John Oliver said:
> On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 05:05:14PM -0700, Todd Walton wrote:
>> I bought a damned good quality set of bookshelves from WalMart a
>> while
>> back. I went back to buy more and they had switched suppliers for
>> the
>> same product. I bought one anyway, and it turned out to be crap. I
>> wrote WalMart and complained, and they canned the crap supplier. I
>> like WalMart. There are a lot of things that I don't need to be
>> quality, that I'd prefer rock-bottom prices on, and WalMart provides
>> that. I'm amazed at the cheap stuff I can get there.
>
> This was a real eye-opener for me:
>
> http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html
>
Yep, WalMart customers know the cost of everything and the value of
nothing.
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