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Re: What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers' Habits

Dave VanHorn (dvanhorn@cedar.net)
Sat, 20 Nov 2004 18:42:27 -0500

>> Other stores can stay in business, but only in little tiny niches. No
>> one can compete with Walmart. A new move by Walmart will leave
>> merchandise in the inventory of the supplier until it is sold. $60
>> billion will disappear from Walmart books. This would really be "just
>> in time". It would never belong to Walmart. It would be sold
>> directly from the distributor to the consumer at the Walmart checkout.

> So they're acting as a consignment vendor. How interesting.

What a clever way to deal with theft!

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I have an interesting question. Someone
gets caught shoplifting at Walmart. It happens here several times per
week here, according to the police activities column in the
Independence Daily Reporter newspaper. Walmart always prosecutes,
but in these cases, how can Walmart prosecute for something that was
not stolen from them since they did not 'own' it at that point in
time (if they ever do, or do they merely act as collection agents for
the owner, which is vender who supplied it?). Or do the venders
authorize Walmart to act as their agent in such cases? I did not
steal from Walmart, I stole from the vender, is that not correct?
Advice, anyone? PAT]

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