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Sic Semper Goon posted:Walmart has a reputation beyond "Lowest Common Denominator"? Lowest common denominator that doesn't actively kill their customers, yeah. They sell cheap rear end poo poo but they have a large and active PR department and underestimating Bentonville is not a smart idea.
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I'm going to be circumspect because if I gave details I'd out myself. The company I worked for a few years back had a perfectly functional widget that did its job properly and we felt quite well. It was sold at Sam's Club (Walmart Costco) for years with no issues. One day, papa Walton decided to either standardize pallet sizes or hold us to the existing standard, and we had to redesign our product so it fit within an x by y box. This was a huge loving deal because our widget was large by definition and a shitload of engineering went into turning one frame piece into two with the same structural rigidity. Walmart is the best and worst thing that can happen to a widget maker. If you make it onto Walmart shelves, you are loving golden for sales (if your widget is a piece of poo poo that wouldn't sell anyway, you didn't make it to this point). Once your company depends on Walmart sales to survive, you get bent over by Bentonville; make it cheaper, ship less of them this quarter (oops your manufacturing chain already has too many coming out, get hosed), or in our case reengineer the whole loving thing.
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:Investing, frugal saving, and the other means of generating wealth from capital are all fine and good. But those strategies only matter if you have a lot of capital. To get that egg started; enter a profession with high compensation. Finance, Business, Management, and Medicine. Step 1: Go back in time and get a medical degree.
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