Reply #80: Wal-Mart doesn't have the scale to buy at discount [View All]

[OldSoldier]

They have the scale to dictate prices to their suppliers.

If you start supplying Wal-Mart, be prepared to have Wal-Mart's people crawl all over your operation looking for places you can cut expenses so that you can "afford" to charge what Wal-Mart wants to pay.

I know they do primary-source management (on a Stanley tape measure, Stanley is primary source), but am not sure about secondary-source management (if Rohm + Haas made the plastic Stanley makes its tape measures from, R+H is secondary source). It wouldn't be surprising, though.