bigpoppachump
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The wrigleys issue is pretty fucked up once you know the inside details about it. Walmart orders a huge amount of product from wrigleys with pretty much everyone at the top level knowing they won't sell near that amount. They try and negotiate the overall order down in size but the walmart purchasing agents won't budge on the number and if wrigleys doesn't meet that demand they are threatened with being dropped from walmarts shelves. They supply the astronomical number to walmart knowing they will get the call one day that they are sending half of it back. And they are the one company that wrigleys supplies to that comes in and does on site inspections of their processes and nitpicks how they want wrigleys to run and to do things a certain way or else meanwhile wrigleys plants are some of the cleanest and well maintained you've ever seen. Walmart is a huge corporate bully who needs to be knocked down a rung or two
What irks the shit out of me about it is walmart sells stuff for a set price and then when they demand unreasonable discounts from their suppliers and they agree to it the prices stay the same on the shelves.
And then you have the great value brands that walmart deliberately rips off recipes and other things to put out an identical product for 30% less than their suppliers. So you supply to this giant, get knocked in the ass on prices and then a year later they also become your biggest competitor by introducing an identical product that was developed by copying your own products.
What irks the shit out of me about it is walmart sells stuff for a set price and then when they demand unreasonable discounts from their suppliers and they agree to it the prices stay the same on the shelves.
And then you have the great value brands that walmart deliberately rips off recipes and other things to put out an identical product for 30% less than their suppliers. So you supply to this giant, get knocked in the ass on prices and then a year later they also become your biggest competitor by introducing an identical product that was developed by copying your own products.
