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How Wal-Mart keeps prices low, even while prices everywhere rise

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With gas, grain, and dairy prices exploding, you'd think the biggest seller of corn flakes and Cocoa Puffs would be getting hit by rising food costs. But Wal-Mart has temporarily rolled back prices on hundreds of food items by as much as 30% this year. How? By pressuring vendors to take costs out of the supply chain...

1. Shrink the goods
2. Cut out the middleman
3. Go locovore

Is this cutthroat capitalism at its worst or an attempt to help consumers deal with rising prices?
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1 response // How Wal-Mart keeps prices low, even while prices everywhere rise

  • "Foodmakers love big boxes because they serve as billboards on store shelves."

    This makes so much sense! It just never occurred to me before!
    Elligirl

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