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Boston Bombing Suspects Planned July 4th Attacks, Were Inspired by Al-Awlaki

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)5/03/2013 8:55:19 am PDT

re: #312 FemNaziBitch

I’ve known a few salesmen who have called on Walmart. They say they have to cheapen the product to meet Walmart demands. Many walk away from millions of potential business. From what I understand the whole buying process is bizarre.

They have enormous power in dictating to other businesses the price they’ll pay for their products. This is their main business model— by having such a larger market, every manufacturer wants to put product through them, and so will accept a smaller profit margin than they will with other retailers. However, this leads to the customer paying for an inferior product often without knowing it’s inferior, or having the ability to really analyze whether buying the shitty $30 levis from Wal-Mart is actually a better expenditure than the $60 real Levis. The real ones may last three times as long, and so be a better purchase, but the average consumer doesn’t have the time or resources to do that sort of research and Wal-Mart knows it.