Wal-mart prices?

Question

If prices at Wal-Mart keep going down everyday...why isnt anything free yet?

Answer 1

because by the time they squeeze their vendors for every last penny off their purchase price, their vendor just tells them to go screw or goes out of business and they stop carrying the product and replace it with something else.

Answer 2

They tell you when prices go down, they don't tell you when they go up. On some items (ie. vacuum cleaners) the price goes down and down and down again on others it goes up. In general Wal-Mart lowers the cost of food in an area by like 10 or 20 percent when they add a suppercenter to a town. The price depends on how much Wal-Mart gets charged for the stuff they sell, how fast if moves off the shelf, and the quantity that gets thrown out or clearanced. They keep their mark up very low. If you go to the Forbes Lists you can see that Wal-Mart does not make as much money on each dollar of sales as other companies do. Microsoft is 8 times more profitable per dollar of sales as Wal-Mart. Even a big old manufacturer like GE makes more money on sales than Wal-Mart. Some companies even have higher total profits than Wal-Mart even though Wal-Mart out sells everyone except exon-mobile.

Answer 3

That's not original material, is it? ( Har. ) The best things in life are still very much free. I suppose it comes down to how many can brag to the other half how much of their stuff came out of an expensive box.

I'll have to agree with a comic who once said not to spend a lot on gift toys for kids. No matter what it cost, they'll just wind up playing with the box it came in.

Sounds fair. So get ahead of yourself. Go to a cardboard place and ask the man for the largest box they've got. Then really splurge and get the kid a huge, 64 piece Crayola deluxe box of crayons!!!

I'd like to say I miss that sense of imagination, but as long as there's a kid on the planet, real or in principle, this'll always be the case.

Answer 4

It is a matter of financial relativity. WalMart prices claim to be going down everyday. That is not to say every ITEM is going down everyday. With as many items as they carry, they can afford to reduce 'a' price every day. Furthermore, their claim can be substantiated using the inflationary index. If the rate of inflation is 6%, and WalMart actually increases a price by 4%, they can still claim with a degree of legitimacy that their prices are falling because it is relative to the purchase power of the dollar.

Not sure if all that makes any sense but I wanted to get my two points for answering! =D

Answer 5

Because they lower it just enough to make it look like a good buy. If you're going to complain about Wal-Mart, go to a thrift store, or Salvation Army or DAV!

Answer 6

Ah... good point. I worked at a retail outlet that sometimes when a thing was on sale, it was more expensive or the same price as it's everyday price. I assume Walmart does this too.

Answer 7

Because that is a gimick to get people to go and buy stuff at wall-mart just like them saying we sell for less but h-e-b is cheaper

Answer 8

When they drop the price on one thing and feature it, they raise the price on something else in the store. Sneaky sneaky.

Answer 9

They have big clearance sales and get rid of stuff too cheap. And if you look at their milk prices, that is one that they have not yet rolled back.

Answer 10

Actually I've notices their prices are going up.