shopping at wally world.
I can see how this decision was made corporately. The amount of cost for labor to have shelves stickered and reset correctly is both high, and unreliable when executed. Likewise, there’s likely a lesser but still material cost tied to incorrect price matches at the register or unproductive store footprints due to poor merchandising (physically setting the price on a shelf). This also likely enables faster resets and ease to promote if a supplier feels like extending a discount on their products to incent the consumer – think like a coupon that can get flipped on instantly like on Amazon – brands will want to pay for that (and let’s be real, Walmart will make them pay for it).
Fear mongering about price gauging aside, this is a real operational efficiency that when multiplied across their footprint is material savings to their operations. Will this replace some people’s jobs? Maybe. Will this check one critical but menial task off a growing list of shit that underpaid employees that have very little market competition for their jobs don’t want to do/dont don’t do well? 1,000%.
It’s good to be cautious and critical of large multinational corporations like Walmart, but having called on Walmart as a brand before, they take seriously everyday low prices to consumers, and are very very very very very good at making their margins up on the vendor side (product cost/vendor investments) and not on the consumer margin side.
I should also add that this is basically the norm for most retailers outside the US in places like the UK and EU.