Wally World is all about the $$

by Miles , CIVITATES AMERICAE, Thursday, August 27, 2015, 14:20 (3380 days ago) @ Warhawk

They are the most computer controlled and tracked business that I know of.

Every SKU is tracked in Bentonville from the time it makes it off the truck into the warehouse until it's out the door sold.

Even if an item is being sold, if it doesn't meet the predicted sales quantity, it gets canned and something else takes the floor space. And that's on a store by store as well as a corporate basis.

Their buyers are hard cases who will demand manufacturer's make a product line to WW's standards and price it at the point that WM wants.

Remember Herman Survivor Boots? They were a family owned business that WW wanted on their shelves, but the company wouldn't price their U.S. made boots low enough for WW.

WW wanted to sell the boots so much, because of their reputation, that they finally bought the company and promptly moved manufacturing to China. And many WWs don't even carry the brand today.

Any PC statements read from their PR department are simply theatrics for political consumption. WW closed out the AR lines because the - current - mad dash rush demand for them has died down to the point where they aren't moving enough of them to meet the computer model.