Is Walmart wiping out the supply of Supertech filters?

[Ray H]

WalMart managers are under the gun to maximize profits. Unsold product taking up shelf space costs money. If a particular brand (including the "house" brand) does not sell well in a particular area, its shelf space will be surrendered to a product that does sell well. WalMart bashers can allege what they will about WalMart's sins of commission or ommission, but that retailer's business model works. Just ask K-mart, Sears, and Target.

 

[Triple_Se7en]

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Originally posted by Filter guy:
Each Walmart store is an independant profit center. The store manager can determine what products "better" fill the shelf space.

After all Super Tech doesn't say "Walmart" on the filter..

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What other store besides WalMart sells Super Tech merchandise?

Go call a midwest regional office & tell then you are a manager at a singular Detroit-area WalMart store. Tell them you are pulling Super Tech off your shelves -- while the other 5000 stores in America continue to stock them.

Then listen very closely as they tell you the ramifications from doing that.
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I'm stating all this on WalMart's ongoing policy to use Super Tech filters at their stores -- their home brand. If they are discontining the brand, then please disregard my post.

 

[jeepman]

There was another thread where someone reported that the ST filters were in a new box design with a lightning bolt or something. Maybe they are just thinning the herd to put the new ones in when they arrive.

http://theoildrop.server101.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=6;t=003569

 

[Filter guy]

Triple_Se7en

My ex-boss, who is retired, wife works at Walmart. She moved up the organizational chain and is now Co-store manager at a Walmart SuperCenter.

I know from where I speak...

 

[Triple_Se7en]

Yep... ask the manager. No sense guessing here.

 

[user00000]

Maybe this article offers insight into why they have pared the offering of oil/filter brands.

Wal-Mart inventory trims create headaches

"As Wal-Mart Stores Inc. looked across its operations recently to find ways of cutting costs, it found it had a problem that afflicts many businesses: too much inventory."

 

[Bamaro]

Well, if you have a WalMart without ST filters, ask the manager why and report back here.