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Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
You know damn well if the customer needs a plastic container and they're at walmart they'll buy whatever's there. They're not going to comparison shop or check the net for a plastic container.
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If the customer cares so little about the brand of plastic container they buy that they'll just go get whatever is at Wal-Mart, then it sounds like Wal-Mart is doing them a favor by finding the most economic alternative, and then getting the best deal they can for that product.
Kinda like the whole generic drug situation. Many patients don't know there are generic equivalents to name-brand drugs, so they pay out the nose for the exact same thing in a different package. If Kupperware is almost as good as the "real" thing, at half the price, please explain to me again how the consumers are harmed.
So what about those two people in that small town, who absolutely demand Tupperware? Before, they could go to Mom 'n' Pop's grocery store and get it, and now they can't because Wal Mart drove them out. The reason that Mom 'n' Pop were driven out is that
most people liked Wal Mart better. Wal Mart has no power except what they're given by consumers, conspiracy theories aside. Those consumers decided they didn't want to subsidize those two people who want name-brand Tupperware.
The market has spoken.