WalMart DC's.... ALL OF THEM

I heard something once, and I'm 59.564% sure it was just a tall-tale, ... but I'll repeat it anyway because I'm a truck driver and repeating rumors is the only thing truck drivers are good at, (according to my boss) LOL....

The unsubstantiated rumor of questionable merit is that Walmart allegedly uses their might to bully their suppliers into selling their products to them at prices so low there's little or no profit. So whenever these suppliers have a batch of product that there's something wrong with, they ship it to Walmart.

An example would be a supplier of, .. let's say, ... apples grown in Washington state. The quality of their apples is pretty much the same, but whenever they have a situation like a reefer trailer is on their lot and runs out of fuel and nobody notices it for 8 hours, ... those apples would get put into a Walmart shipment because they can't afford to provide nothing but the best for their OTHER customers who actually pay them a fair price.

Again, .. that's just a rumor and that "example" is totally made up just as an example.

 

That much at least is true.

They were the undoing of Cannon-Fieldcrest, who refused to offshore to meet their ridiculous margins.

 

There was a lawn mower manufacturer that refused to lower their standards for mallwart. They couldn't produce the quality for what mallwart was willing to pay, so the story goes, I believe it was the CEO/Owner/President or something told mallwart to shove it. I can't remember the company. If I could, I'd be tempted to buy a mower whether I needed or not.

 

yep I would imagine pretty much all of them suck.......coming from someone who was in management for them in a less than stellar period of my life at DC6015/6014 in Laurens SC.....

unspoken company policy is that they don't give a #### about drivers unless the truck has mallwart on the side of it.....pretty much the same way as they feel about their vendors/suppliers......mallwart way or no way at all their rules or they don't do business with you.....and from what I see here on this post and another one or two of them floating around the forum......nothing has changed since i was there.....

i dread the day i get a load going to 6015/6014......when they see it's me there's no telling what kind of hoops i'll have to jump through to get in and out of there lol.....i know i went down on some kind of blacklist there for the things i pointed out in my 3 page resignation letter when i left and they never forget someone who quits.....the mentality is 'how DARE you quit us" lol......

the contract and transfer stations aren't as bad though.....we do several of them and it's mostly drop and hook in and out.....but the mainline dc's are something i hope i never have to go in to......having been there done that from the other side of the dock, i sure don't want to be a driver on the outside of the dock lol

i still, to this day 15 years later, will go across town just so i don't have to shop there

 

I heard the exact same thing about Rubbermaid (or maybe it was Tupperware, I get those two confused.) Anyway the deal was Walmart demanded they sell them their products for BELOW what it cost to manufacture, so they told Walmart to go F themselves (in more ... professional terms than that I'm sure) and the person telling me this story said that you can not find Rubbermaid (or Tupperware) products at Walmart.

But the very next time I was in a Walmart, just out of curiosity I walked around until I found products made by both Rubbermaid and Tupperware, officially "debunking" the rumor.

 

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/102/open_snapper.html

It was Snapper.

 

Walmart KILLED Rubbermaid:

Link: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2003-01-28-walmartnation_x.htm

 

Does anybody have any comments about delivering to Walmart DC #7033 Apple Valley, Ca?, -or have any problems with the yard drivers that work there?

 

Thankyou, I've read that article a number of times, and I'd still like to shake Wiers hand. Big business guy with a conscience.

 

apple valley was good to me, but that was several years ago